The Disability History Association awards are open! One of the best parts of serving in this organization is getting to celebrate the amazing new scholarship happening in our field. Please consider nominating your work from this past year - and feel free to reach out with any questions! #dishist

My article ‘The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48’ has been published in Parliamentary History Journal 45-1 (2026) Thanks to Naomi Lloyd-Jones for a great job editing Read/download here (open source): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Sounds like a threat 😬

What a joy it's been to co-edit the HJ for the past few years. Sad to step down but very excited to see how the journal grows under its new editorial team!

📢New in JBS! 📗“Imperial Politics, the Dominions, and the Irish Question, 1907–21” by John C. Mitcham Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New article, by the late Aaron Graham, 'Glorious Autarky? Foreign Resources and the British Fiscal-Military State, 1688–1815' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @fiscalmilitary.bsky.social

A very entertaining and interesting article that shows the trouble that ‘dull’ garrison life could breed among young officers…

Just published a new piece for The Lion & the Dragon, the magazine of Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life. It dives into some colourful episodes of officer misconduct during the Napoleonic Wars. If duelling, disorder, and general drama are your thing, have a look: eamonnokeeffe1812.com/2026/01/28/a...

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

📢New in JBS! 📗"From Amputee to Author: Shadrack Byfield and the Making of a War of 1812 Veteran," by Eamonn O'Keefe @1812andallthat.bsky.social Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There's a lot going on the world, but I was glad to see an article of mine published in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Read about Shadrack Byfield, an English War of 1812 veteran who buried his own arm, designed a custom prosthesis, and wrote multiple memoirs: doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

Hard to compete with this research impact: "While I was in prison, everything I had ever researched [as a PhD student] was blown up." 🫡 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

A lost memoir rediscovered by a Cambridge historian in Cleveland, Ohio, reveals the astonishing life of a disabled war veteran in C19th Britain. @1812andallthat.bsky.social found the memoir while he was a National Army Museum Fellow at @queens.cam.ac.uk 👇 www.cam.ac.uk/stories/disa...

A very good talk particularly offers insights into post army life for veterans of the Napoleonic Wars/War of 1812. @1812andallthat.bsky.social

Today we highlight an interesting character from the 41st Regiment. There are not many accounts of the War of 1812 from British rank & file soldiers!

A nice surprise this morning: my article on prison reform from below is out! I believe it’s open access but let me know if you can’t get a copy and would like one. academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Latest article out now in Slavery & Abolition 46, 4 (2025). Makes a wonderful Christmas present for you and your loved ones. Fifty free eprints at: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/R7MPC... #SlaveryArchive

Eamonn is a friend to many of us and an outstanding historian! Byfield was a private in the 41st Regiment and his rare personal account of his adventures feature in many histories of the War of 1812.

In just over a week, our last livestream of the year with @1812andallthat.bsky.social speaking on one of the best known privates of the War of 1812, Shadrach Byfield! www.historysymposium.com/eamonn-okeefe/

Sounds like a promising event!

If you missed Catriona Kennedy's talk yesterday on 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere in the age of revolution', a recording is now available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-dV...

@1812andallthat.bsky.social I have been working my through the AWI discussions you are moderating at NAM. Very well done. Great perspectives.

Very sympathetic to cause of greater education but the presentation of the survey here seems misleading. 85%+ not informed about slavery but 63% of the same sample support apology? Seems like most respondents weren’t able to cite the right figures, rather than not knowing about enslavement at all…

Two Minutes' Silence by Charles Spencelayh (1928) #RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025 #LestWeForget #art 🗃️

In honour of Remembrance Day, we’ve curated a reading list featuring some of our recent military history titles about the Great War. buff.ly/FltpQkO

Great video from the Canadian Conservation Institute on the recent treatment of the Buttrey Manuscript of British military music. Once owned by a fifer in the 34th Regiment during the Napoleonic Wars, it was passed down through family before being donated to a museum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9F...

Everyone at the International Society for First World War Studies is greatly saddened to hear about the passing of Dr Tim Cook. www.warmuseum.ca/news-release...

I enjoyed working with the National Army Museum to interpret this remarkable portrait of a black military bandsman. I'm glad it's now on display and making news. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Want to understand how the original American #NoKings movement won the day? Streaming now...

@ihrlifecycles.bsky.social strikes again with another rising star! Huge congrats to @berrypillot.bsky.social for winning the 2025 @ihr.bsky.social Pollard Prize for: 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool.'🏆🙌🎉

PLEASE TAKE OUR MONEY! With the new academic year now well under way, a reminder that we offer University Research Grants of up to £1,000 for students carrying out research on the British Army or of the land forces of the British Empire & the Commonwealth. Details at: www.sahr.org.uk/university-r...

Tune into this roundtable discussion on the American Revolution, which goes live on Sunday. I'll be speaking to Mark Urban, Kevin Weddle and Friederike Baer about the causes of British defeat – and ultimate American victory – between 1775 and 1783. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpM3...

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

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 🤔

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 on.ft.com/47HEE46

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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).

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...)

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

'The Papers of Admiral George Grey': the latest volume in the Society's Camden series of primary source editions is published today: bit.ly/4kPZYYf The collection, edited by ‪@mhtaylor.bsky.social‬, brings together the letters, journal and memoir of George Grey (1809-1891), son of Earl Grey 1/2

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.