School of Social & Political Sciences

Dr Christopher Miller

  • Senior Lecturer in Business History & Strategy (Political & International Studies)

telephone: 01413302786
email: Christopher.Miller@glasgow.ac.uk

Centre for Business History in Scotland, 634 Gilbert Scott (Main Building), G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482

Biography

I am an historian of business-government relations in the twentieth century, particularly interested in wars, crises and technological development in Western Europe and America. I have mostly been working on the political economy of armaments manufacturing and related topics, though these interests have been broadening into adjacent areas - such as greening, pollution and the environment - in recent times. 

I was educated at the University of Oxford (Balliol College), and the University of Glasgow. I (re)joined Glasgow in 2016 after a predoctoral fellowship at Yale University, and a lectureship at the University of Tübingen in Germany. For six months in 2020 and 2021 I was a visiting Associate Professor within the University of Jyväskylä's Academy of Finland-funded Crises Research Centre, and in 2023 held a Lady Randolph Churchill visiting grant at Churchill College, Cambridge University.

Since 2018 I have been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. At Glasgow I am a member of both the Centre for Business History in Scotland (CBHS), and the Scottish Centre for War Studies (in the College of Arts and Humanities). 

Research interests

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 21.

2026

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482, Menning, Daniel and Telesca, Giuseppe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0153-2597 (2026) Crises in business history: re-ordering, evidence and the historian’s task. Business and Industrial History, (Accepted for Publication)

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2026) Between two worlds: Shipbuilding firms in the interwar years. In: Wilson, John F. (ed.) Management in Interwar Britain: Continuity and Change. Series: Routledge studies in management, organizations and society. Routledge, pp. 203-228. ISBN 9781041014720 (doi: 10.4324/9781003614913-9)

Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2026) A powerless elite? The British armaments sector in depression and rearmament, 1918-39. In: Fridenson, Patrick and Sogner, Knut (eds.) Business Elites and the Organization of Capitalism 1890-1945: Creators of Democracy, Captains of Industry, or Extractors of Value? Oxford University Press: Oxford. (In Press)

2025

Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482, King, Kiara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9644-8915, Mackenzie, Niall ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-7086, Perchard, Andrew, Turton, Alison, Pittaki, Zoi and Cassells, Christopher (2025) Whisky business: regulating and recording the whisky industry. Business and Industrial History, 34, pp. 5-8. (doi: 10.36399/BIH.34.593)

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482, Turnbull, Benjamin and Ojala, Jari (2025) Contractors to companies, inventors to industries: the rise of private armaments manufacturing, 1815–1914. In: Eloranta, Jari, Land, Jeremy, Kuorelahti, Elina and Fishback, Price (eds.) The Routledge Economic History of War. Routledge: London, pp. 270-295. ISBN 9781003275275

2023

Mackenzie, Niall G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-7086, Perchard, Andrew, Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 and Forbes, Neil (Eds.) (2023) Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. Routledge. ISBN 9781032369839

2022

Mackenzie, Niall ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-7086, Perchard, Andrew, Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 and Forbes, Neil (2022) Introduction: Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. In: Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. Routledge, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781032369839

2021

Mackenzie, Niall G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-7086, Perchard, Andrew, Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 and Forbes, Neil (2021) Business-government relations and national economic models: a review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond. Business History, 63(8), pp. 1239-1252. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2021.1924687)

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 and Murphy, Hugh (2021) Price collusion, rationalisation and admiralty oversight in British shipbuilding: the case of the Warship Group, 1926-1945. International Journal of Maritime History, 33(3), pp. 561-576. (doi: 10.1177/08438714211037692)

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2021) Warships After London: The end of the treaty era in the five major fleets, 1930–1936. Mariner's Mirror, 107(2), pp. 249-250. (doi: 10.1080/00253359.2021.1903753)[Book Review]

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2021) The Clydeside Cabal: the influence of Lord Weir, Sir James Lithgow, and Sir Andrew Rae Duncan on naval and defence policy, around 1918-1940. Mariner's Mirror, 107(3), pp. 338-357. (doi: 10.1080/00253359.2021.1948182)

2020

Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2020) Interwar pricefixing in naval shipbuilding. Navy Records Society, 4 Oct.

Heuser, Beatrice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2199-1857, Harding, Rebecca and Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2020) COVID-19: Policy-Options, Effects and Resulting Scenarios. Other. Coriolis Technologies.

2019

Stokes, Raymond G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8611-0566 and Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2019) Pollution and climate change. In: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Lubinski, Christina and Tworek, Heidi J.S. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge. ISBN 9781138242654

2018

Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2018) Planning and Profits: British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941. Series: Research in maritime history (53). Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781786940667 (doi: 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940667.001.0001)

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2018) Review of: Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke and Jeffrey Gale Williamson, eds., The spread of modern industry to the periphery since 1871. Oxford, 2017. Economic History Review, 71(1), pp. 360-361. (doi: 10.1111/ehr.12685)[Book Review]

2017

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2017) Extraordinary Gentlemen: the Economic League, business networks, and organised labour in war planning and rearmament. Scottish Labour History, 52, pp. 120-151.

2016

Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2016) British naval armaments, cartels, and defence planning between the world wars. Entreprises et histoire, 85(1), pp. 70-87.

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2016) Titipu on the Thames. In: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Scottish Opera, pp. 22-25.

Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2016) Review of: Beaven, Brad: Visions of Empire. Patriotism, Popular Culture and the City, 1870–1939. Manchester 2012. H-Soz-u-Kult, [Book Review]

2012

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2012) Forward to obscurity? Another dimension to the decline of the radical left on 1930s Clydeside. Scottish Labour History, 47, pp. 91-109.

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Articles

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482, Menning, Daniel and Telesca, Giuseppe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0153-2597 (2026) Crises in business history: re-ordering, evidence and the historian’s task. Business and Industrial History, (Accepted for Publication)

Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482, King, Kiara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9644-8915, Mackenzie, Niall ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-7086, Perchard, Andrew, Turton, Alison, Pittaki, Zoi and Cassells, Christopher (2025) Whisky business: regulating and recording the whisky industry. Business and Industrial History, 34, pp. 5-8. (doi: 10.36399/BIH.34.593)

Mackenzie, Niall G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-7086, Perchard, Andrew, Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 and Forbes, Neil (2021) Business-government relations and national economic models: a review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond. Business History, 63(8), pp. 1239-1252. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2021.1924687)

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 and Murphy, Hugh (2021) Price collusion, rationalisation and admiralty oversight in British shipbuilding: the case of the Warship Group, 1926-1945. International Journal of Maritime History, 33(3), pp. 561-576. (doi: 10.1177/08438714211037692)

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2021) The Clydeside Cabal: the influence of Lord Weir, Sir James Lithgow, and Sir Andrew Rae Duncan on naval and defence policy, around 1918-1940. Mariner's Mirror, 107(3), pp. 338-357. (doi: 10.1080/00253359.2021.1948182)

Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2020) Interwar pricefixing in naval shipbuilding. Navy Records Society, 4 Oct.

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2017) Extraordinary Gentlemen: the Economic League, business networks, and organised labour in war planning and rearmament. Scottish Labour History, 52, pp. 120-151.

Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2016) British naval armaments, cartels, and defence planning between the world wars. Entreprises et histoire, 85(1), pp. 70-87.

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2012) Forward to obscurity? Another dimension to the decline of the radical left on 1930s Clydeside. Scottish Labour History, 47, pp. 91-109.

Books

Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2018) Planning and Profits: British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941. Series: Research in maritime history (53). Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781786940667 (doi: 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940667.001.0001)

Book Sections

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2026) Between two worlds: Shipbuilding firms in the interwar years. In: Wilson, John F. (ed.) Management in Interwar Britain: Continuity and Change. Series: Routledge studies in management, organizations and society. Routledge, pp. 203-228. ISBN 9781041014720 (doi: 10.4324/9781003614913-9)

Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2026) A powerless elite? The British armaments sector in depression and rearmament, 1918-39. In: Fridenson, Patrick and Sogner, Knut (eds.) Business Elites and the Organization of Capitalism 1890-1945: Creators of Democracy, Captains of Industry, or Extractors of Value? Oxford University Press: Oxford. (In Press)

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482, Turnbull, Benjamin and Ojala, Jari (2025) Contractors to companies, inventors to industries: the rise of private armaments manufacturing, 1815–1914. In: Eloranta, Jari, Land, Jeremy, Kuorelahti, Elina and Fishback, Price (eds.) The Routledge Economic History of War. Routledge: London, pp. 270-295. ISBN 9781003275275

Mackenzie, Niall ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-7086, Perchard, Andrew, Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 and Forbes, Neil (2022) Introduction: Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. In: Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. Routledge, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781032369839

Stokes, Raymond G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8611-0566 and Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2019) Pollution and climate change. In: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Lubinski, Christina and Tworek, Heidi J.S. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge. ISBN 9781138242654

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2016) Titipu on the Thames. In: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Scottish Opera, pp. 22-25.

Book Reviews

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2021) Warships After London: The end of the treaty era in the five major fleets, 1930–1936. Mariner's Mirror, 107(2), pp. 249-250. (doi: 10.1080/00253359.2021.1903753)[Book Review]

Miller, Christopher W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2018) Review of: Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke and Jeffrey Gale Williamson, eds., The spread of modern industry to the periphery since 1871. Oxford, 2017. Economic History Review, 71(1), pp. 360-361. (doi: 10.1111/ehr.12685)[Book Review]

Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2016) Review of: Beaven, Brad: Visions of Empire. Patriotism, Popular Culture and the City, 1870–1939. Manchester 2012. H-Soz-u-Kult, [Book Review]

Edited Books

Mackenzie, Niall G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-7086, Perchard, Andrew, Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 and Forbes, Neil (Eds.) (2023) Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. Routledge. ISBN 9781032369839

Research Reports or Papers

Heuser, Beatrice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2199-1857, Harding, Rebecca and Miller, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482 (2020) COVID-19: Policy-Options, Effects and Resulting Scenarios. Other. Coriolis Technologies.

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Supervision

I have been involved with the supervision of ten current and former PGR students, and the examination of five PhDs in the UK and abroad. I welcome projects on the history of technology and innovation, business history, warfare and environmental history in Europe, Japan and/or North America from 1700-present. 

Past Projects:

Macon Linton St Hilaire (Ph.D, 1st Supervisor - Lind Foundation Funding): 'A Spirit of Success? The Globalisation of Scotch Whisky, 1918-2018' [with Professor Niall MacKenzie, Adam Smith Business School]

Sascha Schuster (Ph.D, 2nd Supervisor): 'The linkages between military and business strategy in history' [with Professor Beatrice Heuser, Politics and IR]

Shoya Fugestu (Ph.D, dual Glasgow-Kyoto University progamme): 'Royal Navy and private manufacturer co-operation in shipbuilding in the Long Eighteenth Century'

Zheilang Shen (Ph.D, dual Glasgow-Nankai University programme): 'Pathways to Internationalisation for private Chinese firms since 1980'. 

In Progress:

Nijat Muradzada

Hebin Qi

Noble Wonsetler

Douglas McKerracher

Quinn Beggs

Barry Shapiro

  • Muradzada, Nijat
    How can the Entrepreneurial State Facilitate Green Transition? A Retrospective Exploratory Analysis of Azerbaijan.
  • Qi, Hebin
    The Political Economy of Energy Transition in the UK Press: Discourse Dynamics from 1979 to 2007

Teaching

Economies and Societies in WWII (Honours)

Researching Economic and Social History 1 & 2 (Honours)

Technnology Transfer in the Global Economy (PGT)

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy (PGT)

Globalisation in the Modern Economy (MSc International Political Economy, Glasgow-Nankai Joint Graduate School, China)

Various other core and team-taught modules at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. 

Professional activities & recognition

Research fellowships

  • 2020 - 2021: Academy of Finland

Editorial boards

  • 2020: Mariner's Mirror
  • 2018: Business History
  • 2016: Scottish Labour History

Professional & learned societies

  • 2018: Fellow, Royal Historical Society