Angus Konstam

He left the navy in 1983, and the following year he began a Master of Letters in Maritime Studies at St. Andrews University, a course which combined history with maritime archaeology.[2] After completing his Masters thesis on Renaissance Naval Artillery, he found a job in 1985 as a supervisor on an excavation in the River Thames near the Tower of London, paid for by the Royal Armouries.[2] While he was working in the Royal Armouries, The Tower and the Kremlin decided to swap exhibits – a "Treasures of the Tower" being shown in Moscow while "Treasures of the Kremlin" came to London.[2] At the same time the curators of both museums were encouraged to exchange information, and to examine each other's collections.[2] This ended up with Konstam studying the 18th century Russian military.[2] A mutual colleague introduced him to a historian working for Osprey Publishing, who turned out to want someone to write a book about Peter the Great's Army.[2] The result was two small (15,000-word) books which first appeared in 1993 – the first easily accessible account of the foundation of the Russian army to appear in English.[2][6]

Konstam moved to Key West, Florida in 1995 and became the Chief Curator in the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum.[1][4] Mel Fisher was a treasure hunter who found the wreck of the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha off the Florida Keys.[7] One of his jobs during this time was to create traveling exhibits which toured the United States.[2] During the research for a pirate exhibition, he gained an increasing interest in the subject of 18th century piracy.[2] He spent six years in Key West and wrote several more books, there, including The History of Pirates (2002), which went on to sell over 70,000 copies.[3] As he gained more information through his research, he produced Piracy: The Complete History (2008), and then, to reach a wider audience, The World Atlas of Pirates (2009). In 2019 he published The Pirate World, an adaptation of his 2009 work for the same publisher. Konstam still continues his research into historical piracy, and is now regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on the subject.[3]

In early 2001 he returned to the United Kingdom, and after living in London and then Edinburgh, he returned to Orkney in 2019. He now resides in Herston in South Ronaldsay.[2][8] Konstam continues to research and write about naval and maritime history. Since 2001 he has written extensively on a number of maritime subjects, most of which are produced by Osprey Publishing. He currently has over a hundred books in print[9], including over 75 published by Osprey. He served a three year term as the Chair of The Society of Authors in Scotland and has also served on the board of Publishing Scotland, as well as on other heritage-related committees.[1] In addition, Konstam has also been a "talking head" on many cable TV and radio shows, and makes frequent appearances at book festivals and history events.[5][10]

• Mutiny on the Spanish Main Osprey Publishing 2020 ISBN 9781472833792.
• Hunt the Bismarck Osprey Publishing 2019 ISBN 9781472833860.
• The Pirate World Osprey Publishing 2019 ISBN 9781472830975.
• Viking Warrior: Operations Manual Haynes Publishing 2018 ISBN 9781785211737.
• Big Guns: Artillery on the Battlefield Casemate Publishers 2017 ISBN 9781612004884.
• Jutland 1916 Aurum Press 2016 ISBN 1781312885.
• Pirates: Predators of the Seas Skyhorse Publishing 2016 ISBN 9781510702851. with Roger Kean
• Battleship Bismarck, 1936-41:Owner's Workshop Manual Haynes Publishing 2015 ISBN 9780857335098.
• Bannockburn Aurum Press 2014 ISBN 1781312877.
• Naval Miscellany Osprey Publishing 2010 ISBN 9781846039898.
• The World Atlas of Pirates The Lyons Press 2010 ISBN 9781599214740.
• The Battle of North Cape Pen & Sword Maritime 2009 ISBN 9781844158560.
• There Was a Soldier: First-Hand Accounts of the Scottish Soldier from 1707 to the Present Day Hachette Scotland 2009 ISBN 9780755318612.
• Piracy: The Complete History Osprey Publishing 2008 ISBN 9781846032400.
• Sovereigns of the Sea: The Quest to Build the Perfect Renaissance Battleship John Wiley & Sons 2008 ISBN 9780470116678.
• Cities of the Renaissance World Compendium Publishing 2008 ISBN 9781906347109. with Michael Swift
• Salerno 1943 Pen & Sword Military 2007 ISBN 9781844155170.
• Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate John Wiley & Sons 2006 ISBN 9780471758853.
• Ghost Ships: Tales of Abandoned, Doomed and Haunted Vessels Greenwich Editions 2005 ISBN 08622887380.
• Civil War Ghost Stories Thunder Bay Press 2005 ISBN 1592234828.
• PT Boat Squadrons: US Navy Torpedo Boats Ian Allen 2005 (Spearhead Series) ISBN 0711039448 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: Invalid ISBN..
• The Pocket Book of Civil War Battle Sites Chartwell books 2004 ISBN 0785819207.
• The Pocket Book of Civil War Weapons Chartwell Books 2004 ISBN 0785819193.
• 7th U-Boat Flotilla: Dönitz's Atlantic Wolves Ian Allen 2003 (Spearhead Series) ISBN 0711029571. with Jak P Mallmann Showell
• Hunt the Bismarck Naval Institute Press 2003 ISBN 1591143950.
• The Civil War: A Visual Encyclopedia PRC Publishing 2001 ISBN 1856486087 (General Editor)
• Warships: From the Galley to the Present Day PRC Publishing 2001 ISBN 0517163861. with Leo Marriott and Nick Grant.

• Historical Atlas of the Renaissance Checkmark Books 2004 ISBN 0816057311. as Robert Ritchie
• Historical Atlas of the Napoleonic Era The Lyons Press 2003 ISBN 1585748676.
• Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece Checkmark Books 2003 ISBN 0816052204.
• Historical Atlas of the Viking World Thalamus Publishing 2002 ISBN 1902886038.
• Historical Atlas of the Crusades Thalamus Publishing 2002 ISBN 190288602 X.
• Historical Atlas of the Celtic World Checkmark Books 2001 ISBN 0816047618.
• Historical Atlas of Exploration Checkmark Books 2000 ISBN 0816042489.
• Atlas of Medieval Europe Checkmark Books 2000 ISBN 0816044694.
• The History of Shipwrecks Lyons Press 1999 ISBN 1558219706.
• The History of Pirates Lyons Press 1999 ISBN 1558219692.