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Description: My name is Jessica Meyer and I am a research historian at the University of Leeds, currently funded by the European Research Council. I am working on a project that examines the care provided to disabled ex-servicemen by the British state, charities and their families after the First World War. I am particularly interested in…
My name is Jessica Meyer and I am a research historian at the University of Leeds, currently funded by the European Research Council. I am working on a project that examines the care provided to disabled ex-servicemen by the British state, charities and their families after the First World War. I am particularly interested in the ways in which the provision of care by these three groups was shaped by gender (of both carer and cared for), and how this in turn shaped cultural understandings of the gendering
My monograph, An Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War, is available from Oxford University Press open access and can be downloaded here . This work was generously funded by a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship (2011-2015).
Broadly my interests include the history of gender, particularly masculinity, the history of disability, especially war disability, the history of popular and middlebrow literature, mainly detective and adventure fiction, and the social and cultural history of warfare.
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