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Article

• Seligmann, M. S. (2010) A prelude to the reforms of Admiral Sir John Fisher: the creation of the Home Fleet, 1902-3 (The Julian Corbett Prize Essay for 2007). Historical Research. 83(221), pp. 506-519. 0950-3471.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2010) Intelligence information and the 1909 naval scare: the secret foundations of a public panic. War in History. 17(1), pp. 37-59. 0968-3445.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2009) Lieutenant-Colonel Delme-Radcliffe's report on the 1906 eruption of Vesuvius, Italy: some further comments and some corrections of an historical nature. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 179, pp. 270-271. 0377-0273.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2008) The alternatives to bombing Hiroshima were not morally superior. The Guardian.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2008) New weapons for new targets: Sir John Fisher, the threat from Germany, and the building of H.M.S. Dreadnought and H.M.S. Invincible, 1902-1907. International History Review. XXX(2), pp. 303-331. 0707-5332.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2008) Switching horses: the admiralty's recognition of the threat from Germany, 1900-1905. International History Review. XXX(2), pp. 239-258. 0707-5332.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2006) Hors de combat? The management, mismanagement and mutilation of the War Office Archive. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 84(337), pp. 52-58. 0037-9700.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2002) 'A barometer of national confidence': a British assessment of the role of insecurity in the formulation of German military policy before the First World War. The English Historical Review. 117(471), pp. 333-355. 1477-4534.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2002) German and British imperialism in comparative perspective (‘Deutscher und Britischer Imperialismus in vergleichender Perspektive’): Seminar at the Naturkundemuseum Coburg, 5-6 September 2001. German History: the Journal of the German History Society. 20(2), pp. 225-228. 0266-3554.

Book Section

• Seligmann, M. S. (2008) Prince Louis of Battenberg: the advantages and disadvantages of being a Serene Highness in the Royal Navy. In: Urbach, K. (ed.) Royal Kinship: Anglo-German Family Networks, 1815-1918. Munich, Germany: Saur Verlag. pp. 159-173.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2008) While I am in it I am not of it: a Naval attache's reflections on the conduct of British diplomacy and foreign policy, 1906-1908. In: Mosslang, M. and Riotte, T. (eds.) The Diplomats' World: A Cultural History of Diplomacy, 1815-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 433-460.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2007) Germany, the Russo-Japanese War and the road to the Great War. In: Kowner, R. (ed.) The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War. London: Routledge. pp. 109-123.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2003) Military diplomacy in a military monarchy? Wilhelm II's relations with the British service attaches in Berlin, 1903-1914. In: Mombauer, A. and Deist, W. (eds.) The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 176-194.

Book

• Seligmann, M. S. and Hughes, M. (2009) Losing the Peace: Failed Settlements and the Road to War. Stroud: The History Press. 9780752452388.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2007) Naval Intelligence from Germany: the Reports of the British Naval Attachés in Berlin, 1906-1914. Aldershot: Ashgate (for the Navy Records Society). 9780754661573.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2006) Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 0199261504.
• Seligmann, M. S., Davison, J. and McDonald, J. (2003) In the Shadow of the Swastika: Life in Germany under the Nazis, 1933-1945. Staplehurst: Spellmount. 1862272042.
• Hughes, M. and Seligmann, M. S. (2002) Does Peace Lead to War? Peace Settlements and Conflict in the Modern Age. Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd. 0750925140.

Conference or Workshop Item

• Seligmann, M. S. (2011) The Royal Navy and the German threat: the trade defence dimension. Paper presented to: The Fischer Controversy 50 Years On, German Historical Institute, London, 13-15 October 2011. (Unpublished)
• Seligmann, M. S. (2011) The Anglo-German naval race: from reality to myth and back again. Invited Presentation presented to: Reappraising the First World War Seminar Series: Britain, The First World War and Sea Power, Imperial War Museum, London, 2 June 2011. (Unpublished)
• Seligmann, M. S. (2010) Rum, sodomy, prayer and the lash revisited. Invited Presentation presented to: Houghtons and Brafield Local History Society, Northamptonshire, 14 April 2010. (Unpublished)
• Seligmann, M. S. (2010) Spies in uniform: British intelligence on Germany before WW1. Lecture presented to: Rugby Historical Association Meeting, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, 10 February 2010. (Unpublished)
• Seligmann, M. S. (2009) Intelligence information and the 1909 naval scare. Seminar Presentation presented to: University of Salford Intelligence History Seminar, University of Salford, 19 October 2009. (Unpublished)
• Seligmann, M. S. (2009) Commentary on 'Civil leadership in an age of popular wars'. Invited Presentation presented to: Bringing Personality Back in: Leadership and War - A British-German Comparison 1740-1945. 28th Prinz-Albert-Gesellschaft Conference, Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg, Germany, 11-12 September 2009. (Unpublished)
• Seligmann, M. S. (2009) Commentary on 'Constructions of military masculinity in reference to weapon systems'. Invited Presentation presented to: Myths, Gender and the Military Conquest of Air and Sea, University of Oldenburg, Germany, 22 - 25 April 2009. (Unpublished)
• Seligmann, M. S. (2009) Arthur Marder, the German threat and the origins of HMS Invincible revisited. Seminar Presentation presented to: International Commission for Maritime History Seminar, King's College, London, 26 February 2009. (Unpublished)
• Seligmann, M. S. (2008) Rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash revisited: Churchill's views on naval tradition contextualized. Seminar Presentation presented to: De Montford University History Research Seminar, De Montford University, Leicester, 10 December 2008. (Unpublished)
• Seligmann, M. S. (2008) The Treaty of Versailles. Lecture presented to: Dulwich College History Society, Dulwich College, London, 6 November 2008. (Unpublished)
• Seligmann, M. S. (2008) Total war. Lecture presented to: Contemporary Debates, University of Central England, Birmingham, 9 October 2008. (Unpublished)
• Seligmann, M. S. (2006) British intelligence in Germany before the First World War. Paper presented to: British Commission for Military History Spring Conference: Intelligence in Peace & War, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 06 May 2006. (Unpublished)
• Seligmann, M. S. (2005) The end of the Second World War in Europe. Paper presented to: British Commission for Military History Summer Conference: How Wars End, Joint Services Command and Staff College, 09-10 July 2005. (Unpublished)

Honorary role

• Seligmann, M. S. (2009) Member of Editorial Board. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge. 1469-0764.
• Seligmann, M. S. (2007) Council Member. Navy Records Society.

Other

• Seligmann, M. S. (2010) Russian espionage - radio interview for Radio Northampton. (Unpublished)