@milwelfhist.bsky.social
MWHN is an international, interdisciplinary & all-career-stages networking & dissemination platform for military welfare, care & medical history researchers & projects. Coordinated by @paulhuddie.bsky.social Visit: https://militarywelfarehistory.com
Join us for our upcoming online event!
Conference Military Welfare History: what is it and how can we use it?
🎤 Dr @paulhuddie.bsky.social
⏰ 6.00 pm (Dublin time)
🗣️ In English
✍️ Register in advance vía the QR code on the flyer
We look forward to seeing you there!
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23.02.2026 13:10 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
2026 MWHN Conference - call for papers!
Join us in Romania this June to discuss all things military welfare and civil society. Deadline: 14 March 2026.
CfP attached and full details at militarywelfarehistory.com/2026-confere... #milwelfhist #civilsociety #charity #philanthropy
2026 MWHN Conference - call for papers!
Join us in Romania this June to discuss all things military welfare and civil society. Deadline: 14 March 2026.
CfP attached and full details at militarywelfarehistory.com/2026-confere... #milwelfhist #civilsociety #charity #philanthropy
Of interest to @milwelfhist.bsky.social perhaps!
17.02.2026 20:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of a US soldier sat covered in mud with his head in his hands
Been reading The Deserters by Charles Glass this week. Stories of US and UK troops who left their units, either consciously or through no fault of their own, during the SWW. I wanted a bit more analysis but some interesting stories here. #histbookchat
21.02.2026 12:41 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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.
12.02.2026 14:50 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
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@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
@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
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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
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
02.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
02.02.2026 13:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Wonderful papers by Margarida Portelo @louisebell.bsky.social and @cormac-keenan.bsky.social in our first panel #milwelfhist
02.02.2026 13:50 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Will try and stay up to listen to this online symposium tonight - interesting array of speakers and topics @milwelfhist.bsky.social
02.02.2026 11:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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And we are off, with the 3rd and final of the Wellcome-SSMH-funded symposium in our conference series #milwelfhist
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The relocated shelter on part of the original site of sanatorium - evidence of original terraces, railings exist. The house at the top is near where the nurse’s home was
Full map of site nothing remains now apart from one hut
🧵#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...
01.02.2026 01:45 — 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0
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
01.02.2026 08:52 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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
24.01.2026 23:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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...
24.01.2026 03:33 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1One for you @tlgrady68.bsky.social @alxmck.bsky.social @carrielong.bsky.social and others #milwelfhist
22.01.2026 07:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
21.01.2026 21:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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
21.01.2026 08:50 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
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
19.01.2026 09:19 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0If, 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!
15.01.2026 23:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0This talk includes references to service personnel-related philanthropy. So, check it out #milwelfhist
12.01.2026 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I 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
12.01.2026 09:19 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1So good to see this #bornOTD of a British nurse leader of the profession. #histnursing
11.01.2026 10:30 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Good to see another nursing leader from Canada recognized - #bornOTD #histnursing
11.01.2026 10:32 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I hadn’t heard of the parachuting nurses before! 🪂
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