Bryan Ranft

Upon leaving the Royal Artillery, Ranft joined the staff of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and rose to become Professor of History and International Affairs. He was a visiting fellow at King's College London, where he taught naval history to several generations of postgraduate students, and was appointed visiting professor in 1982.

• The Vernon Papers,edited by B. McL. Ranft. Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 99. [London]: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1958.
• Greenwich: palace, hospital, college, by Christopher Lloyd; revised by Bryan Ranft. London: Royal Naval College, 1969.
• Technical change and British naval policy, 1860–1939, edited by Bryan Ranft. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1977.
• The sea in Soviet strategy, Bryan Ranft and Geoffrey Till. London: Macmillan, 1983, 1989.
• Ironclad to Trident: 100 years of defence commentary: Brassey's 1886–1986, edited by Bryan Ranft. London: Brassey's, 1986.
• The Beatty papers: selections from the private and official correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty, edited by B. McL. Ranft. Two volumes. Aldershot: Scolar Press for the Navy Records Society, 1989–1993.
• The Oxford illustrated history of the Royal Navy, general editor, J. Richard Hill; consultant editor, Bryan Ranft. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995.
• "Beatty, David, first Earl Beatty (1871–1936)’ in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
• The development of British naval thinking: essays in memory of Bryan Ranft, edited by Geoffrey Till. London : Routledge, 2006.

• Obituary "Professor Bryan Ranft: Historian of the Royal Navy", Guardian, 25 May 2001.