This symposium, organised by the British Commission for Military History in association with the Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham, intends to highlight current research being undertaken by postgraduate and early career scholars in the field of military history and related disciplines.
This is the British Commission for Military History's third annual New Research symposium giving postgraduate and early career scholars an excellent opportunity to meet, share new ideas and discuss the latest research. Some twenty papers will be presented, on a wide range of subjects from the Renaissance to today.
The British Commission for Military History is the pre-eminent association for professional military historians in the UK, dedicated to the promotion and discussion of military history in its broadest sense. Participants at New Research in Military History will also be welcome to attend the Commission’s autumn conference ‘Re-engaging with the First World War’, on Saturday 17 November 2012.
Programme
8.30-9.10 am: Registration
9.10-25 am: Plenary
9.30-11 am: Panel 1: Early Modern
Eduardo de Mesa Gallego (University College of Dublin) – Irish Tercios in the Spanish Military Revolution, 1621 - 1644
Jennifer Daley (King's College London) - Fashion Power and Protection: Military Uniform during the English Civil War
Adam Storring (University of Cambridge) – Zorndorf 1758: Prussian war-making at the mid-point of the Seven Years' War
Panel A: Intel
Lon Strauss (University of Kansas) – Political Paranoia or War Hysteria? U.S. Military Intelligence and the Surveillance of American Citizens in the First World War
Marcus Faulkner (King's College London) – A Most Disagreeable Problem: The British View of the Kriegsmarine's Aircraft Carrier Programme and German Wartime Responses
Falko Bell (University of Glasgow/Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz) – British Human Intelligence during the Second World War
11-11.20 am: Break
11.20 am -12.50 pm: Panel 2: 19th and early 20th Centuries
Jerome Devitt (Trinity College Dublin) – The British Navy's Channel Squadron and Ireland in the 1860s – Deterrence in Practice
Richard Mehlinger (University of California, Riverside) – Playing War: Wargaming and the Edwardian Military
Ross Mahoney (University of Birmingham) – Developing the 'Air Force Spirit': Organisational Culture, Leadership Development and the RAF Staff College, 1922-1939
Panel B: Doctrine
Mark R. Geldof (Merton College, Oxford) – Fighting on Paper: New Perspectives on the Transmission of Martial Knowledge in Renaissance England
Andrew Duncan (University of Birmingham) – Professionalism in the pre-1914 British Officer Corps: A Statistical View
Fabrizio Novellino (University of Trento) – The Italian Perception of the German Armored Division Through the Eyes of Col. Efisio Marras 1936-1939: A Missed Chance for the Italian General Staff
12.50-1.30 pm: Luncheon
1.30-3 pm: Panel 3: The Second World War
Andrew Wheale (University of Buckingham) – 'Volunteers and Converts': Manpower and the formation of 6th Airborne Division
Matthew Powell (University of Birmingham) – Artillery Reconnaissance and Army Co-operation Command, 1940-1942
Ioannis Nioutsikos (King's College London) – The Special Operations Executive in Greece: Operation Harling
Panel C: Civil-Military Relations
Giulio Ongaro (University of Verona) – Military in the Countryside: an Italian perspective in the Early Modern period
Richard Dunley (King's College London) – The Danish Option: The Success and Failure of Inter-Service Planning Against Germany 1907-1908
Kathleen Sherit (King's College London) – Opening Warships and Combat Flying to Women: challenges to a principle of exclusion.
3-3.20 pm: Break
3.20-4.20 pm: Panel 4: Post-1945
Danny Steed (University of Exeter) – The Missed Lesson of the Suez Crisis: Phase IV Planning and a degraded security situation
Simon Moody (King's College London) – Thinking the Unthinkable: Military Publicists and the Coming of the Atomic Battlefield
Panel D: The Experience of War
Spyros Tsoutsoumpis (University of Manchester) – Enduring War: Morale and Motivation in the First and Second Balkan Wars, 1912-1913
Peter Johnston (University of Kent) – More than Just War Stories: Uncovering Professional Military Culture in the Falklands War through Oral History
4.20-4.30 pm: Reconvene
4.30-6 pm: Keynote
Professor Stephen Badsey (University of Wolverhampton) - Military History – Into the 21st Century
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