Publications

First MWHN Publication: ‘Military welfare history: what is it and why should it be considered?‘, a special edition of War & Society (2023)

War & Society, volume 42, issue 4, October 2023

The MWHN is very happy to announce that following on from its successful 2021 online conference, the editors of War & Society have invited the MWHN to contribute a special edition to the journal’s series. The special edition, which will be published in autumn 2023, and is co-edited by Dr Paul Huddie (MWHN Co-ordinator) and Dr Amy Carney (MWHN Member). The selection of articles have been contributed by one of the keynotes: Prof Laura McEnaney, and four of the conference presenters: Dr Brian Hughes, Dr Eleanor O’Keeffe, Dr Silvia Correia, and Dr Colin Moore.

‘As a scholarly project, military welfare history is both well-developed and still evolving. Social scientists and humanists have been writing about military welfare for several decades, although their scholarship has not always been tagged historiographically as military welfare history, per se. There now exists a substantive community of scholars who have produced a robust body of literature. Military welfare scholars ask ‘war and’ questions, finding common cause and productive overlap with scholars who investigate the environment, labour, sexuality, popular culture, disability, state policy, law, race, ethnicity, and gender’.

• ‘Military welfare history: what is it and why should it be considered?’ by Dr Paul Huddie and Dr Amy Carney
• ‘Framing War Disability through Masculinity: The Disabled Soldiers of the First World War in Portugal’ by Prof Silvia Correia
• ‘Paying the Debts of the ‘Economy of Sacrifice’: Military Charities as Brokers in Veteran Care, 1919–1929’ by Dr Eleanor O’Keeffe
• ‘The Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association and Irish Ex-Servicemen of the First World War, 1922–1932’ by Dr Brian Hughes
• ‘Soldiers of a forgotten empire: American memory and the battle for Filipino veterans’ benefits’ by Prof Colin Moore
• ‘Military welfare history in the classroom: converting research passions into lesson plans’ by Prof Laura McEnaney

Second MWHN Publication: edited volume in development (2023-25)

• Editors: Dr Paul Huddie, Dr Emma Huddlestone, Dr Anndal Narayanan and Dr Amy J. Rutenberg
• Title: ‘Where War and Welfare Meet: Military Welfare History from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries‘
• Periods covered: 18c, 19c, and 20c
• Conflicts covered: Seven Years’ War, American War of Independence, Crimean War, US Civil War, WW1, Inter-war period, WW2, Algerian War, Rhodesian Bush War, and Soviet-Afghan War.