Dr. Gijs Rommelse teaches history at the Haarlemmermeer Lyceum in Hoofddorp (The Netherlands) and is head of the school's History Department. He is also an honorary fellow at the University of Leicester. He gained his PhD from the University of Leiden with a dissertation titled The Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667). International raison d’état, mercantilism and maritime strife (Hilversum, 2006). He is the co-author of A fearful gentleman – Sir George Downing in The Hague 1658–1672 (Hilversum, 2011) and The Dutch in the Early Modern World. A History of a Global Power (Cambridge 2019).He is co-editor of Ideology and foreign policy in early modern Europe 1650–1750 (Farnham, 2011) and Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500-1815 (Abingdon, 2019).
His research interests include Anglo-Dutch relations, early modern political and military cultures, privateering, prisoners of war and political economy. His current project is a book titled The Dutch and their Fleet. National Identity and Seapower, 1570-1815. He is also working on an edited volume titled War, Trade and the State. Anglo-Dutch conflict 1652-1688, which will be published by The Boydell Press in 2019.