Biography
From Magherally, outside Banbridge in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Saint David's University College, Profysgol Cymru/University of Wales, Lampeter.
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Joint Honours; Archaeology and History; Undergraduate Thesis on 'A Review and Discussion of Irish Battlefield Archaeology', Supervisor, Professor David Austin
Ph.D. in History; External Examiner: Professor Keith Jeffery, M.R.I.A., Internal Examiner: Dr. Patrick Finney, Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Smith, (F.R.Hist.S.).
Delivered two annual keynote lectures at the AGMs of the Military Historical Society, London; 2007,'150 Years On: the British Army on campaign, 1854-1857' (at the National Army Museum) and 2010 'Ready to Move at a Moment's Warning: the British Army in the 1798 United Irish Campaign' (at the Imperial War Museum).
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Gavin Hughes (with J. Trigg), 'Mass Burial and the 1798 United Irishmen's Rebellion: history, folk memory and archaeology' , 'Forschungen zur Archäologie im Land Brandenburg', Tagungsband "Schlachtfeld und Massengrab" - Proceedings of the "Battlefield and Mass Graves" conference ., "Schlachtfeld und Massengrab" - "Battlefield and Mass Graves" , Brandenburg, November 2011, Brandenburg State Archaeological Service, 2013
'Fourteenth-Century Weaponry, Armour and Warfare in Chaucer and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' in, Chaucer in Context: a Golden Age of English Poetry, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2012, [Gavin Hughes]
Gavin Hughes, The Hounds of Ulster - A History of the Northern Irish Regiments in the Great War , Oxford, Peter Lang, 2012
Gavin Hughes, 'Conference Review - 'Warfare in Antiquity: Approaches and Controversies' University College Dublin', 2011, -
Research Expertise
Description
The application of Military Historical methodology and narratives with Archaeological Theory and Practice. The Roman Army during the Early Imperial Period (specifically the Agricola campaigns in Wales and Scotland). Warfare in the British Isles from late Antiquity to the high medieval (specifically the early Norse and Hastings campaigns and 1st to 3rd Crusades). Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century warfare (including practical chivalry, arms and armour). The English Civil War and Thirty Years' War. The Glorious Revolution (specifically Boyne and Aughrim campaigns). The Seven Years' War (general interest). The Napoleonic Wars (specifically 1798 Irish Rebellion and Waterloo campaign). The Crimean War (specifically the Alma and Balaklava campaigns). Victorian Campaigns in Indian and Africa (specifically the Indian Mutiny, North-West Frontier and Zulu/Boer Wars). The Great War (specifically Ulster / Irish Regiments). The Second World War (general interest).Recognition
Awards and Honours
Honorary Member of the combined Royal Marines' & Parachute Regiment Association (Northern Ireland Branch)
Honorary Member of the Queen's Royal Hussars Historical Association
Honorary Life Member, Lampeter Students' Union (NUS)
Memberships
Member of Royal Society of Irish Antiquaries
Member of Royal Archaeological Institute
Member of the Military Historical Society.
Committee member of Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group
Member of Conflict Archaeology International Research Network [CAIRN]