Forthcoming speaking engagements
Previous speaking engagements
‘‘A happy release from an earthly existence of torment and hunger. R.I.P.’ The war graves of Far East POWs who died on the Thai-Burma railway’, Future Memories: Where next for Far East Prisoner Of War Studies? University of Leeds, 19 March 2018
‘Penning their personal narratives: the letters, diaries and logbooks of British prisoners of war held in Europe in the Second World War’, Institute of Historical Research, London, 14 November 2017
‘POW Art’ at War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict – Book Launch, Birkbeck,London, 6pm, 8 November 2017. A podcast of the book launch is available here.
‘Prisoners of War: experiences and emotions’, National Army Museum, London, 6 October 2017
‘Living beyond the barbed wire: the familial ties of British prisoners of war held in Europe during the Second World War’, North London Branch of the Historical Association. 13 January 2015.
‘The British serviceman’s experiences in Italian prisoner of war camps’, ‘POW ’40-’45. Military prisoners in the SecondWorld War between Italy and England: history and memory’, Historical Institute of the Resistance Movement, Fossoli Foundation, San Martino Foundation, the municipality of Fontanellato and the Emilia-Romagna Region, Fontanellato, September 2013.
‘Going ‘round the bend’: The mental disturbances suffered by British prisoners of war held in Germany and Italy during the Second World War’, Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Düsseldorf, July 2013.
‘Bringing home the “awkward lot”. The homecoming of British prisoners of war from Europe at the end of the Second World War’, Social History Society Conference, Brighton, April 2012.
‘Living beyond the barbed wire: the familial ties of British prisoners of war held in Europe during the Second World War’, The London School of Economics, March 2012.
‘Traversing the boundaries of ‘home’ and ‘front’: POWs and their relationships beyond the barbed wire’, The Second World War, Popular Culture and Cultural Memory conference, Brighton, July 2011.
‘The homecoming of British POWs from Europe at the end of the Second World War’, Research Students Seminar Series, Birkbeck College, University of London, November 2011.