Overview

Thanks to the generous funding of the Wellcome Trust, through the Society for the Social History of Medicine, in 2025-26 the MWHN ran a three-part series of events. Entitled the ‘The Military Communities’ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series’, this series comprised three accessible hybrid network events, which took place in the UK and online (via Zoom) over the course of the twenty-four months of the award. All of which focussed on the burgeoning ‘perspective’ of military welfare history; defined as the welfare, care and medical provisions afforded to service personnel, their families and other dependents.

Programmes

Highlights

For more details on each event, click here.

Outputs

Special Issue

A selection of the conference’s papers and additional papers were invited to contribute to a special issue of the Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, which will be edited by Dr Paul Huddie and Network member Dr Michael Robinson and will be published in Fall 2027. More here.

Podcasts

Thirteen conference papers were also recorded and can be found on the Network’s podcast pages here.

Hosting and Funding

The Military Welfare History Network was indebted to the generous support of the University of Birmingham for hosting both in-person events and to the UCD Centre for War Studies for hosting the online event. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support for these events was provided by by the Society for the Social History of Medicine through a Wellcome/SSHM Network Grant (2024).