Malcolm Wanklyn is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wolverhampton. A graduate of the University of Manchester, he was awarded a master's degree in 1966 for a study of the King's Armies in the West of England 1642-46 and a doctorate in 1976 for a thesis on taking sides in the First Civil War in Cheshire and Shropshire. Subsequently he managed the Port Book Programme at the University of Wolverhampton, which studied trade on the river Severn 1565-1765, and produced one of the first machine-readable databases of a very large historical source. From 1989 to 1998 he was head of the Department of History and War Studies at his university and then for four years the manager of research in the Humanities Faculty. Primarily a regional historian for the last twenty years of his full-time career, retirement gave him the chance to fulfil his ambition to write books on military history as follows: A Military History of the English Civil War ( with Frank Jones, Pearson, 2004); Decisive Battles of the English Civil Wars (Pen and Sword, 2006) and Warrior Generals (Yale, 2010). He has also published articles in War in History (2008), History (2011) and the Journal for Army Historical Research (2014). He serves on the Battlefields Panel of English Heritage, and is currently writing books on the history of the Welsh Borderland 1500 to the Present Day (with Kevin Down) and on deconstructing and reconstructing military stereotypes - Prince Rupert, the Earl of Manchester, Sir Thomas Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell and George Monck.