As part of the Co-ordinator’s effort to ‘Roadshow’ the ‘academic perspective’ that is military welfare history, the Network providing a panel at the ESSH conference at Leiden in March 2025. The panel comprised:
Chair/Discussant:
- Dr Paul Huddie (Military Welfare History Network)
Panel Presenters:
- Dragos Ianc (Babes Bolyai University)
- Dr Michael Reeve (The Open University)
- Dr Michael Robinson (University of Birmingham)
- Abby S. Whitlock (Independent Scholar)
The panel outline and the individual paper abstracts can be viewed here.
Organised and chaired by Dr Paul Huddie, the panel was entitled ‘Military Welfare Throughout History: four case studies’ and comprised the following papers by the following presneters:
Dragos Ianc: ‘”Realinvaliden, Halbinvaliden”: monitoring disability among Habsburg officers during the first half of the 19th century’
Abby Whitlock: ‘”Perfect Health, Mechanical Mind”: Morale, Mental Health, and Judgments of Character in the Royal Flying Corps, 1914-1918’
Dr Michael Robinson: ‘War, Trauma and the Great Depression: The Treatment and Experiences of British Great War Veterans’
Michael Reeve: ‘Steadying Nerves: Tobacco, Stress, and Wartime Well-being in Britain, 1854-1945’
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