Conference talks

Details of the talks given at the 'Britain's soldiers, 1750-1815' conference, held at Leeds on 7 and 8 July 2011.

The abstracts of all the talks are available in the conference brochure.

You can view photos from the day at flickr.  

Keynote lectures

• Stephen Brumwell (Independent scholar), Soldier of the King, General of the Republic: George Washington and the British Army, 1754-1783
• Stephen Conway (University College London), The eighteenth-century British army as a European institution
• Kevin Linch (University of Leeds) and Matthew McCormack (University of Northampton), Defining Soldiers: Britain’s Military, 1750-1815 

Panel sessions

• Andrew Bamford (Independent scholar), "Injurious to the service generally" The Manpower Crisis of 1813-1814
• Ilya Berkovich (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge), Discipline and Control in Eighteenth-Century Gibraltar
• David Blackmore (Huddersfield University), British Infantry Combat Culture at the outbreak of the Seven Years War
• Moira Bonnington (University of Leeds), The Military Macaroni and the Tears of the Footguards
• Louise Carter (University Campus Suffolk), Scarlet Fever: Women and the Military Man 1780-1815
• Bruce Collins (Sheffield Hallam University), The British Officer Corps
• Gareth Cole (University of Exeter), Sir William Congreve: The Rise of a Military Bureaucrat
• Dani Coombs (University of Leeds), Domestic pull: women, home and desertion
• Erica Charters (University of Oxford), Prisoners of war in the eighteenth century
• Gavin Daly (University of Tasmania), An Iberian Way of War: British Soldiers' Reactions to Spanish and Portuguese Violence in the Peninsular War, 1808-1813
• Gareth Glover (Independent scholar), Expanding the Database: Personal accounts of Britain's soldiers
• Charles Esdaile (University of Liverpool), Bullets, Baggages and Ballads: Forgotten Sources for the Experience of British Women in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815
• Leighton James (Swansea University), Britain's Other Soldiers: Relations between British and non-British troops in the eighteenth century
• Stephen King (Plymouth), Peace and Mutiny: The Discharge of Limited Service Recruits in 1783
• Kevin Linch (University of Leeds), Making new soldiers 1750-1815: legitimacy, identity and attitudes
• Matthew McCormack (University of Northampton), Stamford standoff: honour, status and rivalry in the Georgian military
• Caroline Nielsen (University of Newcastle), Disability, Fraud, and Medical Experience among the Pensioners at the Royal Hospital of Chelsea in the late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
• Cicely Robinson (University of York & the National Maritime Museum), Conflict & Conduct: John Singleton Copley's 'The Defeat of the Spanish Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782'.
• Graciela Iglesias Rogers (University of Oxford), Soldiering abroad: the experience of living and fighting among aliens
• Benjamin Rubin (Graduate of Western Carolina University), The Blame Game: British Military Reputations in the Wake of the American War of Independence.
• John Rumsby (Independent scholar), ‘A testimony of their respect and esteem’: Church and cemetery memorials as a source for the Napoleonic Wars
• Philip Shaw (University of Leicester), The Tired Soldier
• R. Scott Stephenson (The American Revolution Center), Robert Macpherson's American War
• William Tatum III (David Library of the American Revolution), "The Soldiers murmured much on Account of this usage:" Enlisted Men and Military Justice in the eighteenth-century British Army
• Robert Willoughby (University of Arkanas-Fort Smith), Images of British Soldiers in Denis Dighton's Waterloo Paintings
• Britt Zerbe (University of Exeter), The War of American Independence and the Creation of an Imperial Rapid Reaction Force