In this post, Dr Frances Houghton examines a puzzling medical mystery in the Royal Navy in 1942, and explains how this illuminates close bonds of shared Allied friendship and international medical co-operation in the Second World War. Frances is currently a Simon Research Fellow (University of Manchester), examining medical ‘cultures of care’ in the Royal …
CFP: Rethinking the history of Violence, Health and Care in Wartime, c. 1860-2000s.
4 June 2021, HCRI, University of Manchester. We are pleased to invite submissions for an online conference exploring the history of violence against health and care, broadly conceived, in wartime. Understandings of the impacts of attacks on healthcare have changed significantly within the last ten years. This is partly the results of the launch of …
What do the archives of the Friends’ Ambulance Unit (FAU) offer to wider histories of the French external Resistance in the Second World War?
Laure Humbert introduces her research and discusses this question with Jill Geber, Project Archivist at the Friends House Library, London As I embark on this new AHRC-funded project with Bertrand Taithe and Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, my aim is to rethink the history of the French external Resistance from the perspectives of its missionary dispensaries and hospitals …
Colonial and Transnational Intimacies: Medical Humanitarianism in the French external Resistance 