About the speakers
Dr Eamonn O’Keeffe is the National Army Museum Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2022. Eamonn’s work has received the André Corvisier Prize, awarded by the International Commission for Military History, and the Pollard Prize, awarded by the Institute for Historical Research.
Mark Urban is a journalist, broadcaster and military historian. He covered international affairs for the BBC’s Newsnight programme for over 30 years and is the author of more than a dozen books, including ‘Fusiliers’, which tells the story of the British Army’s campaigns in Revolutionary America through the experiences of one regiment.
Kevin Weddle is a Distinguished Fellow at the US Army War College, the former Professor of Military Theory and Strategy, and the Elihu Root Chair of Military Studies. He is a retired US Army colonel and a veteran of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and Operation Enduring Freedom. His second book, ‘The Compleat Victory’, has won the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History, the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award and the Society of the Cincinnati Prize.
Friederike Baer is Associate Professor of History and Division Head for Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, Abington College. Her research focuses on the experiences of German-speaking people in North America from the Revolutionary period to the late 19th century. Her most recent book, ‘Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War’, examines the experiences of the estimated 30,000 German soldiers who were hired by Britain to help put down the American rebellion.