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Conference Programme
10:00 am to 10:30 am Breakfast and Reception The Council Room
10:30 am to 11:45 am The Political Economy of War The Council Room
Chair: Ben Angell
Vittoria Princi Supplying Military Barracks in the Napoleonic Wars
Edward Young Building Engines for War: Radical Air-cool Engine Production in Britain and America in WWII
Alexander Turchyn Another Attempt at Greatness: Swedish Finances and Administration in Occupied Poland
Robin Adams Shadow of Taxman: Financing for the Republican Movement during the Irish War of Independence, 1919-21
Military Training & Education War Studies Room
Chair: Mathew Kovac
Mark Frost The Evolution of Military Education at Sandhurst and Woolwich, 1902-39
Mathew Zembo Training and Tactics of the British Army and the Battle of Fort Anne
William Fletcher The British Army’s Staff System during the Egyptian Campaign, 1801
Christopher Newton The Endurance of the British Third Army during the Battles of the Scarpe, 1917
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm War & Identity The Council Room
Chair: Jan Tattenberg
Julian Wotowicz British Re-education of Nazi POWs
Ted Szadinski Coming (Back) to the Third Line: The Identity of the Triarii in the Manipular Legions of Rome
Matthew Kovac Great War Trauma in the IRA, 1914-34
War & Legitimacy War Studies Room
Chair: Ryan Crimms
Andrew Payne US Electoral Politics and the Vietnam War
Louis Morris Diplomacy as a Strategy for Fiscal-Military Success in Early Modern Europe
Hohee Cho British Imperial Propaganda and War Art, 1939-45
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Lunch The Council Room
2:00 pm to 3:00 Raising Troops The Council Room
Chair: Louis Morris
George Evans The Early 20th Century Irish Landed Class: A Military Caste?
Elizabeth Norton Retinues, Patronage and the Militia
Loek Luiten The Quattrocento Mercenary-Captain as a Liminal Phenomenon
Ben Angell Unit Affiliation and Combat Motivation in the Roman Army
Bureaucracies War Studies Room
Chair: Vittoria Princi
Mark Bailie The Malayan Emergency and the official Mind
Thomas Bottelier An Alien War Machine in Washington D.C., 1940-45
Andrew Ehrhardt Competing Visions of Post-War Order, 1942
Ryan Crimins Court Matrial Records of the Thirty Years War
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Afternoon Tea The Council Room
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm World War II in Asia The Council Room
Chair: Reyhaneh Noshiravani
Rowena Abdul Razak The Impact of the British-Soviet Occupation of Iran, 1941-46
Mathew Heller The Anglo-French ‘Secret War’ in the Middle East, 1943-45
Kevin Noles Indian POWs in Singapore, 1942-43
Woody Di Wu Military Operation against the Japan on Yangtze River, 1935-39
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Roundtable Discussion The Council Room
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Evening Reception The Council Room
Event details
Council RoomStrand Campus
Strand, London, WC2R 2LS