Conferences and talks

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Academic conferences and invited talks where research has been presented (selected, recent):

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.