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Dr Michael Duffy
MA DPhil Oxon
Honorary University Fellow
3294
01392 723294
Overview
My main research interests cover all aspects of the British response to the French Revolutionary and Napoleon and I have published on the political, diplomatic and military/naval aspects of that era. I also have wider interests in maritime and in naval history since 1689.
Research
British politics and foreign and military policy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Naval history since 1689, particularly the Revolutionary-Napoleonic War period 1792-1815, dockyards and naval logistics.
Supervision
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British history, particularly political, diplomatic and military
Naval history since 1689
Research students
Recently completed PhD supervisions
Philip Weir, "The Royal Navy, the Fleet Air Arm and tactical development in the inter-war period (1918-39)" (2007)
Helen Doe, "Enterprising women: nineteenth-century maritime businesswomen" (2007)
Roger Parkinson, "The Naval Defence Act of 1889 and the origins of the new navalism of the 1890s" (2007)
Oliver Walton, "The social history of the late Victorian navy" (2004)
Kathleen Harland, "The early development of Royal Naval Hospitals" (2004)
Ivor Howcroft, "The Role of the Royal Navy in the Amphibious Assaults of the Second World War" (2002)
Wanda Troman, "Anglo-Polish naval relations between the two World Wars" PhD 2000.
Mary Cross, "The Victorian and Edwardian naval officer-corps" (2000)
Robert Hicks, "The Ideology of Maritime Museums, with Particular Reference to the Interpretation of Early Modern Navigation" (2000)
Thomas N.R. Wareham, "The role of the frigate captain in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars" (1999)
Publications
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| 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | 1989 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1982 |
2008
- Duffy M. (2008) The development of British naval thinking: Essays in memory of Bryan McLaren Ranft, INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW, volume 30, no. 1, pages 134-136. [PDF]
- Duffy M. (2008) Naval Engagements: Patriotism, Cultural Politics, and the Royal Navy, 1793-1815, ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, volume 123, no. 504, pages 1308-1310, DOI:10.1093/ehr/cen268. [PDF]
- Duffy M. (2008) Resisting Napoleon: The British response to the threat of invasion, 1797-1815, HISTORY, volume 93, no. 310, pages 284-285, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-229X.2008.423_28.x. [PDF]
- Duffy M. (2008) Brunel's Hidden Kingdom. The full story of the estate he created and his planned house at Watcombe, Torquay, AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW, volume 56, pages 230-231. [PDF]
2007
- Duffy M. (2007) British Intelligence and the break-out of the French fleet from Brest in 1799, Intelligence and National Security, volume 22, no. 5.
2006
- Duffy M. (2006) The French navy and the Seven Years' War, HISTORY, volume 91, no. 302, pages 300-301. [PDF]
- Duffy M. (2006) Salamanca, 1812, WAR IN HISTORY, volume 13, no. 2, pages 239-241, DOI:10.1177/096834450601300208. [PDF]
- Duffy M. (2006) The hidden Trafalgar - dull winds or dull captains?, MARINERS MIRROR, volume 92, no. 2, pages 226-230, DOI:10.1080/00253359.2006.10656998. [PDF]
2005
- Duffy M. (2005) '...All was hushed up': The hidden Trafalgar, MARINERS MIRROR, volume 91, no. 2, pages 216-2U8, DOI:10.1080/00253359.2005.10656946. [PDF]
- Duffy M. (2005) The hidden Trafalgar, MARINERS MIRROR, volume 91, no. 3, pages 481-481. [PDF]
- Duffy M. (2005) Representing the royal navy: British sea power, 1750-1815, JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY, volume 33, no. 1, pages 124-125. [PDF]
- Duffy M. (2005) 'All was hushed up'. The hidden Trafalgar, The Mariners Mirror, volume 91, no. 2, pages 216-240.
- Duffy M. (2005) The gunnery at Trafalgar: training, tactics or temperament?, for Maritime Research (e-journal).
- Duffy M. (2005) Sir Samuel Hood, British Admirals of the Napoleonic Wars: Contemporaries of Nelson, Chatham Publishing, 323-345.
2004
- Duffy M. (2004) La artilleria en Trafalgar: adiestramiento, tactica y moral de combate, Trafalgar y el mundo altantico, Marcel Pons Historia, 127-144.
- Duffy M. (2004) Christian's fleet: A Dorset shipping tragedy, MARINERS MIRROR, volume 90, no. 4, pages 493-494. [PDF]
- Duffy M. (2004) ‘Sir Samuel Hood’, ‘Sir William Hoste’, ‘Sir Robert Waller Otway’, ‘Sir Samuel Pym’, ‘Sir Thomas Staines’, ‘Sir Richard Strachan’, ‘James Walker’, ‘Sir Nesbit Josiah Willoughby’, ‘Sir James Lucas Yeo,’ ‘Gilbert Elliot, Lord Minto’, ‘Sir George Duckett’', The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.
2003
- Duffy M. (2003) Navy Records Society Volume 146, The Naval Miscellany Volume IV, Ashgate.
- Duffy M. (2003) 'Edmund Dummer's 'Account of the General Progress and Advancement of His Majesty's New Dock and Yard at Plymouth, December 1694', The Naval Miscellany Vol 6, Navy Records Society, 93-147.
- Duffy M. (2003) Letters from Revolutionary France: Letters written in France to a friend in London, between the month of November 1794 and the month of May 1795, MARINERS MIRROR, volume 89, no. 2, pages 243-244. [PDF]
2002
- Duffy M. (2002) Contested Empires 1756-1815, Short History of the British Isles 1688-1815, Oxford University Press, 213-242.
2001
- Duffy M, Morriss R. (2001) The Glorious First of June 1794: A Naval Battle and its Aftermath, University of Exeter Press.
- Duffy M. (2001) '"Science and Labour". The Naval Contribution to Operations Ashore in the Great Wars with France 1793-1815', Seapower Ashore: 200 years of Extraordinary Nanal Operations, Chatham, 39-52.
- Duffy M. (2001) 'The man who missed the grain convoy: Rear Admiral George Montagu and the arrival of Vasntabel's convoy from America in 1794', The Glorious First of June: A naval battle and its aftermath, Exeter Maritime Studies, 101-119.
2000
- Duffy M. (2000) The perfidy of Albion: French perceptions of England during the French Revolution, INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW, volume 22, no. 2, pages 402-404. [PDF]
1999
- Duffy M. (1999) The prizes of war: The naval prize system in the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815, MARINERS MIRROR, volume 85, no. 2, pages 231-232. [PDF]
- Duffy M. (1999) Tobago in wartime, 1793-1814, AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, volume 104, no. 1, pages 228-229, DOI:10.2307/2650282. [PDF]
1998
- Duffy M. (1998) Sir Charles Grey, 'First Earl Grey', royal soldier, family patriarch, ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, volume 113, no. 453, pages 1003-1003. [PDF]
- Duffy M. (1998) British naval intelligence and Bonaparte's Egyptian expedition of 1798, MARINERS MIRROR, volume 84, no. 3, pages 278-290, DOI:10.1080/00253359.1998.10656699. [PDF]
- Duffy M. (1998) The Younger Pitt and the House-of-Commons (Government, Parliament, British), HISTORY, volume 83, no. 270, pages 217-224, DOI:10.1111/1468-229X.00069. [PDF]
1996
- Duffy M. (1996) William Pitt and the origins of the Loyalist-Association-Movement of 1792, HISTORICAL JOURNAL, volume 39, no. 4, pages 943-962, DOI:10.1017/S0018246X00024717. [PDF]
1995
- DUFFY M. (1995) AN IMPERIAL STATE AT WAR - BRITAIN FROM 1698 TO 1815 - STONE,L, SCRIBLERIAN AND THE KIT-CATS, volume 28, no. 1-2, pages 104-104. [PDF]
1994
- DUFFY M. (1994) 100 DAYS - NAPOLEON ROAD TO WATERLOO - SCHOM,A, HISTORY, volume 79, no. 256, pages 342-343. [PDF]
- DUFFY M. (1994) YELLOW-JACK AND THE WORM - BRITISH NAVAL ADMINISTRATION IN THE WEST-INDIES, 1739-1748 - CREWE,D, JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY, volume 22, no. 3, pages 562-563. [PDF]
- DUFFY M. (1994) COUNTERPOINT TO TRAFALGAR - THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN INVASION OF NAPLES, 1805-1806 - FLAYHART,WH, HISTORY, volume 79, no. 256, pages 341-342. [PDF]
1993
- DUFFY M. (1993) THE EMPIRES IN WAR AND PEACE 1793-1860 - 2ND ANGLO-FRENCH CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF THE NAVY - FRENCH - FREEMAN,E, MARINERS MIRROR, volume 79, no. 1, pages 109-110. [PDF]
- DUFFY M. (1993) THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812 - A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY, VOL 2 - DUDLEY,WS, HISTORY, volume 78, no. 254, pages 456-457. [PDF]
- DUFFY M. (1993) THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN 1789-1830 - 3RD ANGLO-FRENCH CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF THE NAVY (FRENCH), MARINERS MIRROR, volume 79, no. 1, pages 109-110. [PDF]
- DUFFY M. (1993) FLEURIEU AND THE NAVY OF HIS ERA - FRENCH - BONNEL,U, MARINERS MIRROR, volume 79, no. 3, pages 363-363. [PDF]
1992
- DUFFY M. (1992) REALISM AND TRADITION IN 18TH-CENTURY BRITISH FOREIGN-POLICY, HISTORICAL JOURNAL, volume 35, no. 1, pages 227-232, DOI:10.1017/S0018246X0002570X. [PDF]
- DUFFY M. (1992) AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE IN THE 18TH-CENTURY - THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO THE WEST-INDIES, 1740-1742 - HARDING,R, JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY, volume 20, no. 1, pages 132-133. [PDF]
1991
- DUFFY M. (1991) THE FRENCH-REVOLUTION - AN ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION - AFTALION,F, HISTORY, volume 76, no. 248, pages 510-511. [PDF]
1990
- DUFFY M. (1990) STUDYING NEW-ZEALAND HISTORY - WOOD,GA, HISTORY, volume 75, no. 244, pages 287-287. [PDF]
1989
- DUFFY M. (1989) NAPOLEON MARSHALS - CHANDLER,D, HISTORY, volume 74, no. 241, pages 329-330. [PDF]
- DUFFY M. (1989) THE NEW-ZEALAND WARS AND THE VICTORIAN INTERPRETATION OF RACIAL CONFLICT - BELICH,J, HISTORY, volume 74, no. 241, pages 288-289. [PDF]
1987
- DUFFY M. (1987) NAPOLEON 1812 - NICOLSON,N, HISTORY, volume 72, no. 234, pages 186-186. [PDF]
- DUFFY M. (1987) THE HAITIAN JOURNAL OF LIEUTENANT HOWARD, YORK-HUSSARS, 1796-1798 - BUCKLEY,RN, EDITOR, HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, volume 67, no. 1, pages 161-162, DOI:10.2307/2515223. [PDF]
- DUFFY M. (1987) THE SPANISH ULCER - A HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR - GATES,D, HISTORY, volume 72, no. 235, pages 359-360. [PDF]
1986
- DUFFY M. (1986) WAR WITHOUT VICTORY - THE DOWNFALL OF PITT, 1799-1802 - MACKESY,P, BRITISH JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, volume 9, no. 1, pages 84-85. [PDF]
- DUFFY M. (1986) THE BRITISH AND THE GRAND-TOUR - BLACK,J, BRITISH JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, volume 9, no. 2, pages 234-234. [PDF]
1985
- DUFFY M. (1985) NAPOLEON AND IBERIA - THE TWIN SIEGES OF CIUDAD RODRIGO AND ALMEIDA, 1810 - HORWARD,DD, HISTORY, volume 70, no. 229, pages 315-315. [PDF]
1982
- DUFFY M. (1982) THE NOISE, EMPTY, FLUTTERING FRENCH ENGLISH IMAGES OF THE FRENCH, 1689-1815, HISTORY TODAY, volume 32, no. SEP, pages 21-26. [PDF]
Biography
Lincoln College Oxford (BA History 1966); MA, D.Phil. (1971)
Assistant Lecturer in History, University of Exeter 1969-72; Lecturer 1972-88; Senior Lecturer 1988-2001; Reader in British History 2001-6, Associate Professor of History 2006-
Dean of Arts 1994-7, Head of History 1999-2003, Director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies 1991-2007
More information
University of Exeter - Dean of Arts 1994-7, Head of History 1999-2003, Director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies 1991-2007
Fellow of Royal Historical Society, member of the Navy Records Society and the Society for Nautical Research
Editor of The Mariner’s Mirror. The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research (1991-2000); Member of Council 1990-2004.
Vice President (1993-6, 2004-7) and member of Council and of publications committee, Navy Records Society since 1993
Member of the British Commission of the International Commission for Maritime History since 1993.
Trustee, Devonport Naval Base Museum
External examiner: BA and MA Birmingham (1994-97); BA Southampton (1998-2001); PhDs at Cambridge (1989), LSE (1990), Oxford (1991), East Anglia (1992), Birmingham (1993), Glasgow (1993), Portsmouth (1995), Essex (1997), KCL (2000), Bristol (2001), Murdoch University (Perth, Aus)(2002), Edinburgh (2004), Kent (2004), KCL (2006)