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In 1945, Lord Moran, a leading military physician and doctor to Winston Churchill, proclaimed that the Royal Navy ‘is far too robust to bother about a sailor’s nerves.’ However, important new systems, practices and cultures of psychiatric care were embedded into wider naval healthcare throughout the Second World War. Examining the prevention and treatment of psychiatric casualties in the Senior Service, Dr Frances Houghton will explain that the wartime Navy did in fact ‘bother’ quite considerably about the mental health of its sailors.
About the speaker
Dr Frances Houghton is Simon Research Fellow in History at the University of Manchester. Frances’s award-winning first monograph, The Veterans’ Tale: British Military Memoirs of the Second World War was published in 2019 by Cambridge University Press. She is currently writing her second book which explores systems of medical care, masculinities, and emotional cultures in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.
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