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 2024:
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)
Dr Joanne E. Ball, University of Liverpool
‘These Feelings Inside: Mental Health in the Roman Imperial Army’
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’
Past Events:
18-21 April 2024 – Society for Military History Annual Conference
This conference played host to over a score of Network members who participated as discussants, presenters and chairs. It was a wonderful occasion for so many members to meet face to face, some for the first time, and to share their research in this field.
Members participated in over a dozen panels and these included a very important one on the definition of military welfare history. The panel also sought to better inform others within the academy about this ‘new’ field of scholarship.
Roundtable: ‘Military Welfare History: A State of the Field (or Subfield? Or Bridge between Fields? Or, What is it, Exactly?)’
Featuring:
Dr Amy Rutenberg, Iowa State University
Dr Paul Huddie, University College Dublin
Prof Jennifer Mittlestadt, Rutgers University
Dr Anndal Narayanan, Virginia Tech University
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Another was:
Panel: ‘Driving and Maintaining Military Morale’
Featuring:
Dr Paul Huddie, University College Dublin (Chair)
Nicholas Bailey, University of Leeds
‘Each officer attending the parade may feel satisfied that his former comrades are still animated by their old and invincible
spirit’: representing the morale of ex-servicemen in the British Corps of Commissionaires during the late Victorian period’
Mary Brazier, University of Wolverhampton
‘”Flying Stress”: How Psychologists and Psychiatrists supported the development of doctrine in the Royal Air Force prior to
and during the Second World War’
Abby Whitlock, Independent Scholar
‘The “Super-cultural USO” : Wartime Amenities, Morale, and American Identity at the National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C.’
20 May 2023, ‘Homecoming’ after War: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives’, University of Warwick
1. Dr Amy Carney (Pennsylvania State University) ‘Where is Home? The Experience of a German-Jew in the American Army’
2. Professor Alison Fell (University of Liverpool) ‘Female Combatants, Demobilisation and Post-War Memory Cultures’
3. Dr Michael Robinson (University of Liverpool) ‘The ‘Prematurely Aged Ex-Serviceman’ Debate of the 1930s: A Tri-National Case Study’
4. Nick Bailey (University of Leeds) ‘Military masculinity, disability and civilian transition within the Corps of Commissionaires in Victorian and Edwardian Britain’
5. Dr Robin Bates (University of Cambridge/University of Warwick) ‘Veterans in a New Field? Veterans’ Rights in the Post-Civil War United States, 1865-1907’
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