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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) and the co-editor of New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (2025). My next book, Military Welfare History since the Eighteenth Century: War and Welfare, co-edited with Emma Huddlestone, Anndal Narayanan, and Amy J. Rutenberg, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2027.
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 (2025; 2021; 2015), Routledge (2019), Four Courts Press (2016) and multiple leading academic journals. These include British Journal for Military History, Marinerâs Mirror, Women’s History Review, and Irish Economic and Social History.
In my role as MWHN Co-ordinator I have brought together over 230 researchers from over 140 HEIs in 27 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 and co-edited the first special issue journal in 2023. I am also currently leading the editorial process on the Network’s first edited volume.
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, I am the founder and co-ordinator of both the Military Welfare History Network and the International Network for Crimean War Studies a former Executive Member of the Irish Association of Professional Historians. |
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 societiesâ 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 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 |
Nickname | Paul Huddie |
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Education | ⢠2009-14, Queen’s University Belfast, PhD Modern History |
Employment | 2018 â present, University College Dublin 2017, Maynooth University 2015 â 2017, University of West London 2010-2015, Queenâs University Belfast
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Management & Administrative experience | Conferences organised: |
Committees & Associations | IAPH Committee:
Academic Network Founder & Coordinator: â˘Â International Network for Crimean War Studies
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Awards | Most Recent: 2024, Ireland Canada University Foundation: Craig Dobbin Legacy Scholarship Award Project: Ireland, Atlantic Canada and the Crimean War: imperial connectivity and shared Experiences? [âŹ6,600] 2024, International Society for First World War Studies: Small Grants for Events Event: âThe Military Welfare of the First World War: preparations, evolutions and legaciesâ conference [ÂŁ1,500] 2024, Society for the Social History of Medicine: Wellcome/SSHM Network Grant Project: âThe Military Communitiesâ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Seriesâ [ÂŁ3,800] 2024, Society for Nautical Research: Anderson Bequest Grant Project: Scotland, Royal Naval Cost Volunteers (1853-73), and the Development a British Naval Reserve [ÂŁ685] 2023, Economic History Society: Initiatives and Conferences Fund Event: 2024 Military Welfare History Network Conference [ÂŁ1,200] 2023, The Strathmartine Trust: Research Grant Project: Scotland, Royal Naval Cost Volunteers (1853-73), and the Development a British Naval Reserve [ÂŁ1,009] |
Books | (Forthcoming 2027) Military Welfare History since the Eighteenth Century: War and Welfare, co-edited with Emma Huddlestone, Anndal Narayanan, and Amy J. Rutenberg 2025, New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (Liverpool University Press) [co-edited with Cathal Billings and Arlene Crampsie] 2015, The Crimean War and Irish Society (Liverpool University Press) |
Book Chapters | ⢠Forthcoming 2026, âThe Irish soldier in the Crimean Warâ, in Thomas Bartlett (ed.), Militarum:a history of the Irish soldier (Four Courts Press). |
Peer Reviewed Journals | ⢠2023, special edition of War & Society entitled âMilitary Welfare History: what is it and why should it be considered?â, with Amy Carney (Penn State Bertrand) |
Other Journals | ⢠2020, âThe Story of Birrâs Russian Cannonâ, Offaly Heritage: Journal of the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society, xi, pp 230-41 |
Reviews | ⢠2025, âThe Crimean War and Cultural Memory: the war France won and forgotâ, French History |
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