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King"s College London.
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Sebastian Cox
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Mr Sebastian Cox, Master of Arts, is the Head of the Air Historical Branch of the Royal Air Force, a specialist archive and history unit based at Royal Air Force Northolt, Middlesex, which seeks to maintain and preserve the historical memory of the Royal Air Force and to develop and encourage "an informed understanding of Royal Air Force and air power history by providing accurate and timely advice to Ministers, the Royal Air Force, other government departments and the general public".
Career
He has worked at the AHB since 1984 and been its Head since May 1996. Cox attended the King Edward School in Bath. He is a graduate of Warwick University and King"s College London.
He was curator of documents at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, before joining the Air Historical Branch as a researcher in 1984.
He is the first civilian to serve as its Head. An archivist of, and writer on, British air power, Cox is one of the directors of the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies.
Cox was the Series Editor for Cass Studies in Air Power, a military history book series specialising in air power history. He is also an edorial advisor for the Air Power Review (published by the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies) and The Journal of Military History (Society for Military History).
Membership
He is a long-time member of the Chemical Abstracts Service Air Power Workshop, a small working group of scholars and other theorists convened by the Chief of Air Staff (the head of the Royal Air Force).
