Career Outside Politics
As a military historian, Simpson has served as Director of the Cranfield Security Studies Institute at Cranfield University from 1991-7, and as a Senior Lecturer in War Studies and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from 1973-86. He is the author of five books on military history. It was also in this capacity that he was invited to debate masculine violence with a drunken Oliver Reed on an infamous edition of the late night Channel 4 television programme After Dark, broadcast on 22 January 1991.
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