Gijs RommelseGijs Rommelse is Head of History at the Haarlemmermeer Lyceum, the Netherlands and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester. Having studied at Universiteit Leiden and University College London, he has been a researcher at the Netherands Institute of Military History at The Hague (2007–12) and a research fellow at Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam (2016–17). His works include A Fearful Gentleman: Sir George Downing in The Hague (2011), Ideology and Foreign Policy in Early Modern Europe, 1650–1750 (2011), also co-edited with David Onnekink, and Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500–1815 (forthcoming). Read More Read Less