Since 1999 F.R. Bridge has been Emeritus Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of Leeds.
His publications include: Great Britain and Austria Hungary 1906-1914: A Diplomatic history (London 1972) From Sadowa to Sarajevo: The Foreign policy of Austria-Hungary 1866-1914 (London 1972); (With Roger Bullen) The Great Powers and the European States System, 1815-1914, (London, 1980.) ; 1914: The Coming of the First World War. (London, Historical Association, 1982) The Habsburg Monarchy among the Great Powers, 1815-1918 (Oxford, Berg Press,1991); and numerous articles and parts of books in the field of international history.