Dr. 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

University of Exeter

The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....

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Academic career

Duffy earned his BA in history, MA, and DPhil in history at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

. 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

Navy Records Society

The Navy Records Society was established in 1893 as a scholarly society to publish historical documents that illustrated the history of the Royal Navy. Professor Sir John Knox Laughton and Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge were the key leaders who organized the Society, basing it on the model of earlier...

 and editor of the Mariner's Mirror

Mariner's Mirror

The Mariner's Mirror is the quarterly academic journal of the Society for Nautical Research in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1911 and is abstracted and indexed by Scopus.- Editors :Previous editors-in-chief have been:...

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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 and the war against revolutionary France (1987)

• Parameters of British naval power 1650-1850(1992)

• The new maritime history of Devon
  Devon
  Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...
  
  , edited by Michael Duffy, et al. (1992, 1994)

• Profiles in Power: The Younger Pitt
  William Pitt the Younger
  William Pitt the Younger was a British politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24 . He left office in 1801, but was Prime Minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806...
  
   (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
  Navy Records Society
  The Navy Records Society was established in 1893 as a scholarly society to publish historical documents that illustrated the history of the Royal Navy. Professor Sir John Knox Laughton and Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge were the key leaders who organized the Society, basing it on the model of earlier...
  
  , 2003.

• Touch and take : The Battle of Trafalgar
  Battle of Trafalgar
  The Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars ....
  
   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
  Samuel Hood
  Samuel Hood may refer to:* Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood , British admiral* Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet , British admiral* Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport...
  
  , Sir William Hoste
  William Hoste
  Captain Sir William Hoste, 1st Baronet KCB RN , Royal Navy captain, was the son of Dixon Hoste, rector of Godwick and Tittleshall in Norfolk...
  
  , Sir Robert Waller Otway, Sir Samuel Pum, Sir Thomas Staines
  Thomas Staines
  Sir Thomas Staines, , Captain in the Royal Navy, Knight Commander of the Bath, and of the Sicilian Order of St. Ferdinand and Merit, and Knight of the Ottoman Order of the Crescent....
  
  , Sir Richard Strachan
  Sir Richard Strachan, 6th Baronet
  Sir Richard John Strachan, 6th Baronet GCB was a British officer of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral.-Childhood:...
  
  , James Walker
  James Walker
  -Politics:*James Walker , English MP for Exeter*Sir James Walker, 2nd Baronet , British MP for Beverley*Jimmy Walker , born James J...
  
  , Sir Nesbit Willoughby
  Nesbit Willoughby
  Sir Nesbit Josiah Willoughby was an officer in the British Royal Navy who was knighted in 1827, and made rear-admiral in 1847. He is related to Sir Hugh Willoughby , who also figures in British naval history....
  
  , Sir James Lucas Yeo
  James Lucas Yeo
  Sir James Lucas Yeo KCB was a British naval commander who served in the War of 1812.Yeo was born in Southampton on 7 October 1782, and joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman at the age of 10. He first saw action as a lieutenant aboard a brig in the Adriatic Sea, and distinguished himself during the...
  
  , Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto
  Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto
  Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto PC , known as Sir Gilbert Elliott between 1777 and 1797 and as The Lord Minto between 1797 and 1813, was a Scottish politician diplomat....
  
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• 'La artileeria en Trafalgar
  Battle of Trafalgar
  The Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars ....
  
  : 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
  Edmund Dummer (naval engineer)
  Edmund Dummer was an English naval engineer and shipbuilder who, as Surveyor of the Navy, founded the Royal Navy dockyard at , Plymouth and extended that at Portsmouth. His survey of the Royal Navy Dockyards is a valuable and well-known historic document...
  
  ', 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.