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Brian Douglas Tennyson (born 1939 in Toronto) is a Canadian historian specializing in early twentieth century Canadian history, focusing on imperial relations, Canadian involvement in the First World War, and Cape Breton history. He is Emeritus Professor at Cape Breton University, where he was also Director of the Centre for International Studies.

Career and Honours Tennyson obtained his Honours BA in History from the University of Toronto in 19762, his MA from the University of Toronto in 1963 under the direction of John Saywell, and his PhD from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London in 1978. His PhD thesis, completed under the supervision of Trevor Reese and Peter Lyon, was the first examination of relations between two dominions in the British empire and was subsequently published as Canadian Relations with South Africa: A Diplomatic History.

He has published eighteen books and more than eighty journal articles and book reviews in major historical journals. His book, Guardian of the Gulf: Sydney, Cape Breton and the Atlantic Wars, co-authored with Roger Sarty, won the best book award from the Canadian Nautical Research Society in 2000, and Nova Scotia at War 1914-1919 won the Atlantic Book Award in 2018. His contribution to the internationalization of Cape Breton University received the CIDA Excellence in Development Education Award in 1996, the President’s Common Purposes Award in 2000, the Arthur Kroeger College Award in Public Affairs in 2001and the Canadian Bureau for International Education's Internationalization Leadership Award in 2003. He also received the Cape Breton University Alumni Association's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2003. He has been listed in the Canadian Who’s Who since 2004.

He serves as a manuscript assessor for the University of Toronto Press, UBC Press, and WLU Press, and was editor of Cape Breton University Press in 1991-93. He has also served on the Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management board of trustees 2003-10 and the board of directors of the Federation of Nova Scotia Heritage 2006-10.

Publications
 * Essays in Cape Breton History. Windsor: Lancelot Press, 1972.
 * Cape Breton: An Annotated Bibliography. Halifax: Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1978.
 * [with Don Macgillivray] Cape Breton Historical Essays. Sydney: CBU Press, 1980.
 * Canadian Relations with South Africa: A Diplomatic History. Washington: University Press of America, 1982.
 * Impressions of Cape Breton. Sydney: CBU Press, 1986. Revised edition published 2014.
 * Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean. Washington: University Press of America, 1988.
 * Canadian-Caribbean Relations: Aspects of a Relationship. Sydney: Centre for International Studies, 1990.
 * The Role of Microenterprise in Community Economic Development: An International Perspective. Hull: Bamarick Press, 1999.
 * [with Roger Sarty] Guardian of the Gulf: Sydney, Cape Breton, and the Atlantic Wars. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
 * Cape Bretoniana: An Annotated Bibliography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
 * [with Wilma Stewart-White] Historic Mahone Bay. Halifax: Nimbus, 2006.
 * Percy Willmot: A Cape Bretoner at War. Sydney: Cape Breton University Press, 2007.
 * Merry Hell: The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
 * The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs. New York: Scarecrow Press, 2013.
 * Canada’s Great War: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
 * Nova Scotia at War, 1914-1919. Halifax: Nimbus, 2017.