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The network first started in 2019 and has grown steadily since then. Anyone who is doing any form of military welfare history, be that related to service personnel and their families, or anything relating to matters of medical provision or social policy, regardless of chronology or geographical location, please do get in touch with the Military Welfare History Network.
The first in-person meeting of the Military Welfare History Network took place in Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin on 7 July 2023. The event, which was co-ordinated by Dr Paul Huddie, comprised two keynotes and four panels, totalling 14 speakers.
Papers covered topics ranging from widows and orphans to veterans and pensions and from nursing and hospital provisions to charities. They also crossed geographical and chronological boundaries, engaging with Britain and Ireland, Zimbabwe, Austria, Habsburg Transylvania, and Australia, and from the 17th century right into the latter 20th century.
The conference was supported by several organisations and individuals. These were: Prof Adele Lindenmeyer; Dr Michael Tyquin;
The Centre for Military, War, and Society Studies at the University of Kansas (courtesy of the Centre Director, Prof Beth Bailey); Society for the History of War; Society for the Social History of Medicine; and UCD Centre for War Studies.
Conference keynotes by Dr Matthew Neufeld (University of Saskatchewan) and Dr Ke-Chin Hsia (Indiana University Bloomington) were recorded and are now available to podcast.
Courtesy of generous support from UCD School of History the conference keynotes were recorded and are now available to podcast. The first keynote at the conference was given by Dr Matthew Neufeld from University of Saskatchewan who presented on ‘Early Modern Naval Healthcare in England, 1650 1750’.
The second keynote at the conference was given by Dr Ke-Chin Hsia from Indiana University Bloomington who presented on ‘War and Welfare in Austria in the Age of the Great War’.
The podcasts of the conference keynotes are also available on History Hub’s podcast channels on Apple, Soundcloud and Spotify.
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Dr Mark Jones is Assistant Professor in Global History at University College Dublin. A specialist in the history of political violence, war, and revolution, his publications include ‘Founding Weimar. Violence and the German Revolution of 1918-19 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). His latest book is ‘1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup’. This podcast ‘The murder of Walter Rathenau and the survival of Weimar democracy. Mark Jones on the year 1923’ is based on this latest book.
In June 2023 Professor Caitríona Beaumont (LSBU / UCD) joined UCD historians Dr Mary McAuliffe and Dr Fionnuala Walsh to record a podcast on a new project: AFTERLIVES.
The aim of the project is to uncover the afterlives and trace the life stories of lesser known activist women. As Beaumont explains, the inspiration for the project came from a surprising discovery.
On 8 March 2023, UCD School of History hosted ‘Writing LGBTQ histories from the medieval to the modern’. This event featured UCD historians Dr Elva Johnston, Dr Mary McAuliffe and Dr Fionnuala Walsh (Chair).
