Paul Huddie
2014
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| 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 am 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, for example, been funded by Dublin City Council, Royal Historical Society and the British Association for Victorian Studies, and has been published by Liverpool University Press (2021; 2015), Routledge (2019), Four Courts Press (2016) and multiple leading academic journals. These include British Journal for Military History, Mariner’s Mirror, Women’s History Review, and Irish Economic and Social History.
Currently I am pursuing research while also working for as an ERC Research Project Manager at UCD on the ABSOLUTE, ANSOC, and CivilWars projects. I am currently a member of the UCD Centre for War Studies (https://www.ucd.ie/warstudies/members/paulhuddie/), I am an Executive Member of the Irish Association of Professional Historians (https://irishhistorians.ie/members/phuddie/) and I am the Coordinator of both the International Network for Crimean War Studies (https://crimeanwarnetwork.wordpress.com/) and the Military Welfare History Network (https://militarywelfarehistory.com/).
In this latter role I have brought together over 180 researchers from over 110 HEIs in 21 countries around the world since 2019 to develop and promote the field of military welfare history; defined as the welfare, care and medical provisions afforded to service personnel, their families and other dependents. As Coordinator, I have organised the first and second Network conference at UCD in 2021 and 2023 (https://militarywelfarehistory.com/conferences/) and co-edited the first special issue journal in 2023 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07292473.2023.2245252?src=). I am also currently leading the editorial process on the Network’s first edited volume. |
| 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: |
| Keywords | Crimean War; military charity; British Army wives; recruitment; war memorials; war and society |
| Nickname | Paul Huddie |
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| Education | • 2009-14, Queen’s University Belfast, PhD Modern History |
| Employment | RESEARCH AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT I am also a qualified Research Manager and have worked in central research offices at UCD (2018-22), Maynooth University (2017) and University of West London (2015-17). I am currently working as a Research Project Manager on three ERC-funded projects at UCD (2022-27).
ACADEMIC POSITIONS |
| Consultancy work | General: Genealogical: |
| Management & Administrative experience | Conferences organised – History: Historical Research Projects: |
| Teaching | • 2016-17, University of West London • 2010-15, Queen’s University Belfast • 2008-2012, Irish Reserve Defence Forces |
| Committees & Associations | IAPH Committee:
Academic Network Founder & Coordinator: • International Network for Crimean War Studies
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| Awards | 2023 Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France: Visiting Scholars Seminar Series Grant Project: France and the Crimean War seminar series with UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and UCD Centre for War Studies (organiser) 2023 Society for the Study of French History: Conference and Speaker Grants Project: France and the Crimean War seminar series with UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and UCD Centre for War Studies (organiser) 2023 Society for the Social History of Medicine: Conference Fund Project: 2023 Military Welfare History Network Conference 2023 Society for the History of War: Research Grant Project: 2023 Military Welfare History Network Conference 2023 University of Kansas and two private donors Project: 2023 Military Welfare History Network Conference 2022 University College Dublin – School of History; School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore; School of English, Drama and Film; Humanities Institute 2022 Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (organiser) 2022 Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies; Éire/Ireland; Canadian Journal of Irish Studies; Études Irlandaises 2022 Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (organiser) 2021 British Association of Victorian Studies; Research Grant
Project: Producing compendium of 19c/early 20c British military charities using old Naval and Military Funds and Institutions directories 2021 University College Dublin; University of Kansas; Temple University, PA; Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
Project: Military Welfare History Network Conference (organiser) 2020 Society for Nautical Research: Anderson Bequest Grant Project: A history of the Royal Naval Coast Volunteers, 1853-73 2018 Society for Army Historical Research: Independent Researcher Grant Project: Producing compendium of 19c/early 20c British military charities using old Naval and Military Funds and Institutions directories 2017 Society for the Social History of Medicine To present at The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health, EAHMH conference, Bucharest 2017 British Association of Victorian Studies: Research Grant To present panel paper at The 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, Hofstra University, New York 2016 Society for Nautical Research: Anderson Bequest Grant Project: A history of the Royal Naval Coast Volunteers, 1853-73 2016 British Association of Victorian Studies: Research Grant Project: A study of the British army in Ireland, 1815-1914 as part of proposed ‘New Military History of Ireland’ project conceived by Drs Tim Bowman (Kent) and Stephen O’Connor (TCD) 2014 Women’s History Association of Ireland: Anna Parnell Travel Prize To present paper at University of Worcester 2013 Royal Historical Society: Travel Grant To present paper at Simon Fraser University, Canada 2009 Dublin City Council: Higher Education Grant Four-Year Research Studentship and Stipend |
| 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 |
| Books | In development, Where War and Welfare Meet: Perspectives of Military Welfare History from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries, with Dr Emma Huddlestone, Dr Anndal Narayanan, and Dr Amy J. Rutenberg (2023-25) 2015, The Crimean War and Irish Society (Liverpool University Press) |
| Book Chapters | • 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 |
| Peer Reviewed Journals | • 2023, special edition of War & Society entitled ‘Military Welfare History: what is it and why should it be considered?’, with Amy Carney (Penn State Bertrand) |
| Other Journals | • 2020, ‘The Story of Birr’s Russian Cannon’, Offaly Heritage: Journal of the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society, xi, pp 230-41 |
| Electronic Publications | Blog posts: Online Articles: |
| Reviews | • 2023, ‘Nightingale’s Nuns and the Crimean War’, BAVS Newsletter, 23, 1 (Spring), pp 12-13 |
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