Military Welfare History Network
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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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Pleased to share this *Opium Slavery* Author’s Corner on The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Thanks @johnfea1.bsky.social for featuring the book! 🗃️ thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/11/10/t...
The Author’s Corner with Jonathan S. Jones
Jonathan S. Jones is Assistant Professor of History at James Madison University. This interview is based on his new book, Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis (…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Pleased to share this *Opium Slavery* Author’s Corner on The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Thanks @johnfea1.bsky.social for featuring the book! 🗃️ thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/11/10/t...
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What a privilege to be part of such fantastic discussions over the past two days. Taking away a lot to think about. Thanks to everyone #milwelfhist p.s. Someone with Japanese should translate Eri Nakamura's book. What an honour to speak alongside such a great presentation.
A selection of great papers by Robert Dale, Eri Nakamura and Owen Rees on day 1 of this symposium. The second event in the @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded (via @sshmedicine.bsky.social) 'Military Communities’ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series‘. More tomorrow #milwelfhist
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
What a privilege to be part of such fantastic discussions over the past two days. Taking away a lot to think about. Thanks to everyone #milwelfhist p.s. Someone with Japanese should translate Eri Nakamura's book. What an honour to speak alongside such a great presentation.
Sincere thanks from me and Michael Robinson to @badancient.bsky.social and Michael Roper for joining us as Birmingham yesterday and today for another MWHN event. Onwards to the next #milwelfhist
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Sincere thanks from me and Michael Robinson to @badancient.bsky.social and Michael Roper for joining us as Birmingham yesterday and today for another MWHN event. Onwards to the next #milwelfhist
A very lively discussion following my presentation on the MWH 'perpective' and the Network to the people at Joining Forces-UB project at the University of Buffalo. A great project
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November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A very lively discussion following my presentation on the MWH 'perpective' and the Network to the people at Joining Forces-UB project at the University of Buffalo. A great project
#milweflhist
#milweflhist
Getting close to the end with our final panels. Wonderful papers from Dr Anna Elisabeth Gehl (Frei Universitat Berlin),Dr Mike Reeve (Open University), Tiago Rocha e Melo (University of Lisbon) and Dr Otman Bychou (Sultan Moulay Silmane University) #milwelfhist
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Getting close to the end with our final panels. Wonderful papers from Dr Anna Elisabeth Gehl (Frei Universitat Berlin),Dr Mike Reeve (Open University), Tiago Rocha e Melo (University of Lisbon) and Dr Otman Bychou (Sultan Moulay Silmane University) #milwelfhist
Now onto Keynote 2:
1330-1500hrs: Keynote Address – Prof Emeritus Michael Roper (University of Essex) ‘Locating trauma: a personal reflection and a family history’ #milwelfhist
1330-1500hrs: Keynote Address – Prof Emeritus Michael Roper (University of Essex) ‘Locating trauma: a personal reflection and a family history’ #milwelfhist
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Now onto Keynote 2:
1330-1500hrs: Keynote Address – Prof Emeritus Michael Roper (University of Essex) ‘Locating trauma: a personal reflection and a family history’ #milwelfhist
1330-1500hrs: Keynote Address – Prof Emeritus Michael Roper (University of Essex) ‘Locating trauma: a personal reflection and a family history’ #milwelfhist
It is a jam-packed day for the Network, with a two-day symposium still ongoing at @unibirmingham.bsky.social and @paulhuddie.bsky.social giving a Zoom lecture on the military welfare history 'perspective' to the great folks at the University of Buffalo's 'Joining Forces-UB' project #milwelfhist
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It is a jam-packed day for the Network, with a two-day symposium still ongoing at @unibirmingham.bsky.social and @paulhuddie.bsky.social giving a Zoom lecture on the military welfare history 'perspective' to the great folks at the University of Buffalo's 'Joining Forces-UB' project #milwelfhist
What a great second panel!
1100-1230hrs: Panel Four: 'The First World War'. With papers from three PhD candidates:
Nicola Nash and Didier Brouns (University of Birmingham) and
Delaney Beck (University of New Brunswick) #milwelfhist #trauma #histmed
1100-1230hrs: Panel Four: 'The First World War'. With papers from three PhD candidates:
Nicola Nash and Didier Brouns (University of Birmingham) and
Delaney Beck (University of New Brunswick) #milwelfhist #trauma #histmed
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
What a great second panel!
1100-1230hrs: Panel Four: 'The First World War'. With papers from three PhD candidates:
Nicola Nash and Didier Brouns (University of Birmingham) and
Delaney Beck (University of New Brunswick) #milwelfhist #trauma #histmed
1100-1230hrs: Panel Four: 'The First World War'. With papers from three PhD candidates:
Nicola Nash and Didier Brouns (University of Birmingham) and
Delaney Beck (University of New Brunswick) #milwelfhist #trauma #histmed
0900-1030hrs: Panel Two: 'Short-Term and Long-Term Trauma', with papers by Oscar Owen (University of Wolverhampton); Dr Kristin O'Donnell (Birmingham Newman University) & Dr Ana Catarina Pinho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) #milwelfhist #trauma #histmed
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
0900-1030hrs: Panel Two: 'Short-Term and Long-Term Trauma', with papers by Oscar Owen (University of Wolverhampton); Dr Kristin O'Donnell (Birmingham Newman University) & Dr Ana Catarina Pinho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) #milwelfhist #trauma #histmed
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And we are off for day two. First up a three-paper panel on 'Short-Term and Long-Term trauma' #milwelfhist
And we are off for day two. First up a three-paper panel on 'Short-Term and Long-Term trauma' #milwelfhist
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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And we are off for day two. First up a three-paper panel on 'Short-Term and Long-Term trauma' #milwelfhist
And we are off for day two. First up a three-paper panel on 'Short-Term and Long-Term trauma' #milwelfhist
A selection of great papers by Robert Dale, Eri Nakamura and Owen Rees on day 1 of this symposium. The second event in the @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded (via @sshmedicine.bsky.social) 'Military Communities’ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series‘. More tomorrow #milwelfhist
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
A selection of great papers by Robert Dale, Eri Nakamura and Owen Rees on day 1 of this symposium. The second event in the @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded (via @sshmedicine.bsky.social) 'Military Communities’ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series‘. More tomorrow #milwelfhist
Very happy faces at the conference dinner, following the end of day 1. Thanks to Owen Rees for his keynote and to our first panel, which included our own Eri Nakamura, all the way from Japan. Onwards to day 2 #milwelfhist
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Very happy faces at the conference dinner, following the end of day 1. Thanks to Owen Rees for his keynote and to our first panel, which included our own Eri Nakamura, all the way from Japan. Onwards to day 2 #milwelfhist
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Co-convenor Michael Robinson has just kicked off our @milwelfhist.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social symposium at Birmingham on war, trauma and emotional injury. Some excellent papers and discussion to come this afternoon and into tomorrow #milwelfhist
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Co-convenor Michael Robinson has just kicked off our @milwelfhist.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social symposium at Birmingham on war, trauma and emotional injury. Some excellent papers and discussion to come this afternoon and into tomorrow #milwelfhist
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Day 1 of @milwelfhist.bsky.social event 'War, Trauma and Emotional Injury', supported by a SSHM/Wellcome Network Grant Award.
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#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
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#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
Today is day 1 of the second of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded events series, hosted both at @unibirmingham.bsky.social in 2025 and online in 2026. With 'trauma' and its associated medical impacts as our theme, we expect interesting papers and stimulating discussions #milwelfhist
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Day 1 of @milwelfhist.bsky.social event 'War, Trauma and Emotional Injury', supported by a SSHM/Wellcome Network Grant Award.
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
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Today is day 1 of the second of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded events series, hosted both at @unibirmingham.bsky.social in 2025 and online in 2026. With 'trauma' and its associated medical impacts as our theme, we expect interesting papers and stimulating discussions #milwelfhist
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Today is day 1 of the second of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded events series, hosted both at @unibirmingham.bsky.social in 2025 and online in 2026. With 'trauma' and its associated medical impacts as our theme, we expect interesting papers and stimulating discussions #milwelfhist
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Today is day 1 of the second of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded events series, hosted both at @unibirmingham.bsky.social in 2025 and online in 2026. With 'trauma' and its associated medical impacts as our theme, we expect interesting papers and stimulating discussions #milwelfhist
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Happening soon!!
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Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
November 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Happening soon!!
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Looking forward to presenting at this - and my first trip to the UK!
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Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Looking forward to presenting at this - and my first trip to the UK!
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Looking forward to going to Birmingham tomorrow to present research at the @milwelfhist.bsky.social symposium on "War, Trauma, and Emotional Injury". #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @eahmh.bsky.social @eahnursing.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social
Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Looking forward to going to Birmingham tomorrow to present research at the @milwelfhist.bsky.social symposium on "War, Trauma, and Emotional Injury". #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
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It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...
October 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...
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A wonderful book now available in Open Access. It would be great for teaching too!
Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess!
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Militarizing Marriage
Following tirailleurs sénégalais’ deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A wonderful book now available in Open Access. It would be great for teaching too!
@eahmh.bsky.social @eahnursing.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @sochistorywar.bsky.social @vahs.bsky.social
Looking for some easy listening? Don't forget that we've podcasted several keynote papers from the 2023 & 2024 conferences in Dublin and Leeds. Listen to them here and experience the breadth and depth of the military welfare history 'perspective' #milwelfhist #podcast
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historyhub.ie/military-wel...
Military Welfare History Network - Conference Podcasts - History Hub
The Military Welfare History Network provides a networking and dissemination platform for scholars who are research active in military welfare history. In 2024 the Military Welfare History Network (MW...
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October 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Looking for some easy listening? Don't forget that we've podcasted several keynote papers from the 2023 & 2024 conferences in Dublin and Leeds. Listen to them here and experience the breadth and depth of the military welfare history 'perspective' #milwelfhist #podcast
historyhub.ie/military-wel...
historyhub.ie/military-wel...
Military Welfare History Network - Conference Podcasts - History Hub
The Military Welfare History Network provides a networking and dissemination platform for scholars who are research active in military welfare history. In 2024 the Military Welfare History Network (MW...
historyhub.ie
October 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Looking for some easy listening? Don't forget that we've podcasted several keynote papers from the 2023 & 2024 conferences in Dublin and Leeds. Listen to them here and experience the breadth and depth of the military welfare history 'perspective' #milwelfhist #podcast
historyhub.ie/military-wel...
historyhub.ie/military-wel...
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @eahmh.bsky.social @eahnursing.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social
Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
October 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
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Some fascinating images of the involvement of Belgian colonial subjects in the East Africa campaign of the First World War. These and other images are available to consult here uurl.kbr.be/bib/16923934
October 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Some fascinating images of the involvement of Belgian colonial subjects in the East Africa campaign of the First World War. These and other images are available to consult here uurl.kbr.be/bib/16923934