Rory Muir
@rorymuir.bsky.social
British History - Wellington; the Defeat of Napoleon; Regency Society, careers open to younger sons; Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen (Yale UP Feb 2024)
Lives in Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Lives in Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Sad news…
Some sad news brought over from Twitter. His books were or excellent and got me interested in the War of 1812 as were his Peninsular War books on Thomas Pearson and the Royal Welsh Fusiliers
@markurban.bsky.social @marksthompson.bsky.social @robgriffith.bsky.social @rorymuir.bsky.social
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November 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Sad news…
Story of two First World War letters home from Australian soldiers on board ship headed to Europe found in a bottle on a West Australian beach. #FirstWorldWar #WW1 #Anzac
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
WWI soldier's message in a bottle found on WA beach
A century-old message in a bottle from a World War I soldier to his mother has been found on a beach in Western Australia's south.
www.abc.net.au
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Story of two First World War letters home from Australian soldiers on board ship headed to Europe found in a bottle on a West Australian beach. #FirstWorldWar #WW1 #Anzac
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Unexpected visitor to a suburban library in Adelaide last night
September 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Unexpected visitor to a suburban library in Adelaide last night
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In this sample article from our Journal, Pete Starling looks at a scheme from the 1850s to train young African men as medical officers for Sierra Leone: www.sahr.org.uk/docs/shar-boys-of-colour-draft-sahrs1120.pdf
Join us to get access to over 400 Journal issues: www.sahr.org.uk/membership.php
Join us to get access to over 400 Journal issues: www.sahr.org.uk/membership.php
September 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
In this sample article from our Journal, Pete Starling looks at a scheme from the 1850s to train young African men as medical officers for Sierra Leone: www.sahr.org.uk/docs/shar-boys-of-colour-draft-sahrs1120.pdf
Join us to get access to over 400 Journal issues: www.sahr.org.uk/membership.php
Join us to get access to over 400 Journal issues: www.sahr.org.uk/membership.php
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Our friends at the Army Records Society have launched another round of their fellowship programme, which offers funding over three years to create a volume in their long-running primary source series. Details at www.smh-hq.org/opps/jobs.html.
Jobs and Fellowships | The Society for Military History
www.smh-hq.org
July 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Our friends at the Army Records Society have launched another round of their fellowship programme, which offers funding over three years to create a volume in their long-running primary source series. Details at www.smh-hq.org/opps/jobs.html.
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Thanks to Owen Davis for a lovely review of King George’s Army Vol 2 (Foot Guards and 1-30 Foot). Vol 3 is out now, and Vol 4 not too far away.
#napoleonic #history #helion
www.napoleon-series.org/book-reviews...
#napoleonic #history #helion
www.napoleon-series.org/book-reviews...
King George’s Army, British Regiments and the Men who led them 1793-1815: Volume 2 | The Napoleon Series
King George’s Army, British Regiments and the Men who led them 1793-1815: Volume 2: Foot Guards and 1st to 30th Regiments of Foot. Steve Brown Helion & Company Limited (2024) ISBN: 9781804514382 Pages...
www.napoleon-series.org
June 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Thanks to Owen Davis for a lovely review of King George’s Army Vol 2 (Foot Guards and 1-30 Foot). Vol 3 is out now, and Vol 4 not too far away.
#napoleonic #history #helion
www.napoleon-series.org/book-reviews...
#napoleonic #history #helion
www.napoleon-series.org/book-reviews...
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Look forward to June!
Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read
Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read
May 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Look forward to June!
Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read
Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read
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Join us at York St John University (and online) for a fascinating FREE talk by Dr James Hurst based on his new research into the British heavy cavalry at Waterloo.
Wed 28 May, 5:30pm, all are welcome!
More info and tickets (completely free!) here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waterloo-t...
Wed 28 May, 5:30pm, all are welcome!
More info and tickets (completely free!) here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waterloo-t...
Waterloo: the Great Charge of the British Cavalry
This event will be taking place in person and online
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Join us at York St John University (and online) for a fascinating FREE talk by Dr James Hurst based on his new research into the British heavy cavalry at Waterloo.
Wed 28 May, 5:30pm, all are welcome!
More info and tickets (completely free!) here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waterloo-t...
Wed 28 May, 5:30pm, all are welcome!
More info and tickets (completely free!) here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waterloo-t...
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An updated blog post on 'The Fact & Fiction of Captain Peter Blassiere, 5/60th Rifles'. My thanks to Thomas Hemmann for sending me the Hannoversches militairisches Journal article. daringdutycunningplans.wordpress.com/2018/12/19/t...
The Fact & Fiction of Captain Peter Blassiere, 5/60th
Almost everybody interested in the Napoleonic Wars will be familiar with Bernard Cornwell’s fictional rifleman, Richard Sharpe. However, the first fictional rifleman was probably from the 5th Bat…
daringdutycunningplans.wordpress.com
May 24, 2025 at 5:22 AM
An updated blog post on 'The Fact & Fiction of Captain Peter Blassiere, 5/60th Rifles'. My thanks to Thomas Hemmann for sending me the Hannoversches militairisches Journal article. daringdutycunningplans.wordpress.com/2018/12/19/t...
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LAST CHANCE TO TAKE OUR MONEY!
Are you a postgraduate student researching any aspect of the history of the British Army? If so, why not apply for our University Research Grants, open to scholars worldwide. Deadline now extended until 30 May. Details at: www.sahr.org.uk/university-r...
Are you a postgraduate student researching any aspect of the history of the British Army? If so, why not apply for our University Research Grants, open to scholars worldwide. Deadline now extended until 30 May. Details at: www.sahr.org.uk/university-r...
May 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
LAST CHANCE TO TAKE OUR MONEY!
Are you a postgraduate student researching any aspect of the history of the British Army? If so, why not apply for our University Research Grants, open to scholars worldwide. Deadline now extended until 30 May. Details at: www.sahr.org.uk/university-r...
Are you a postgraduate student researching any aspect of the history of the British Army? If so, why not apply for our University Research Grants, open to scholars worldwide. Deadline now extended until 30 May. Details at: www.sahr.org.uk/university-r...
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Our Annual Members' Meeting last month saw the announcement of 10 new SAHR Fellows. Pictured L-R, Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter, Mick Crumplin, Carole Divall, Tim Cooke. For a full list and details of those honoured, see: www.sahr.org.uk/fellowships....
May 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Our Annual Members' Meeting last month saw the announcement of 10 new SAHR Fellows. Pictured L-R, Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter, Mick Crumplin, Carole Divall, Tim Cooke. For a full list and details of those honoured, see: www.sahr.org.uk/fellowships....
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So happy to be able to announce that in a couple of weeks I'm going to be speaking on negotiated authority in the fencibles at @camhistory.bsky.social, hosted by @1812andallthat.bsky.social! Free attendance and all that, & would be lovely to see some friendly faces
www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/contr...
www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/contr...
Contractual soldiering and negotiated authority during the French Revolutionary Wars - Centre for Geopolitics
www.cfg.cam.ac.uk
May 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
So happy to be able to announce that in a couple of weeks I'm going to be speaking on negotiated authority in the fencibles at @camhistory.bsky.social, hosted by @1812andallthat.bsky.social! Free attendance and all that, & would be lovely to see some friendly faces
www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/contr...
www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/contr...
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Live-streaming now: Dr Matthew Spring speaks about British tactics and adaptation during the American War of Independence. Part of the AWI 250 series at the National Army Museum.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lhs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lhs...
Learning to Adapt: The British Army in the American War of Independence
YouTube video by NationalArmyMuseumUK
www.youtube.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Live-streaming now: Dr Matthew Spring speaks about British tactics and adaptation during the American War of Independence. Part of the AWI 250 series at the National Army Museum.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lhs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lhs...
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Support for historians at mid-career: the Society invites applications for its 'Funded Book Workshop' programme bit.ly/4fYQcRC
Workshops enable authors of a 2nd or 3rd monograph to hold a day-long discussion of a book MS with 6 readers of their choosing.
Closing date: Friday 11 July #Skystorians
Workshops enable authors of a 2nd or 3rd monograph to hold a day-long discussion of a book MS with 6 readers of their choosing.
Closing date: Friday 11 July #Skystorians
May 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Support for historians at mid-career: the Society invites applications for its 'Funded Book Workshop' programme bit.ly/4fYQcRC
Workshops enable authors of a 2nd or 3rd monograph to hold a day-long discussion of a book MS with 6 readers of their choosing.
Closing date: Friday 11 July #Skystorians
Workshops enable authors of a 2nd or 3rd monograph to hold a day-long discussion of a book MS with 6 readers of their choosing.
Closing date: Friday 11 July #Skystorians
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“I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s 1821 novel ANNALS OF THE PARISH
2/6
www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-john...
—Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s 1821 novel ANNALS OF THE PARISH
2/6
www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-john...
B-Sides: John Galt’s “Annals of the Parish” - Public Books
For 30 or 40 years a book has been lurking on my shelves, a beautiful little Everyman’s Library edition published by Dent and Dutton, undated, with red fake leather binding …
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May 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s 1821 novel ANNALS OF THE PARISH
2/6
www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-john...
—Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s 1821 novel ANNALS OF THE PARISH
2/6
www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-john...
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Look forward to May!
Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month: regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read
Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month: regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read
April 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Look forward to May!
Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month: regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read
Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month: regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read
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Sunday's books. Something really good and something really... weird. 😄
April 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Sunday's books. Something really good and something really... weird. 😄
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Do we know if the British army ever adopted this newly proposed scheme of attaching scythes to cavalry horses? buff.ly/ExWcYQP #Archive30 #SomethingNew @ARAScot
Letter from Lieutenant W.Sibbald to Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, submitting his new invention, a plan for fitting scythes to the horses of the British cavalry, to the Duke for the consideration of a committee
Letter from Lieutenant William Sibbald, on half pay, First Regiment of Foot, to Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington: he thanks the Duke for his letter of 17 May permitting him to forward his p…
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April 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Do we know if the British army ever adopted this newly proposed scheme of attaching scythes to cavalry horses? buff.ly/ExWcYQP #Archive30 #SomethingNew @ARAScot
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This Easter weekend the U.K. National Army Museum will release a roundtable discussion marking the 250th anniversary of the American War of Independence.
Tune in for the livestream on Saturday (3pm BST/10am EDT).
www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/was...
Tune in for the livestream on Saturday (3pm BST/10am EDT).
www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/was...
Was the American War of Independence a Civil War?
Join Dr Eamonn O’Keeffe as he invites an online panel of experts to explore issues of identity, patriotism and loyalty on the road to revolution.
www.nam.ac.uk
April 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This Easter weekend the U.K. National Army Museum will release a roundtable discussion marking the 250th anniversary of the American War of Independence.
Tune in for the livestream on Saturday (3pm BST/10am EDT).
www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/was...
Tune in for the livestream on Saturday (3pm BST/10am EDT).
www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/was...
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Congrats @rmbhistory.bsky.social on his latest publication journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
A Mutinous Disposition? Discipline and (Dis)order in the Fencible Regiments in Britain and Ireland, 1793–1802 - Rory Butcher, 2024
The fencible regiments of the 1790s operated like the regulars but were limited to serve only in wartime, like the militia, and only in Scotland, later becoming...
journals.sagepub.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Congrats @rmbhistory.bsky.social on his latest publication journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Wishing everyone attending the #WellingtonCongress at Southampton a great time. I wish I was there again - it was such fun! Look forward to hearing about the papers and all the new excellent research that is being done. #Wellington #DukeofWellington
April 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Wishing everyone attending the #WellingtonCongress at Southampton a great time. I wish I was there again - it was such fun! Look forward to hearing about the papers and all the new excellent research that is being done. #Wellington #DukeofWellington
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A Little History of the World -E.H. Gombrich
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Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen @rorymuir.bsky.social
A Little History of the World -E.H. Gombrich
Women in Intelligence - Helen Fry
Goodbye Globalization @elisabethbraw.bsky.social
Why Marx Was Right -Terry Eagleton
Claim your free eBook: yalebooks.co.uk/free-ebook/
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen @rorymuir.bsky.social
A Little History of the World -E.H. Gombrich
Women in Intelligence - Helen Fry
Goodbye Globalization @elisabethbraw.bsky.social
Why Marx Was Right -Terry Eagleton
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Can any one help me with a little French transcription? The underlined section is General Junot speaking to Colonel Murrary during negotiations about the Russian fleet in Lisbon, after the battle of Vimeiro.
March 17, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Can any one help me with a little French transcription? The underlined section is General Junot speaking to Colonel Murrary during negotiations about the Russian fleet in Lisbon, after the battle of Vimeiro.
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In case @rorymuir.bsky.social hasn't seen it, apparently this was the front window of Hatchards in London this week... (Credit Anna Vakulenko)
February 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
In case @rorymuir.bsky.social hasn't seen it, apparently this was the front window of Hatchards in London this week... (Credit Anna Vakulenko)
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Re-posting with the corrected link.
Look at this gorgeous collection of Regency-era clothes and accessories. (Thanks to @alexdecampi.bsky.social for the link.)
www.kerrytaylorauctions.com/auction/deta...
Look at this gorgeous collection of Regency-era clothes and accessories. (Thanks to @alexdecampi.bsky.social for the link.)
www.kerrytaylorauctions.com/auction/deta...
Empire of Fashion: The Barreto Lancaster Collection of Napoleonic & Regency Dress
View our current auction and future lots. Established in 2003, Kerry Taylor is the world’s leading auction house specialising in vintage fashion, fine antique costume and textiles.
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January 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Re-posting with the corrected link.
Look at this gorgeous collection of Regency-era clothes and accessories. (Thanks to @alexdecampi.bsky.social for the link.)
www.kerrytaylorauctions.com/auction/deta...
Look at this gorgeous collection of Regency-era clothes and accessories. (Thanks to @alexdecampi.bsky.social for the link.)
www.kerrytaylorauctions.com/auction/deta...