Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 10:30 am – Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 7:00 pm
The Returning Soldier
10.30 Registration, Tea & Coffee
Welcome: Kathryn Hurlock and Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrio
10.45-11.45 Session One: Chair, Emma Liggins
Moral Injury, Criticism of Crusading and Returning Crusaders
Kathryn Hurlock, Manchester Metropolitan University
Conflict, Welfare and Memory during and after the British Civil Wars, 1642-1710
Andrew Hopper, University of Leicester
11.45-12.00 Comfort Break
12.00-1.00 Session Two: Chair, Kathryn Hurlock
The Justicier: the military officer in eighteenth-century domestic tragedy
Karen Lacey, Birkbeck College, University of London
Judging heroes: magistrates’ approaches to wife battery, military service and marital duty in English Police Courts in the shadow of the First World War. Rebecca Crites, Warwick University
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Session Three: Chair, Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrio
‘Rest you, charger, rust you, bridle’: Animals from the Wars Returning?
Gervase Phillips, Manchester Metropolitan University
Who Dares Wins: veteran SAS on contemporary television’
Nicola Bishop, Manchester Metropolitan University
Disabled War Veterans in Tito´s Yugoslavia, 1945-1961
John Paul Newman, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
3.30-4.00 Tea & Coffee
4.00-5.00 Round Table Discussion: The Returning Soldier
6.00 Dinner
If you would like to attend, please email K.Hurlock@mmu.ac.uk