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The International Network for Crimean War Studies
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INCWS fosters communication between individuals around the globe who research or have published/presented scholarship on/related to the Crimean War. Visit https://crimeanwarnetwork.wordpress.com/
New Member. We are very happy to welcome Prof Rasmus Glenthøj, Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark to the Network. His CRIMESCAN project is a very exciting and long-overdue look at the goings-on during and impacts of the #CrimeanWar
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
It is with great pleasure that we can report that a dedicated #CrimeanWar project will soon begin at the University of Southern Denmark led by Rasmus Glenthøj. Running from 2026 to 2029 it will focus on #Scandinavia from 1852-9

Watch this space for more going forward.
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
It is with great pleasure that we can report that a dedicated #CrimeanWar project will soon begin at the University of Southern Denmark led by Rasmus Glenthøj. Running from 2026 to 2029 it will focus on #Scandinavia from 1852-9

Watch this space for more going forward.
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I always find this gravestone for John Duggan, in St Mary's Drogheda, incredibly moving. One of the '600' who rode into the 'Valley of Death' as a 17th Lancer #otd 1854, he survived - but only just. John fought throughout #CrimeanWar & ended his days as Sexton of St Mary's, dying in 1881, aged 67.
October 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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All thanks to @icuf.bsky.social, the RNSHS and Eastlink TV, you can now watch my 'Ireland, Atlantic Canada and the Crimean War' lecture from Halifax back in June 2025 at youtu.be/X5-voQRJNeM #CrimeanWar #Ireland
Podium TV - Ireland, Atlantic Canada and the Crimean War with Dr. Paul Huddie
YouTube video by Eastlink
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November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Ziyi Wang'ın Doğu Sorunu üzerine 2025 tarihli bu tezi Kırım Savaşı kitabıma referans veriyor. #KırımSavaşı #КрымскаяВойна #CrimeanWar
Disruptions to diplomacy: the Eastern Question in the Concert of Europe, 1814-1856 - goo.gl/scholar/1n53Rw #ScholarAlerts @crimeanwar.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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@icuf.bsky.social @crimeanwar.bsky.social The third and final outing for my Dobbin-funded research this year. A great turnout for tonight's seminar, with lots of interesting questions. My thanks to the organisers at UCD History #CrimeanWar #Ireland #Canada
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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#OTD 12 May 1820 the amazing #FlorenceNightingale was born

Today is also celebrated as #InternationalNursesDay, fittingly as she & other strong forward thinking women such as #MarySeacole are who we have to thank for modern day nursing and to whom we all owe so much!
#WomenInSTEM
May 12, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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24th Feb 1915 - unveiling of the statue of #FlorenceNightingale, as part of the memorial to the Crimean War. Meet Florence and learn about her work at Scutari hospital and afterwards, and also learn about #MarySeacole.

www.historyoffthepage.co.uk/virtual-lear...
Florence Nightingale & Mary Seacole - History Off The Page
Meet Florence Nightingale. It is 1854, and Florence is preparing to take a group of nurses to Scutari Hospital in Crimea. Follow Florence on her adventure as she travels to Crimea and back. Topics dis...
www.historyoffthepage.co.uk
January 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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My first draft of Chapter Two, Section One is done! #PhDLife #MarySeacole
March 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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@icuf.bsky.social @crimeanwar.bsky.social Back in Ireland after a brilliant research trip to Toronto & #Canada. Caught up with old colleagues, met new ones, undertook brand new research, presented and learnt a whole lot about how Nova Scotia & Halifax experienced the #CrimeanWar Thank you ICUF
July 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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@icuf.bsky.social @smuarts.bsky.social My sincerest thanks to the RNSHS Committee and Halifax Central Library for hosting my Dobbin-funded talk on #CrimeanWar #AtlanticCanada #Halifax last night
June 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Paid a visit to the Pit Village of Bomarsund, Northumberland today. The colliery here opened in 1854 and was named for the Fortress of Bomarsund, Åland Islands, Finland, where the Royal Navy had been engaged in a famous victory that year. My second Bomarsund of 2025 :-) #Finland
June 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Wishing a warm #Halifax welcome to historian @paulhuddie.bsky.social, Visiting Researcher this summer with our #GorsebrookResearchInstitute for Atlantic Canada Studies! Dr. Huddie is the founder/coordinator of @milwelfhist.bsky.social and @crimeanwar.bsky.social. #SMUHistory @historysmu.bsky.social
@smuarts.bsky.social @icuf.bsky.social I'm well settled in at Gorsebrook Research Institute now; meeting up with colleagues, discussing my project and hurling myself at all the repositories
June 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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If you are around Halifax on Wed 25 June, be sure to drop into the Central Library for my talk, as part of the RNSHS lecture series. Full details attached.
June 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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@icuf.bsky.social Well, my Dobbin-funded research trip to Canada is well under way. With some useful sermons discovered so far to help better understand how Canadians viewed and understood the #CrimeanWar and how that compared to Ireland and Britain. More to come
June 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders) disembarking at the port of Kerch in the Crimea on 22 May 1855, during the Sea of Azov campaign. British, French and Ottoman forces aimed to cut the Russian army's supply line coming into the Crimea via the Kerch Strait and Sea of Azov. #crimeanwar
May 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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6 June 1855: The Allies began the third bombardment of Sevastopol during the Crimean campaign. It enabled the British to advance and capture the Quarries in front of the Redan, and for the French to capture the Mamelon Redoubt ahead of a major assault on the Redan and the Malakov. #CrimeanWar
June 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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5 April 1854: The first troops of the British contingent sent to defend Turkey against Russia arrived at Gallipoli. The force consisted of the Rifle Brigade and the 7th and 11th Companies of the Royal Engineers under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown. #CrimeanWar
April 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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The August 1854 impact scarring at Bomarsund is incredible. 1. Scarring from the naval bombardment at the main fort. 2. Scarring from rifle and artillery fire from the French attack at Brännklint Tower. 3. Scarring from the artillery of the British Battery at Notvik Tower. #Åland #CrimeanWar
April 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The Paddle Steamer HMS Lightning under Bartholomew Sulivan leading a Royal Navy squadron through the Ängösund in 1854, the key event that facilitated the assault and taking of Bomarsund. Photo on right the same view today. #Åland #Finland #CrimeanWar
April 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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#Balaklava
#CrimeanWar
The Charge of the Light Brigade.
An interesting #Liverpool connection?
Edward Seager was born in Wavertree, Liverpool on 11th June 1812. In 1832 he joined the Queens Own Irish Hussars. In 1854 he was a Lieutenant who led one squadron of the 8th Hussars
November 14, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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11 March 1854: Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier onboard the 131-gun steam-powered HMS Duke of Wellington led the first squadron of the Baltic Fleet out from Spithead. His orders from the Foreign Office: to stop Russian warships leaving the Baltic. #CrimeanWar
March 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM