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Paul Huddie

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Email	paulhuddie01@gmail.com
Twitter link	PaulHuddie
Bio	I am a historical researcher interested in war and society, principally within the British Empire in the long 19c. I am a graduate of UCD (BA, 2008; MA 2009) and Queen’s University Belfast (2014) and is the author of The Crimean War and Irish Society (2015) (https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/60057). To date I have presented his research around the theme of war and society at Cambridge, New York, Vancouver and a host of Irish, British and European academic and non-academic institutions. My research has been funded, for example, by Dublin City Council, Royal Historical Society and the British Association for Victorian Studies, and has been published by Liverpool University Press, Four Courts Press, Irish Economic and Social History, and British Journal for Military History, amongst others.
Areas of expertise	My expertise lies in the field of Crimean War studies, with a specialism in Ireland’s / Irish society’s relationship with the conflict. More generally I am a researcher of war and society in Britain and Ireland in the long nineteenth century and the immediate aftermath of the Great War, whereby I look at British and Irish societies’ relationships with war and the military, during both peace and hostilities. My research interests and areas of publication comprise: – army wives and military charities and welfare – Ireland and imperial warfare – war memorialisation My other specialism is military charity the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families Association (est. 1885).
Keywords	Crimean War; military charity; British Army wives; recruitment; war memorials; war and society

Member Details

Nickname	Paul Huddie
Membership Type	Professional Historian

Experience

Education	• 2009-14, Queen’s University Belfast, PhD Modern History • 2008-9, University College Dublin, MA Modern European History • 2005-8, University College Dublin, BA History and Politics
Employment	PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS • 2016 – 2017, Lecturer (part-time) University of West London • 2015, Research Assistant (London-based) University College Cork Project: ‘Cork’s naval dead of the First World War’ PI: Dr Andrew Bielenberg • 2010-2015, University Tutor / Teaching Assistant (Modern History) Queen’s University Belfast • 2009-2014, Doctoral Researcher (Modern History) Queen’s University Belfast
Consultancy work	General: • 2019-20, Laois County Council (re: Birr’s Crimean cannon) • 2016, Adare Productions Ltd (for TG4’s An Lá a Rugadh Mé) • 2016, Sweathearts community engagement project (Wiltshire, UK) • 2014, Portlaoise Local History Group (re: town’s Crimean cannon) • 2012, National Museum of Ireland (re: ‘Dick Bird’ exhibition) Genealogical: • 2018, Maltese local historian (re: the Rev. Charles Josiah Hort) • 2015, Canadian descendant (re: Augustus Stafford O’Brien, MP) • 2013, English local historian (re: Augustus Stafford O’Brien, MP) • 2012, English descendant (re: the Rev. Charles Josiah Hort)
Management & Administrative experience	Academic Network Founder & Co-ordinator: • International Network for Crimean War Studies • Military Welfare History Network Conferences organised – History: • 2022, Annual conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, UCD, Dublin (organiser) • 2021, Military Welfare History Network conference, UCD Humanities Institute, Ireland (organiser) • 2017, Southern Irish Loyalists conference, Maynooth University, Ireland (co-organiser) • 2017, West London Local History Conference, University of West London (co-organiser) • 2016, West London Local History Conference, University of West London (co-organiser) • 2015, IAPH History and Heritage Academic Conference, Queen’s University Belfast (co-organiser) Historical Research Projects: • 2014- , UK & Ireland – Independent Research (part funded) • 2009-13, Queen’s University Belfast – Doctoral Research (fully funded)
Teaching	• 2016-17, University of West London Part-Time Lecturer College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare – Level 1 – Introduction to Public Health – Level 1 – The Foundations of Public Health School of Human and Social Sciences – Level 1 – Introduction to Social Work – Level 1 – Introduction to Social Policy • 2010-15, Queen’s University Belfast University Tutor School of History and Anthropology – Level 2 – HIST2001: Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Society and Politics – Level 1 – HIST 1001: History & Historians: contested pasts • 2008-2012, Irish Reserve Defence Forces 62nd Infantry Battalion Instructor
Committees & Associations	• IAPH Executive Member (2015-)
Awards	ACADEMIC PRIZES AND AWARDS • 2020, Society for Nautical Research Anderson Bequest Grant to research and publish on Royal Naval Coast Volunteers, 1853-73 • 2018, Society for Army Historical Research Independent Researcher Grant to produce compendium of 19c/early 20c British military charities • 2017, Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference Bursary to present paper at the EAHMH conference at Bucharest, Romania • 2017; 2016, British Association of Victorian Studies Research Grant to research British Army in Ireland and present paper at New York • 2016, Society for Nautical Research Anderson Bequest Grant to research and publish on Royal Naval Coast Volunteers, 1853-73 • 2015, Women’s History Network Travel Grant to present paper at Banktock House, Wolverhampton • 2015, Women’s History Association of Ireland Travel Grant to present paper at Maynooth University • 2014, Women’s History Association of Ireland Anna Parnell Travel Prize to present paper at Home Front conference at University of Worcester • 2011; 2012; 2013, School of History and Anthropology (QUB) Postgraduate Travel Grant to present research at Sunderland, Belgium and the Netherlands • 2013, Royal Historical Society Travel Grant to present paper at On the Edge conference at Vancouver, Canada • 2013, Crimean War Research Society President’s Trophy for best lecture at the society’s AGM • 2009-2013, Dublin City Council Fully Funded Research Studentship to undertake PhD
Other activities	• Media work: Experience to date conducting radio and television interviews in Ireland and the United Kingdom. • Conferencing: Papers presented on various aspects of Ireland and the Crimean War and the history of British military welfare and the army wife presented at conference in Ireland, the UK, Europe and North America. • Lecturing: Public talks given to Old Dublin Society and Crimean War Research Society in 2013; as part of Dublin City Council’s Festival of History in 2014; to the BDS Historical Society in 2015; at Valence House Museum, London and at Cranbrook (Private) School in 2016; and as part of Heritage Week (Laois) and Culture Night (Dublin) in 2017

Publications

Books	2015, The Crimean War and Irish Society (Liverpool University Press)
Book Chapters	• Forthcoming, ‘When charities unite: the cooperative activities of the United Services Fund and SSAFA on behalf of ex-servicemen’s families, 1919-25’, in Alexia Moncrieff (ed) Care after the First World War (Manchester University Press) • 2021, ‘The Crimean War, 1854-6: Ireland’s happiest nineteenth-century war’, Mary Hatfiled (ed.), in Happiness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Liverpool University Press), pp 35-52 • 2019, ‘SSAFA, ex-servicemen and their families 1919-21’ in Oliver Wilkinson and David Swift (eds), ‘Ex-Servicemen & Ex-Servicewomen in Britain and Ireland after the First World War’ (Routledge), pp 34-47 • 2016, ‘“That woe could wish, or vanity devise’: Crimean War memorials in Dublin’s Anglican churches’ in Ciarán Wallace and Lisa-Marie Griffin (eds), Grave Matters: Death and Dying in Dublin 1650-2000 (Four Court Press), pp 77-85
Peer Reviewed Journals	• 2021, ‘Recruiting the Royal Naval Coast Volunteers in Britain and Ireland, 1854–6’, Mariner’s Mirror, 107, 4 (Nov.), pp 420-34 • 2020, ‘The Nenagh Mutiny of 7-8 July 1856: a reappraisal’, British Journal for Military History, vi, no. 1 (March), pp 5-20 • 2018, ‘Ireland and the first media war: digestible, cultural engagements of the Crimean War 1854-6’, Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, vol. 2, pp 61-75 • 2018, ‘Legacies of a broken United Kingdom: British military charities, the state and the courts in Ireland, 1923–29’, Irish Economic and Social History, xlv, 1 (Dec.), pp 3-22 • 2017, ‘Victims or survivors: army wives in Ireland during the Crimean War, 1854-6’ in Women’s History Review, xxvi, issue 4 (Apr.), pp 541-54 • 2015, ‘British Military Recruitment in Ireland during the Crimean War, 1854-56’ in British Journal for Military History, ii, issue 1 (Oct.), pp 34-55 • 2013, ‘The Society of Friends in Ireland and the Crimean War, 1854-6’ in Quaker History, 102, no. 2 (Fall), pp 1-11
Other Journals	• 2020, ‘The Story of Birr’s Russian Cannon’, Offaly Heritage: Journal of the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society, xi, pp 230-41 • 2020, ‘The Seaton Needlework Association: Dublin’s British military charity, 1854-2014’, Dublin Historical Record, 72, no. 2 (Spring), pp 214-27 • 2018, ‘The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families Association and the separation women of Dublin in 1914’, Dublin Historical Record, lxxi, no. 2 (Autumn/Winter), pp 185-201 • 2018, ‘Extraordinary Measures: Paul Cullen and the English-speaking French priests’, War Correspondent: Journal of the Crimean War Research Society, xxxvi, no. 1 (Sept.), p. 46 • 2018, ‘The Story of Birr’s Russian Trophy Cannon’, War Correspondent: Journal of the Crimean War Research Society, xxxv, no. 3 (Apr.), pp 29-34 • 2018, ‘Portlaoise’s Crimean cannon?: a talk by Dr Paul Huddie, August 2017’, Laois Heritage Society Journal, no. 9 • 2018, Dublin, the Viceroy, and the soldiers of the Crimean War’, Irish Sword, No. 125 (Summer), pp 268-80 • 2018, ‘“What round tower?”: the 2014 Ferrycarrig restoration project’, Journal of the Wexford Historical Society, vol. 1, issue 1, (February) • 2016, ‘The Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Rev G.H. Johnston and the Crimean War’, The Bulletin: Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, lx, pp 35-41 • 2015, ‘A history of a Crimean War charity: the Seaton Needlework Association and its fund, 1858 to 2014’, War Correspondent: Journal of the Crimean War Research Society, xxxii, no. 3 (Sept.), pp 7-9 • 2014, ‘The Crimean War experience of G. H. Johnston, the Irish Presbyterians’ first army chaplain’, Irish Sword, no. 118 (Winter), pp 325-31 • 2014, “Removing some big guns’: the story of Dublin’s Crimean War trophy guns from 1857 to the present’, Dublin Historical Record, lxvii, no. 1 (Spring), pp 6-18 • 2012, ‘Augustus Stafford O’Brien Stafford MP: contested hero of the Crimean War’, Old Limerick Journal, xliv (Winter), pp 54-6 • 2012, ‘Four-legged troopers: the stories of three memorialised Irish animals of the Crimean War, 1854-6’, Scoláire Staire, ii, issue 4 (Oct.), pp 8-15 • 2012, ‘The Revd Charles Josiah Hort: heroic deeds beyond the battlefield’, Irish Sword, xxix, no. 113 (Summer), pp 299-302
Electronic Publications	Blog posts: • 2017, Fighting over the scraps of the Union: the cases of two four-nations court battles over ‘Irish’ military charities 1923-9 • 2016, ‘Unparalleled unity’?: four nations approach to ‘British’ conflicts, the armed forces and society • 2015, The Irish army wife: a brief case study Online Articles: • 2015, ‘Royal Naval Coast Volunteers, Ireland and the Crimean War’ • 2014, ‘The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families Association, County Dublin Division, 1914: a case study’
Reviews	• 2022, ‘The Routledge Handbook of the Crimean War’, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (tbc) • 2019, ‘The Irish Brigade in the Pope’s Army, 1860: faith, fatherland and fighting’, Irish Historical Studies (May) • 2018, ‘Women of empire: nineteenth-century army officers’ wives in India and the U.S. West’, Women’s History Review, 27, issue 6 (online) • 2017, ‘The Crimean War in Imperial Context, 1854-1856 by Andrew C. Rath’, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 95, no. 381 (Spring), pp 80-81

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