Eamonn O’Keeffe
@1812andallthat.bsky.social
Pratt Fellow in History at Memorial University, Newfoundland.
https://eamonnokeeffe1812.com/
https://eamonnokeeffe1812.com/
Thanks for sharing!
Worth adding that some of the rank-and-file lamented this disparity of commemoration in their letters and memoirs. E.g. Private Wm Wheeler of the 51s Foot, 1813:
Worth adding that some of the rank-and-file lamented this disparity of commemoration in their letters and memoirs. E.g. Private Wm Wheeler of the 51s Foot, 1813:
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Thanks for sharing!
Worth adding that some of the rank-and-file lamented this disparity of commemoration in their letters and memoirs. E.g. Private Wm Wheeler of the 51s Foot, 1813:
Worth adding that some of the rank-and-file lamented this disparity of commemoration in their letters and memoirs. E.g. Private Wm Wheeler of the 51s Foot, 1813:
I enjoyed coming across this PhD thesis file title...
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I enjoyed coming across this PhD thesis file title...
I've recently moved to St. John's, Newfoundland, to start work as the Pratt Fellow in History at Memorial University. I look forward to researching duelling and honour among army officers while getting to know this beautiful part of the world.
October 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I've recently moved to St. John's, Newfoundland, to start work as the Pratt Fellow in History at Memorial University. I look forward to researching duelling and honour among army officers while getting to know this beautiful part of the world.
Man named James O’Loan says he can’t offer credit 🤔
September 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Man named James O’Loan says he can’t offer credit 🤔
This Cambridge engineering wing was built in memory of physicist John Hopkinson and his son John Gustave, victims of an 1898 mountaineering accident. Absent from the plaque: Alice and Lina Evelyn Hopkinson, who died with their father and brother in the same Alpine mishap.
September 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This Cambridge engineering wing was built in memory of physicist John Hopkinson and his son John Gustave, victims of an 1898 mountaineering accident. Absent from the plaque: Alice and Lina Evelyn Hopkinson, who died with their father and brother in the same Alpine mishap.
Monument in Waterford Christ Church cathedral to South Devon militiamen who died at the close of the 1798 rebellion in Ireland. Notable as a very early war memorial commemorating individual soldiers by name.
August 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Monument in Waterford Christ Church cathedral to South Devon militiamen who died at the close of the 1798 rebellion in Ireland. Notable as a very early war memorial commemorating individual soldiers by name.
'The Lawsuit' - two men fight over a cow, while the lawyer milks the profits! (18th century bronze plaque, from The Black and White House in Hereford, England).
August 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
'The Lawsuit' - two men fight over a cow, while the lawyer milks the profits! (18th century bronze plaque, from The Black and White House in Hereford, England).
A Japanese netsuke (miniature toggle sculpture) of a monkey poking a tortoise. 1800-1850. Spotted at the V&A Museum in London. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O492502...
July 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A Japanese netsuke (miniature toggle sculpture) of a monkey poking a tortoise. 1800-1850. Spotted at the V&A Museum in London. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O492502...
Ouch! (from a book review...)
July 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Ouch! (from a book review...)
Pleased to have received a preview copy of Andrew Lambert’s latest. A rewarding read so far. No More Napoleons will be published by Yale University Press later this month.
June 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Pleased to have received a preview copy of Andrew Lambert’s latest. A rewarding read so far. No More Napoleons will be published by Yale University Press later this month.
I really enjoyed visiting that exhibition this week!
April 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I really enjoyed visiting that exhibition this week!
Visited the Chalmette battlefield in New Orleans, the site of a disastrous British assault against Andrew Jackson’s lines in January 1815.
April 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Visited the Chalmette battlefield in New Orleans, the site of a disastrous British assault against Andrew Jackson’s lines in January 1815.
Interesting to see isolationists invoke Benedict Arnold when critiquing US aid to Britain early in WWII… and to learn that solo driving = fascism.
March 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Interesting to see isolationists invoke Benedict Arnold when critiquing US aid to Britain early in WWII… and to learn that solo driving = fascism.
Capping off the Society for Military History conference in Mobile, AL with visits to the USS Alabama and the US WWII museum in New Orleans.
March 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Capping off the Society for Military History conference in Mobile, AL with visits to the USS Alabama and the US WWII museum in New Orleans.
A book reviewer is unimpressed by Foucauldian paradigms...
March 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A book reviewer is unimpressed by Foucauldian paradigms...
Enjoying David Suisman’s talk about music and the US military for the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics.
March 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Enjoying David Suisman’s talk about music and the US military for the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics.
Looking forward to hosting this virtual event today! 5pm GMT and noon EST. There's still time to sign up. www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/5644-2/
March 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Looking forward to hosting this virtual event today! 5pm GMT and noon EST. There's still time to sign up. www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/5644-2/
A unicorn in St John’s College, Cambridge.
February 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A unicorn in St John’s College, Cambridge.
I'll be speaking in Oxford tomorrow about Shadrack Byfield, a disabled War of 1812 veteran who wrote multiple memoirs and designed his own prosthesis.
All welcome in person at Lincoln College (4.15pm), or contact perry.gauci@lincoln.ox.ac.uk for the link to join online
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/4df...
All welcome in person at Lincoln College (4.15pm), or contact perry.gauci@lincoln.ox.ac.uk for the link to join online
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/4df...
February 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I'll be speaking in Oxford tomorrow about Shadrack Byfield, a disabled War of 1812 veteran who wrote multiple memoirs and designed his own prosthesis.
All welcome in person at Lincoln College (4.15pm), or contact perry.gauci@lincoln.ox.ac.uk for the link to join online
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/4df...
All welcome in person at Lincoln College (4.15pm), or contact perry.gauci@lincoln.ox.ac.uk for the link to join online
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/4df...
My latest article, 'British Military Music in Battle during the Napoleonic Wars', has just been published in the International Journal of Military History. Free to read here: brill.com/view/journal...
February 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
My latest article, 'British Military Music in Battle during the Napoleonic Wars', has just been published in the International Journal of Military History. Free to read here: brill.com/view/journal...
My review of The Horrible Peace by @evanwilson.bsky.social has now been published by the journal War in History. Highly recommended.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
My review of The Horrible Peace by @evanwilson.bsky.social has now been published by the journal War in History. Highly recommended.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My new Historical Journal article, "British Military Music and the Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars", is now available to read online: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 8, 2024 at 5:11 PM
My new Historical Journal article, "British Military Music and the Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars", is now available to read online: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...