Military Welfare History Network
@milwelfhist.bsky.social
MWHN is an interdisciplinary, all-career-stages networking & dissemination platform for military welfare, care & medical history researchers, projects, journals & charities. Coordinated by @paulhuddie.bsky.social
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2026 MWHN Conference - call for papers!
Join us in Romania next June to discuss all things military welfare and civil society. Deadline: 28 Feb 2026.
CfP attached and full details at militarywelfarehistory.com/2026-confere... #milwelfhist #civilsociety #charity #philanthropy @vahs.bsky.social
Join us in Romania next June to discuss all things military welfare and civil society. Deadline: 28 Feb 2026.
CfP attached and full details at militarywelfarehistory.com/2026-confere... #milwelfhist #civilsociety #charity #philanthropy @vahs.bsky.social
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Got to talk to a great group of secondary school students at the Lycée Mermoz in Ouakam, Dakar earlier about my research, decolonisation and the Algerian War. It was a lot of fun! Looking forward to doing another session next weekend. Thanks to Céline Labrune-Badiane for making this happen.
February 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Got to talk to a great group of secondary school students at the Lycée Mermoz in Ouakam, Dakar earlier about my research, decolonisation and the Algerian War. It was a lot of fun! Looking forward to doing another session next weekend. Thanks to Céline Labrune-Badiane for making this happen.
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TOMORROW! The next session of our seminar series will be a discussion of @davidedgerton.bsky.social manuscript of his upcoming book on the global history of production since 1900 (2027).
#histtech #histsci #histmed #histstm
@kingshistory.bsky.social
#histtech #histsci #histmed #histstm
@kingshistory.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
TOMORROW! The next session of our seminar series will be a discussion of @davidedgerton.bsky.social manuscript of his upcoming book on the global history of production since 1900 (2027).
#histtech #histsci #histmed #histstm
@kingshistory.bsky.social
#histtech #histsci #histmed #histstm
@kingshistory.bsky.social
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Also, a detailed insight into the rapid development of the US Army Medical Corps between 1917 and 1919. From 1,000 to 350,000, with everything needed to support those personnel #milwelfhist #histmed
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Also, a detailed insight into the rapid development of the US Army Medical Corps between 1917 and 1919. From 1,000 to 350,000, with everything needed to support those personnel #milwelfhist #histmed
February 2, 2026 at 4:23 PM
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Also, a detailed insight into the rapid development of the US Army Medical Corps between 1917 and 1919. From 1,000 to 350,000, with everything needed to support those personnel #milwelfhist #histmed
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Also, a detailed insight into the rapid development of the US Army Medical Corps between 1917 and 1919. From 1,000 to 350,000, with everything needed to support those personnel #milwelfhist #histmed
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Panel 3: two more papers on the #WW1 The first looking shell shock and the Canadian Armed Forces and the second on the US Army Chaplains Corps #milwelfhist
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Panel 3: two more papers on the #WW1 The first looking shell shock and the Canadian Armed Forces and the second on the US Army Chaplains Corps #milwelfhist
February 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Panel 3: two more papers on the #WW1 The first looking shell shock and the Canadian Armed Forces and the second on the US Army Chaplains Corps #milwelfhist
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Panel 3: two more papers on the #WW1 The first looking shell shock and the Canadian Armed Forces and the second on the US Army Chaplains Corps #milwelfhist
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social
Keynote begins! We have been join by the wonderful and enigmatic @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social who is asking, answering and questioning the question 'Why does military welfare history matter?' #milwelfhist
Keynote begins! We have been join by the wonderful and enigmatic @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social who is asking, answering and questioning the question 'Why does military welfare history matter?' #milwelfhist
February 2, 2026 at 2:41 PM
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social
Keynote begins! We have been join by the wonderful and enigmatic @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social who is asking, answering and questioning the question 'Why does military welfare history matter?' #milwelfhist
Keynote begins! We have been join by the wonderful and enigmatic @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social who is asking, answering and questioning the question 'Why does military welfare history matter?' #milwelfhist
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Really enjoyed getting to present at the @milwelfhist.bsky.social virtual symposium this morning, looking at some of the more “fun” aspects of my PhD thesis (we all know I love getting to talk about the artificial limbs themselves!) #DisHist #ww1 #ww2
February 2, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Really enjoyed getting to present at the @milwelfhist.bsky.social virtual symposium this morning, looking at some of the more “fun” aspects of my PhD thesis (we all know I love getting to talk about the artificial limbs themselves!) #DisHist #ww1 #ww2
Panel 2: great papers by @catsbeck.bsky.social and Laura Robson-Mainwaring of @natarchivestrust.bsky.social who have discussed both medical impairment in 18c British and Scandinavian navies and of #WW1 British medical cases #milwelfhist
February 2, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Panel 2: great papers by @catsbeck.bsky.social and Laura Robson-Mainwaring of @natarchivestrust.bsky.social who have discussed both medical impairment in 18c British and Scandinavian navies and of #WW1 British medical cases #milwelfhist
Wonderful papers by Margarida Portelo @louisebell.bsky.social and @cormac-keenan.bsky.social in our first panel #milwelfhist
February 2, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Wonderful papers by Margarida Portelo @louisebell.bsky.social and @cormac-keenan.bsky.social in our first panel #milwelfhist
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Will try and stay up to listen to this online symposium tonight - interesting array of speakers and topics @milwelfhist.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Will try and stay up to listen to this online symposium tonight - interesting array of speakers and topics @milwelfhist.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
And we are off, with the 3rd and final of the Wellcome-SSMH-funded symposium in our conference series #milwelfhist
And we are off, with the 3rd and final of the Wellcome-SSMH-funded symposium in our conference series #milwelfhist
February 2, 2026 at 11:23 AM
@sshmedicine.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
And we are off, with the 3rd and final of the Wellcome-SSMH-funded symposium in our conference series #milwelfhist
And we are off, with the 3rd and final of the Wellcome-SSMH-funded symposium in our conference series #milwelfhist
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🧵#HistNursing Through my analysis of death certs of WW1 Nurses I’ve found some startling facts - to be shared in due course- 1 was high TB rates, TB was treated in a sanatorium on their return. A sanatorium was built in Christchurch in the hills www.heritage.org.nz/list-details...
February 1, 2026 at 1:45 AM
🧵#HistNursing Through my analysis of death certs of WW1 Nurses I’ve found some startling facts - to be shared in due course- 1 was high TB rates, TB was treated in a sanatorium on their return. A sanatorium was built in Christchurch in the hills www.heritage.org.nz/list-details...
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Booking now open for the 1st June 2026 UKAHN Colloquium in London store.kingston.ac.uk/conferences-... . All info on the Colloquium - including call for papers and posters ukahn.org/colloquium-2... . Please share widely #histnursing #histmedicine
UK Association for the History of Nursing Research Colloquium 2026 | Kingston University
The 27th UK Association for the History of Nursing(UKAHN)  Research Colloquium will be held on Monday 1st June 2026 at Kingston University, Londo
store.kingston.ac.uk
February 1, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Booking now open for the 1st June 2026 UKAHN Colloquium in London store.kingston.ac.uk/conferences-... . All info on the Colloquium - including call for papers and posters ukahn.org/colloquium-2... . Please share widely #histnursing #histmedicine
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Wet Sunday reading through NZAMC documents trying to see how often CXR were given to medical & nursing staff for TB monitoring- the conditions in Samoa weren’t great with tropical diseases in August 1915 ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/2... #HistNursing
January 24, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Wet Sunday reading through NZAMC documents trying to see how often CXR were given to medical & nursing staff for TB monitoring- the conditions in Samoa weren’t great with tropical diseases in August 1915 ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/2... #HistNursing
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The CNMC committee started the year with a visit by the only niece of WW2 Nurse Blanch Helliwell with documents & photos related to Blanche’s service in WW2 was awarded the ARRC the NZ Remembrance Army are putting a headstone on her grave. a recording of Blanche natlib.govt.nz/records/2242...
January 24, 2026 at 3:33 AM
The CNMC committee started the year with a visit by the only niece of WW2 Nurse Blanch Helliwell with documents & photos related to Blanche’s service in WW2 was awarded the ARRC the NZ Remembrance Army are putting a headstone on her grave. a recording of Blanche natlib.govt.nz/records/2242...
One for you @tlgrady68.bsky.social @alxmck.bsky.social @carrielong.bsky.social and others #milwelfhist
As someone who has written about burial, exhumations, and mass graves for the Red Army's war dead in the Second World War this article is professionally fascinating, but deeply grim and very depressing. Terrible that this continues to happen and is necessary. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘All these souls deserve a dignified rest’: Ukraine’s ‘body seekers’ bring home the fallen
Driven by a belief in a common humanity, the Platzdarm search team bring the bodies of soldiers back from the frontline – no matter which side they fought on
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:27 AM
One for you @tlgrady68.bsky.social @alxmck.bsky.social @carrielong.bsky.social and others #milwelfhist
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As someone who has written about burial, exhumations, and mass graves for the Red Army's war dead in the Second World War this article is professionally fascinating, but deeply grim and very depressing. Terrible that this continues to happen and is necessary. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘All these souls deserve a dignified rest’: Ukraine’s ‘body seekers’ bring home the fallen
Driven by a belief in a common humanity, the Platzdarm search team bring the bodies of soldiers back from the frontline – no matter which side they fought on
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:29 PM
As someone who has written about burial, exhumations, and mass graves for the Red Army's war dead in the Second World War this article is professionally fascinating, but deeply grim and very depressing. Terrible that this continues to happen and is necessary. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Loving reading my rare treasure of a book about the NZ #WW1 hospital ships- imagine caring for 1000 heavily wounded patients, changing dressings, no antibiotics, putrid septic wounds #HistNursing
January 21, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Loving reading my rare treasure of a book about the NZ #WW1 hospital ships- imagine caring for 1000 heavily wounded patients, changing dressings, no antibiotics, putrid septic wounds #HistNursing
New Members: we are very happy to welcome Dr Carrie Long of @royalholloway.bsky.social and Dr Nebiha Guiga of @oeaw.bsky.social, who research naval widows and humanitarianism/civilian involvement in military welfare #milwelfhist
January 19, 2026 at 9:19 AM
New Members: we are very happy to welcome Dr Carrie Long of @royalholloway.bsky.social and Dr Nebiha Guiga of @oeaw.bsky.social, who research naval widows and humanitarianism/civilian involvement in military welfare #milwelfhist
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If, like me, you haven’t submitted your abstract for the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference then you NEED to get it done tomorrow! Always one of my favourite conferences and always full of the nicest, most supportive people!
📣The deadline for applications to our 50th anniversary conference closes TOMORROW!
We really look forward to seeing many of you there!
We really look forward to seeing many of you there!
📣You have just under a month to send in your proposal for our 2026 Social History Society Conference - where we will be celebrating out 50th anniversary!
👉Find out more here: socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
👉Find out more here: socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
January 15, 2026 at 11:13 PM
If, like me, you haven’t submitted your abstract for the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference then you NEED to get it done tomorrow! Always one of my favourite conferences and always full of the nicest, most supportive people!
This talk includes references to service personnel-related philanthropy. So, check it out #milwelfhist
Our next seminar is two weeks away! 🗃️
Dr Sarah Flew (@c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social ) will be sharing her research on Lord Overstone’s philanthropy
26 January, 6pm to 7.30pm
Online via Zoom
Book through the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
(As ever, it's FREE)
Dr Sarah Flew (@c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social ) will be sharing her research on Lord Overstone’s philanthropy
26 January, 6pm to 7.30pm
Online via Zoom
Book through the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
(As ever, it's FREE)
January 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM
This talk includes references to service personnel-related philanthropy. So, check it out #milwelfhist
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I can’t tag Charles but I first heard him talk as a young scholar at @milwelfhist.bsky.social conference in Leeds 2 years ago. Great to see his research into Aussie war brides has progressed incredible reading www.mrsdigger.com
Mrs Digger | Discover Historical Stories Today
Explore stories of Anzac war brides with Charles Hewat. Discover historical accounts and personal narratives from Australia's past.
www.mrsdigger.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:19 AM
I can’t tag Charles but I first heard him talk as a young scholar at @milwelfhist.bsky.social conference in Leeds 2 years ago. Great to see his research into Aussie war brides has progressed incredible reading www.mrsdigger.com
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So good to see this #bornOTD of a British nurse leader of the profession. #histnursing
1/5/1850 — b. Sidney Jane Browne, British nursing leader. Introduced strict new training standards as the first Matron-in-Chief, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (1902); DBE (1919); first president, Royal Coll of Nursing (1922-25) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #NurseSky #HistNursing
January 11, 2026 at 10:30 AM
So good to see this #bornOTD of a British nurse leader of the profession. #histnursing
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Good to see another nursing leader from Canada recognized - #bornOTD #histnursing
1/1/1862 — b. Georgina Pope, Canadian nursing leader. The first matron of the Canadian Army Medical Corps (1908) + the first Canadian #military nurse to be a recipient of a Royal Red Cross Class 1 medal (1903) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #NurseSky #HistNursing #MedSky #MedHist #CanadianHistory #BOTD
January 11, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Good to see another nursing leader from Canada recognized - #bornOTD #histnursing
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January 8, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Just a reminder that nursing was, and is, a hazardous occupation . Nurse Dorothy Adams' memorial in the Middlesex Hospital chapel died January 1919 in the global flu pandemic 1918-20. #histnursing #histmed
January 11, 2026 at 1:53 PM