Conference programme: Alliances in the History of Armed Conflict, 1642-Present
Friday, 24 March 2023
1.45pm - 2.00pm
Registration
2.00pm - 2.30pm
Opening Remarks
2.30pm - 4.10pm
Panel 1: Coalitions and Strategic Partnerships in 20th-century Europe
- Chair: Daniel Cowling (National Army Museum)
- Sofya Anisimova (Institute of Historical Research, London):
‘“For Them It Is Not a Service But a Profitable Bargain”: Russia’s Military Strategy and the Entente in 1915-16’ - Kate Clements (Imperial War Museums):
‘The Great Russian Bear, the Great American Buffalo and the Little English Donkey: Churchill's Relationships with Josef Stalin and Franklin D Roosevelt’ - Carson Teuscher (The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio):
‘“It’s a Hyperthyroid War Department!”: Allied Force Headquarters, Multinational Integration and Anglo-American Coalition Management in the Mediterranean, 1942–43’ - Paul Lenormand (Paris-Nanterre University; Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique):
‘The Czechoslovak Physicians in WWII Coalitions: A Transnational Involvement?’
4.10pm - 4.30pm
Break
4.30pm - 5.10pm
Lightning Papers 1
- Julian Farrance (National Army Museum):
'The Order That Launched the Charge of the Light Brigade' - Belinda Day (National Army Museum):
'The Audrey Chitty Collection' - Josh Seymour (National Army Museum):
‘Consolidation of Mud on a Rum Jar’ - Anna Lavelle (National Army Museum):
‘Passed by the Censor: A Set of Lithographs by Raymond Woog’
5.10pm - 6.00pm
Keynote
- Franziska Heimburger (Sorbonne Université):
'"His Knowledge of France and Germany Was Both Intimate and Encyclopaedic": JM Grierson and Coalition Negotiation' - Chair: Glyn Prysor (National Army Museum)
6.00pm - 7.00pm
Drinks Reception in the Atrium
Saturday, 25 March 2023
10.00am - 10.15am
Registration
10.15am - 10.45am
Lightning Papers 2
- Rory Butcher (University of Leeds):
‘“Hampshire Fencibles Protecting Their Bacon”, 1794, and “Colonel Thomas Cooper Everitt, with the Hampshire Fencible Cavalry Drawn Up in the Background”, 1800’ - Teresa Segura-Garcia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona):
‘Private Mementos in the Indian Rebellion of 1857: Captain Robert Shebbeare’s Figurines of Four Sikh Soldiers and a Dog Named Loot’ - Alastair Lockhart (University of Cambridge; MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo; Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, Bedford):
‘An Alliance of Meanings in “Our Monster Tanks”’
10.45am - 10.50am
Short Break
10.50am - 12.30pm
Panel 2: Negotiating Alliances with Auxiliaries, Subsidiary Forces and Non-state Groups
- Chair: Matilda Greig (National Army Museum)
- Callie Wilkinson (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich):
‘The Enemy Within: East India Company Forces in the Service of Indian Allies, 1765-1857’ - Nishant Gokhale (University of Cambridge):
'The Khandesh Bhil Corps: A Curious 19th-century Indigenous-Imperial Alliance’ - Tania Atilano (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin):
‘The French Intervention in Mexico (1862-67): A Case of Alliances Between Civilian Armies and Regular Forces’ - Zuzubee Huidrom (Independent Researcher):
‘Military-civilian Cooperation and Imperial Victory: The Role of Manipuris in the Second World War’
12.30pm - 1.30pm
Lunch
1.30pm - 3.10pm
Panel 3: Personal, Social and Emotional Connections Between Civilian and Military Groups
- Chair: Eamonn O'Keeffe (University of Cambridge)
- Séverine Angers (University of York):
‘The Most Painful Duty to Perform: Mourning and Correspondence Between British Soldiers and Bereaved Families During the Napoleonic Wars’ - Kevin Linch and Simon Quinn (University of Leeds):
‘Family and Social Connections of British Army Officers’ Commissions, 1790-1820’ - Silvia Gregorio-Sainz (University of Oviedo):
‘Tensions in the Anglo-Spanish Relations During the Peninsular War: Santander, 1814’ - Emma Worrall (National Army Museum; University of Chichester):
‘Pets or Pests? Repatriating Soldiers’ Dogs after the First World War’
3.10pm - 3.30pm
Break
3.30pm - 4.45pm
Panel 4: Influencing Public Perceptions of Alliances in Art, Media and Film
- Chair: Glyn Prysor (National Army Museum)
- Nicole Hartwell (University of Cambridge):
‘Alliances in Military Art: The Victoria Cross Paintings of Louis William Desanges’ - Laura Díaz-Esteve (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain):
‘Protecting the Imperial Behaviour in War: The Philippine-American War, the South African War and the British Pacific Press’ - Chris Kempshall (University of Exeter; Royal Military Academy Sandhurst):
‘The People’s Front of Jedha: The Evolving Depiction of the Rebel Alliance’
4.45pm - 5.00pm
