Michael Duffy is a naval historian,
specialising in the Napoleonic war period. He is reader in British history and director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at the
University of Exeter
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Academic career
Duffy earned his BA in history, MA, and DPhil in history at the
University of Oxford
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. Appointed to the faculty of the University of Exeter, he has been assistant lecturer, lecturer, senior lecturer, head of history and dean of arts. Appointed director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies in 1991, he was promoted to reader in British history in 2001.
He has been vice-president of the
Navy Records Society and editor of the
Mariner's Mirror.
Published books
* ''The military revolution and the state, 1500-1800'', edited by Michael Duffy (1980)
* ''Soldiers, sugar and seapower: the British expeditions to the
West Indies
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and the war against revolutionary France'' (1987)
* ''Parameters of British naval power 1650-1850''(1992)
* ''The new maritime history of
Devon
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'', edited by Michael Duffy, et al. (1992, 1994)
* ''Profiles in Power:
The Younger Pitt'' (2000)
* ''
The Glorious First of June: A naval battle and its aftermath'', edited by Roger Morriss and Michael Duffy (2003)
* ''The Naval Miscellany'', Vol. 6,
Navy Records Society, 2003.
* ''Touch and take : The
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval battle, naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy, French and Spanish Navy, Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–De ...
21 October 1805'' (2005)
Contributions to books
* 'Naples between the Great Powers in the Revolutionary Era', in J. Roberston and J. Davis, eds., ''Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century''.
* ''
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (2004) entries for
Sir Samuel Hood, Sir
William Hoste, Sir
Robert Waller Otway
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, Sir
Samuel Pum
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bib ...
, Sir
Thomas Staines, Sir
Richard Strachan,
James Walker, Sir
Nesbit Willoughby
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, Sir
James Lucas Yeo,
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto
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.
*'La artileeria en
Trafalgar: adiestramiento, tactica y moral de combate', in A. Guimera and A Butron (eds), ''Trafalgar y el mundo altantico'', Madrid: Marcel Pons Historia, 2004.
* '
Sir Samuel Hood', in R. Harding and P. LeFevre (eds), ''Contemporaries of Nelson: British admirals 1793-1815'', Chatham Press, 2004.
* 'Preface', in M. Duffy (ed), The Naval Miscellany Vol 6, Ashgate/ Navy/ Records Society, 2003, pp.xi-xiii.
* '
Edmund Dummer', in M.Duffy (ed), ''The Naval Miscellany'', Vol 6, Navy Records Society, 2003, pp. 93–147.
* "Science and Labour". The Naval Contribution to Operations Ashore in the Great Wars with France 1793-1815', in P. Hore (ed), Seapower Ashore: 200 years of Extraordinary Nanal Operations, Chatham, 2001, pp. 39–52.
* 'The man who missed the grain convoy: Rear Admiral
George Montagu and the arrival of Vanstabel's convoy from America in 1794', in M. Duffy and R. Morriss, eds., ''The Glorious First of June: A naval battle and its aftermath'', Exeter Maritime Studies, 2001, pp. 101–19.
* 'Contested Empires 1756-1815', in Paul Langford, ed., ''Short History of the British Isles 1688-1815'', Oxford University Press, pp. 213–42.
References
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English naval historians
Academics of the University of Exeter
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Living people
British maritime historians
Year of birth missing (living people)