Dr Eamonn O'Keeffe

I am the National Army Museum Research Fellow at Queens’ College in Cambridge. I am also affiliated with the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics. My research interests include military music, duelling and honour among army officers, and the broader connections between war and society in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

I completed a DPhil thesis on British military music during the Napoleonic Wars at the University of Oxford in 2022. The resulting research, which I am publishing as a book, was awarded the André Corvisier Prize by the International Commission of Military History and the Pollard Prize by the Institute for Historical Research. An Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, I previously served as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and a Trustee of the Society for Army Historical Research. I have published several peer-reviewed articles and discussed my work widely in the media, appearing twice on the BBC’s hit family history show, Who Do You Think You Are?

Besides pursuing my research, I convene the Military History Working Group at the Centre for Geopolitics and teach a range of papers for the Cambridge History Tripos. I also collaborate with the National Army Museum to promote greater public understanding of their collections.