Dear Member
This is to announce that tickets are now on sale for our Symposium in honour of Christopher Duffy, our first Secretary-General and renowned military historian. It will be held at the National Army Museum on 3 June 2023.
There will be speakers presenting papers on various aspects of eighteenth-century military history and the afternoon session will look at the life and work of Professor Duffy. The Keynote speech will be by Professor Guy Rowlands on “Louis XIV, the Camp of Compiègne and the Origins of the Modern Military Exercise”.
Tickets can be booked here –
Please note that there are a limited number of tickets to include lunch at the NAM and these need to be booked by close of play on 18 May at the latest.
There is also the possibility of a national rail strike on this date, so it would be prudent to book other methods of attending the conference if possible.
Best wishes
Tim Gale
Secretary General, BCMH
BCMH Symposium in Memory of Christopher Duffy– programme
Saturday 3 June 2023
National Army Museum, London
To honour the memory of its founding Secretary General, Professor Christopher Duffy (1936-2022), the doyen of military historians of the eighteenth century, who very sadly passed away in November last year, the British Commission for Military History is organising a one-day symposium at the National Army Museum in London.
The symposium features presentations of exciting new research on the military history of the long eighteenth century from BCMH members, along with tributes to Professor Duffy.
For more information, please contact Dr Tim Gale (secgen@bcmh.org.uk) or Dr Adam Storring (adam.storring@kcl.ac.uk).
Programme
10:00 – 10:20 Registration
10:20 – 10:30 – Welcome Address by Professor William Philpott (KCL), President of the British Commission for Military History
10:30 – 12:00 – Panel 1 – Military Operations in the Long Eighteenth Century
Chair: Professor Guy Rowlands (St. Andrew’s)
- Dr Ismini Pells (Oxford) – “Siege Warfare in the English Civil War: The Soldier’s Story”
- Professor Grzegorz Podruczny (Posnan) – “Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval in Fortress Warfare during the Seven Years’ War. The Case of the Siege of the Fortress Glatz in 1760”
- Dr Adam Storring (KCL) – “Frederick the Great and the Changing Character of War”
12:00 – 12:15 – Tea / Coffee Break
12:15– 13:25 – Keynote Lecture
Professor Guy Rowlands (St. Andrew’s) – “Louis XIV, the Camp of Compiègne and the Origins of the Modern Military Exercise”.
Chair: Dr Adam Storring (KCL)
13:25 – 13:55 – Lunch
13:55 – 14:00 Presentation on The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity by Dr Zack White (Southampton)
14:00 – 15:30 – Panel 2 – The Military Experience in the Age of Napoleon
Chair: Professor William Philpott (KCL)
- Dr Graeme Callister (York St. John) – “The Military Experience in the Age of Napoleon”
- Dr Eamonn O’Keeffe (Cambridge) – “British Military Music and Morale during the Napoleonic Wars”
- Dr Zack White (Southampton) – “Beyond Flogging: Dismantling the ‘Capricious and Arbitrary’ Assessment of British Military Law under Wellington”
15:30 – 15:45 – Tea / Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:30 – Keynote Lecture
Dr Paul Harris (Sandhurst) – “Christopher Duffy: A Scholar and his World”
Chair: Professor William Philpott (KCL)
16:30 – 17:00 – Tributes to Christopher Duffy
Dr Duncan Anderson (Sandhurst)
Dr Klaus Schmider (Sandhurst)
17:00 – Retire to the pub