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The Military Welfare History Network’s 2025/26 Military Communities’ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series was a series of three symposiums which were kindly supported by the Wellcome Trust through the Society for the Social History of Medicine and hosted by both the UCD Centre for War Studies and the University of Birmingham.

Dr Paul Huddie

Network Coordinator

Podcasts from the Military Welfare History Network 2025 / 2026 Series

The Military Welfare History Network provides a networking and dissemination platform for scholars who are research active in military welfare history.

Thanks to the generous funding of the Wellcome Trust, through the Society for the Social History of Medicine, in 2025-26 the MWHN ran a three-part series of events.

Entitled the ‘The Military Communities’ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series’, this series comprised three accessible hybrid network events, which took place in the UK and online (via Zoom) over the course of the twenty-four months of the award. All of which focussed on the burgeoning ‘perspective’ of military welfare history; defined as the welfare, care and medical provisions afforded to service personnel, their families and other dependents.

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Podcasts

Podcasts from 2025 / 2026 Conference Military Communities’ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series the series are now available on History Hub. Listen below.

Keynote: Professor Jennifer Mittelstadt (Rutgers) – Why Military Welfare History Matters?

Keynote: Professor Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds) – Returning to Health: the legacy of British disabled ex-servicemen of the First World War

Professor Alison Fell (University of Liverpool) – First World War nurses and humanitarian relief work, 1918-23

Professor Juliette Pattinson (King’s College London) – “Here we were, girls of the twentieth century”: gender, modernity and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the First World War

Anna Elisabeth Gehl (Freie Universität Berlin) – ‘“But the sadness of it all worked its way into my very soul”: treating the mental and physical wounds of World War One medical volunteers’

Prof Dónal Hassett (Maynooth University) – Towards a History of the Systems of Care for War-Wounded Veterans in France’s African Colonies

Francis van Berkel (University of Essex) – “Sympathetic Treatment” and Sepoy Loyalty – the Indian Army, Paternalism, and Welfare Provision’

Col (Retd) Dr Soundararajan ‘Jag’ Jagdish – ‘Misadventures in Mesopotamia – when health and welfare went awry’

Dr Margarida Portela (University of Lisbon) – ‘Aurélio da Costa Ferreira’s “Moral Patch”: An Innovative Approach to the Treatment of Portuguese Soldiers in the First World War’

Dr Michael Robinson (University of Birmingham / National Army Museum) – ‘“He Now Sees the Same Sights He Saw Then”: studying the Great War veteran in 1930s Britain’

Dr Louise Bell (University of Leeds) – ‘“It’s always been a good fitting leg because I made do myself”: Adapting prostheses in the aftermath of two world wars’

Cormac Keenan (Dublin City University) – ‘Caring for IRA veterans: Family challenges after the Irish Civil War’

Dr Catherine Beck (Lund University) – ‘Seafaring impairment, eighteenth-century European naval welfare and constructions of disability’

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