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Matthew Robert Glozier (born 1972 ) is an Australian-based historian and history teacher.


Early life and education

Glozier was born in
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, in 1972. He attended the
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and obtained a BA (Hons) degree (1990–93) and an
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in History (1997). He was awarded a Commonwealth Research Scholarship to complete a PhD at the
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, entitled Scottish Soldiers in France and The Netherlands, 1660–1692 (conferred 2002).


Academic career

Glozier has written works on expatriate soldier groups of French
Huguenot The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...
and Scottish extraction. As Official Historian of the
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he is currently preparing for publication a history of Australian Air Force cadets, 1941-2016, for the 75th anniversary diamond jubilee of the AAFC. He is also slowly compiling a volume of biographical reference relating to French refugee soldiers serving in armies across Europe circa 1685–1713. The project grew out of his earlier
prosopographical Prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a group of people, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable. Research subjects are analysed by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line an ...
research into the Huguenot military support lent to William of Orange during the Glorious Revolution of 1688. This is the subject of his monograph, published by Sussex Academic Press in 2002. A second book, ''Scottish Soldiers in France in the Reign of the Sun King: Nursery for Men of Honour History of Warfare'': 24 (Brill Academic Publishers), based on his doctoral thesis, appeared in 2004. He has written and revised nine articles for the
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and his most recent biography is the first scholarly long study of Friedrich Hermann von Schomberg to be written in English based on new research: ''Marshal Schomberg, 1615–1690: ‘the ablest soldier of his age’: International soldiering and the formation of state armies in seventeenth–century Europe'' (Sussex Academic Press, 2005). The book has been called an "accessible study" that should "do much to rescue its subject's life and career from undeserved neglect". Glozier’s most recent work is a book on Huguenot
soldiers A soldier is a person who is a member of an army. A soldier can be a conscripted or volunteer enlisted person, a non-commissioned officer, or an officer. Etymology The word ''soldier'' derives from the Middle English word , from Old French ...
in armies across Europe, co-edited with Dr David Onnekink (Utrecht University) – ''War, religion and service: Huguenot soldiering, 1685–1713'' (Ashgate Academic Publishers, 2007). A foreword to the book was contributed by
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who claimed ‘it is the first study of its kind to treat consistently the military contribution made by the Huguenots to armies outside France at the high point of their historical importance as a historical group.’. The collection deals with areas of Huguenot studies often neglected by Anglophone research. Glozier is widely published as a
military historian Military history is the study of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to local and international relationships. Professional historians norma ...
, interested in military, social and religious aspects; he analyses migration streams and the social and religious stratification of soldier
refugee A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.
groups, in volumes that appeal to academic and to interested general readers and whose international scope is useful for those seeking to explore the nexus of British and European military and political history. He explores the rise of
nationalism Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...
, the transition from contract-based military service to the reliance on standing forces, and
religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...
as a chief motivation for many soldiers. Matthew is a co–founder of the Huguenot Society of Australia (begun in 2002) and a Fellow of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He was appointed Official Historian of the Australian Air Force Cadets organization in 2013. Matthew is an Honorary Associate of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Centre (University of Sydney), President of the Sydney Society for Scottish History, and a History Master at Sydney Grammar School.


Personal life

Matthew is married to Francesca and they have two children, Max and Charlotte. He coaches and writes about
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, a sport he has enjoyed since he was at school. He is currently researching Classical Fencing. He is a volunteer Officer of Cadets in the Australian Air Force Cadets and an enthusiastic owner of German Shorthaired Pointer dogs.


Publications


Books

*''Sydney Grammar School and the South African War, 1899-1902.'' Raleigh, NC: M. R. Glozier, Pending. Pp. xvi, 286. ISBN , 978-1-326-53370-0 *''75 Years Aloft: Australian Air Force Cadets (Royal Australian Air Force Air Training Corps), 1941-2016.'' Canberra: Defence Printing Service, 2016. Pp. xx, 428. *''Marshal Schomberg, 1615–1690: the ablest soldier of his age: international soldiering and the formation of state armies in seventeenth–century Europe.'' Brighton, Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 249. *''Scottish soldiers in France in the reign of the Sun King: nursery for men of honour.'' History of Warfare Series: 24. Leiden, Boston, Köln: E. J. Brill, 2004. Pp. xvi, 290. *''The Huguenot soldiers of William of Orange and the Glorious Revolution of 1688: the lions of Judah.'' Brighton, Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 240. *with David Onnekink (eds), ''War, religion and service: Huguenot soldiering, 1685–1713. Politics and Culture in North-West Europe 1650-1720.'' Aldershot: Ashgate Academic Publishers, 2007. Pp. xvi, 316.


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Dr Matthew Glozier, Centre For Medieval Studies Faculty of Arts University of Sydney
{{DEFAULTSORT:Glozier, Matthew Robert University of Sydney alumni Australian historians Australian military historians Historians of Europe Australian people of Scottish descent 1972 births Living people Western Sydney University alumni