As well as running its own conferences every couple of years, the MWHN also encourages and supports its Members in coming together to participate in panels at other academic events around the world. This includes:
Upcoming Events in 2025-26:
Thanks to the generous funding of the Wellcome Trust, through the Society for the Social History of Medicine, in 2025-26 the MWHN will run the ‘The Military Communities’ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series‘.
Full details and the call for papers can be found here.
Past Events:
26-29 March 2025 – European Social Sciences History Conference
6-8 June 2024 – 1st Annual Conference of the Military History Consortium
Panel: ‘Military Welfare Throughout History: three case studies’
Featuring:
Nick Bailey, University of Leeds (chair)
Prof Jessica Meyer, University of Leedss
‘Returning to Work, Framing British ex-servicemen after the First World War’
Dr Quentin Verreycken, Catholic University Louvain
‘A Violent Homecoming: Crimes and Returning Soldiers in the Hundred Years’ War’
Dr Michael Reeve, Open University
‘”An All-Powerful Panacea To A Soldier In The Field”: Tobacco, Welfare, and Wartime Well-Being in Britain, 1853-1945’
Additional papers were given by:
Nick Bailey, University of Leeds
‘”The most competent and most natural trustees of the future interests of the men they have trained”:
Regimental Obligation in the civilian Corps of Commissionaires, 1859 to 1914′
Mary Brazier, University of Wolverhampton
‘”Shell Shock to Flying Stress”: How understanding of the Psychological Impact of service in RAF Bomber
Command developed from 1917 to 1947′
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