For those researching the financial, medical & social care of #FWW veterans & their families. Tweets: @HistoryNerdess
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My book - 'Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans in Ireland, 1918-39: A Difficult Homecoming' - is now available to pre-order. A crazy couple of weeks but seeing this weblink the surrealist of the lot for me! #dishist#fww#histmed#irishstudies
https://t.co/kqsEmSBWvZ
It is with regret that the War & Peace conference scheduled for June 2020 has been cancelled. We will be in touch with everyone who has submitted abstracts in due course
Some exciting news from the ECR board meeting of @HisJournalHA yesterday. We're introducing a new 'state of the field' section of the journal, and are currently seeking a 3-5000 essay on disability history. Please circulate and DM me if you're interested #disthist
New addition: ‘Definitely Wrong’? The Ministry of Pensions’ Treatment of Mentally Ill Great War Veterans in Interwar British and Irish Society https://t.co/LLaPQtXfJv
My article 'Volunteer Veterans and Entangled Cultures of Victory in Interwar Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia' is now available online first @JContHist Part of a special section on 'Cultures of Victory' to be published in full this fall! @MaynoothHist
https://t.co/gbzm4ByHPD
Got a new research project or new ideas that aren't quite ready for a 20-minute conference paper? Want some feedback from a supportive audience? Submit a proposal for a 10-minute paper or a poster at #LegaciesFWW2019. Deadline 28 Feb.
https://t.co/NDTdYPaP2F
Don't forget to submit your abstracts (due 28 Feb) for the Society's 2019 conference @LeedsUniHistory. The theme is 'Legacies'. @HistoryNerdess and her team are looking forward to seeing you in Leeds! CFP: https://t.co/VUJi1uiTl7
Congratulations to @robinsonmj07, one of our admins! You can read some of his work on #FWW veterans in the Irish Free State in @IrishStudiesRev 25:3 (2017)
Keep an eye out for the book too, under contract with @ManchesterUP and coming soon!
Had a great weekend in Belfast. Thanks to @CHOMIreland and its judges for the Medical Humanities essay prize and @UlsterUni staff for their hospitality (the trophy is now the centre piece of my parents' dinner table)
A reminder that if you work on #ww1 veterans and the care provided for them/their families (in any sense of 'care') you should be part of @FWWCareNetwork!
New article out by one of our members: Stephanie Wright, 'Glorious Brothers, Unsuitable Lovers: Moroccan Veterans, Spanish Women, and the Mechanisms of Francoist Paternalism', Journal of Contemporary History (2018) - advance online access at https://t.co/r8iYMl90qA
This splendid article, Improvements in Welfare of the Blind, by Niall Herbert for @Voices_WW1 gives much useful background to our early work https://t.co/MZHBdoxnUG It also features several photos from our archives @BlindVeterans@FWWCareNetwork@N_D_Herbert