Research Reflections: An Undergraduate's Perspective
Written by Rachel Berry This past year, five undergraduate students, including myself, joined the Men, Women and Care project as part of FOAR2000, a research...
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Counting the War Injured
by Jessica Meyer In a Twitter discussion sparked by the BBC’s screening of Peter Jackson’s ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ in November, Greg Jenner quoted...
History and The Mobile Phone: Re-animating the World War 1 Auxiliary Hospital at Temple Newsam House
'Posted by Bethany Rowley' The home of Viscount and Lady Wood, Temple Newsam Auxiliary Military Hospital was opened on the 29th October 1914. With Edward...
Anglicanism and The British Limbless Ex-Servicemen’s Association: A Local Case Study
Posted by Bethany Rowley The 1937 Manchester deputation has been remembered amongst the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen’s Association as a great success story in aiding the...
'Not Less They Earned the Victor's Guerdon': Medical Service Pensions and the Disabled Body
Posted by Jessica Meyer One of the questions I often get when explaining to people that the Men, Women and Care project looks at gender...
‘I do not want Charity I want my rights’: Perceptions of state support in the Ministry of Pensions Archives
Posted by Jessica Meyer In her post last week on Active History, Brittany Dunn noted that, in their approach to the Canadian Board of Pension...
Psychological wounds and accountability in post-war Britain: a response to Kandace Bogaert
By Eilis Boyle This post forms the first in our series of responses to Active History's current series on Canadian First World War Pensions. Kandace...
Talking About Coming Home: Conversations with Active History
Posted by Jessica Meyer Over the next few weeks, the Active History blog will be publishing series of four posts exploring 'how disabled Canadian...
Unexpected Lessons from Giving A Public Engagement Talk:
Posted by Bethany Rowley Set on the banks of the River Aire in Leeds, West Yorkshire, are the ruins of a Medieval Cistercian abbey. This...
New Research In Military History Conference, Toc H, and the Battle for Identity In Inter-War Britain
Posted by Bethany Rowley On the 17th and 18th of November 2017, I was honoured to attend and present my research at the 8th New...