@illinoispress.bsky.social is running a #BlackFriday sale on all their books, including mine! Get your copy of Constructing Disability after the Great War: Blind Veterans in the Progressive Era using the code FRIDAY50 from now until November 30th! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Excited to be heading to Erfurt with COLVET colleagues. for this great workshop. I'll be giving a keynote tomorrow evening on 'The Great War of Movement: Thinking Critically about Mobility, Displacement, Coercion and Consent in the French Empire's First World War'. Danke @florianwagner.bsky.social

It was wonderful to present with the COLVET project team yesterday at the Society of History of War on provision for colonial veterans in the French and Italian empires and British ruled India.

New Members. We are very happy to welcome Tiago Rocha e Melo, Dr Ana Catarina Pinho and the Revd Dr Peter Howson to the Network. Their respective research on ancient Rome, colonial Portugal and British military chaplaincy are great additions #milwelfhist

Well done Matt. Keep up the good work! Entertainment = welfare #milwelfhist

Many years ago, I helped set up The Returning Soldier Network, but circumstances meant that I had to step away for a few years as I tried to find secure work. Yesterday, I returned back into the fold as one of the project leads! So watch this space, plans are brewing... @milwelfhist.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

Call for Statements of Interest - open now! In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist

Hi, can anyone figure out the medical term in this document?

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@irishdefenceforces.bsky.social Brilliant stuff @cecilearchives.bsky.social! Thanks for continuing to promote the Network #milwelfhist

Looking forward to speaking at the Institute of Historical Research Seminar in King's College London next Wednesday evening. I will present research from the @erc.europa.eu COLVET project. Open to all but pre-registration required to attend. Thanks to the organisers www.eventbrite.ie/e/colonial-v...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

@sshmedicine.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social 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

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

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

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

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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

Happening soon!!

Looking forward to presenting at this - and my first trip to the UK!

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

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...

A wonderful book now available in Open Access. It would be great for teaching too!

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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...

@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

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

All prepped for my part of the #HistNursing talk at the Christchurch Nurse’s chapel Saturday from 2 pm. We are talking on the life and lessons of the #WW2 nurses & linking to modern crisis nursing

Congrats Jonathan! #opium ##histmed #milwelfhist

Both on Taylor & Francis! @tandfresearch.bsky.social ➡️ “Soldiers of Russia”: Veterans of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France and USSR, 1917–1975 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New member and affiliate: we are very happy to welcome Konrad Gergely of @eui-eu.bsky.social and the @ucddublin.bsky.social Centre for War Studies to the Network #milwefhist

Gearing up for my talk before the Society, Health and Military Medicine seminar series at the University of Lisbon. Thanks to our Margarida Portela for the invitation. This will be a sneak peek into the content and argument of the forthcoming MWHN edited volume #milwelfhist

The next event at the Christchurch nurse’s memorial chapel museum- a slot by yours truly in the mix - free do pop in if you are in town & our WW2 display will still be out

I wrote this short blog on the discriminatory demobilisation of French colonial troops for the Returning Soldier network: returningsoldier.co.uk/2025/09/18/n...

A sketch of West African soldiers at the Victory Parade in Paris on Bastille Day 1919 by French artist Paul Goute.

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