Academic conferences and invited talks where research has been presented (selected, recent):
2026
Social History Society 50th Anniversary Conference, Lancaster University, 1-3 July.
2025
Society for the History of War (SHoW) annual conference, University of Potsdam/ Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences, Germany, 27-28 November.
History and psychology workshop. Human Adaptation in Stressful Environments (HASTE) research group, Manchester Metropolitan University, 20 November.
Military Welfare History Network autumn symposium, University of Birmingham, 6-7 November.
European Social Science History Conference, Leiden University, Netherlands, 26-29 March.
2024
Talk at Headland Baptist Church, Hartlepool: ‘Remembering to Help: Commemoration and Voluntary Action in the Hartlepools, 1914-2024’. Annual 1914 bombardment memorial event, 16 December.
Military Welfare History Network annual conference, University of Leeds, 21 June.
Researching War through Ephemera: A one-day multi-disciplinary conference, Northumbria University, 9 April.
Talk for the Durham branch of the Western Front Association, 18 January: ‘Tobacco, military welfare and endurance on the Western Front’.
2022
Public talk for the Voluntary Action History Society, Autumn Seminar Series, 12 December: ‘An ‘article of luxury and need’: voluntary action, military welfare and the provision of cigarettes to soldiers during the First World War’.
Public lecture for the Royal Armouries Museum, 22 February: ”Safety first, but a great deal besides’: Civil Defence in the First World War’. Available on YouTube here.
Dr. Michael Reeve 