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Eamonn O’Keeffe

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Pratt Fellow in History at Memorial University, Newfoundland. https://eamonnokeeffe1812.com/

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Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Nov 8

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...

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Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · 3d

Out of season?

Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you - I’m delighted to be joining MUN!

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 5d

A great pleasure to welcome Dr. Eamonn O'Keefe (@1812andallthat.bsky.social) to our department as our new Pratt Fellow in Military, Maritime, and Naval History. #MilitaryHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory

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Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · 9d

Man named James O’Loan says he can’t offer credit 🤔

Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · 10d

An excellent episode as always - thank you!

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 25d

FT mag piece from me: Spent a long time looking into the Britannia hotel chain, beneficiaries of a vast amount of taxpayer money via the asylum system

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The crumbling seaside palaces at the centre of Britain’s asylum crisis

[FREE TO READ] How one hotelier built an empire from beloved community assets — and a government struggling to cope with a surge in migration

on.ft.com

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Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Sep 15

This Friday marked the anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Read my latest blog post for reflections on the course and consequences of the 1759 Quebec campaign: eamonnokeeffe1812.com/2024/09/13/t...

The Battle for Quebec, 1759

View of the Taking of Quebec, 13 September 1759 (National Army Museum, 1971-02-33-314-1) This week I gave a speech in London at a dinner commemorating the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. I've decided...

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Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · 26d

The bagels’ only hope is the Scarlet Pumpernickel

Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

Photo of the plaque to John and JG Hopkinson on Free School Lane, Cambridge

Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Sep 1

The recording of my recent talk for the National Army Museum is now available on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-FT...

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Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social · Aug 29

Interesting to hear @1812andallthat.bsky.social present on disabled veteran Shadrack Byfield & the War of 1812 for @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social this afternoon! Byfield had his arm amputated & later had an attachment made so that he could return to weaving (which obvs interested me lots) #DisHist

Opening slide of a presentation. The slide is predominantly green with black text reading: Searching for Shadrack Byfield. There is a drawing of two men to the left side of the slide: of notice is the man facing the viewers who has a wooden artificial leg.

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Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you so much for tuning in!

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Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Aug 27

Looking forward to giving this Friday lunchtime talk about a War of 1812 veteran who lost an arm, wrote multiple memoirs and designed his own prosthesis. Register to attend either in person and online.
www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/sea...

Searching for Shadrack Byfield

Join Dr Eamonn O’Keeffe as he explores the War of 1812 through the eyewitness account of a disabled British veteran of the conflict.

www.nam.ac.uk

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Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Aug 24

‘unhandsomely treated’, I think.

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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · Aug 18

breaking into the exhibit and putting this thing on to gain the Power of Free Speech but the first thing that comes out of my mouth is “Barry Lyndon is too long” and the crowd immediately turns on me

Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · Aug 18

guys I’m off this week … went to the norman rockwell museum. found the meme in real life — and his jacket

norman rockwell’s famous “freedom of speech” oil painting

an old jacket in a glass case, which belonged to the model in the painting

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Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Aug 12

Did they realise you were the author?

Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Aug 1

'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).

Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Jul 19

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...

Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Jul 16

Ouch! (from a book review...)

He thought he knew the answers before he began and nothing in the sources was allowed to spring out and surprise him. Yet openness to surprise is one thing that makes works of history original, and fun. History, like music, is a highly skilled enter-prise, not always best performed by amateurs.

Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Jun 27

Great to see the Crown Forces Drums turning out in force for the Waterloo 210th anniversary proceedings.

Tom Fournier @tom4141tom.bsky.social · Jun 27

So our marvellous Drums were out in Brussels and created a stir!

Video to follow in the future but they made me extremely proud!

Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Jun 25

Bon voyage! Enjoy the Waterloo events.

Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Jun 17

It may be one of those dates folks think they know and so don’t bother to check.

Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social · Jun 17

Very true, and exact dates aren’t the most important thing by any stretch. But I continue to be amazed by the number of historians who insist on mentioning the precise month and day of the Battle of Waterloo, only to get it wrong.

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