Biography
Dr Fiona Reid has previously taught History at UWE, the University of Cardiff and the University of South Wales. She has been an external examiner at the University of Gloucestershire and at Wrexham Glyndwr. She has previously sat on the steering committee of the Women’s History Society and on the Council of the National Army Records Society. She has examined a wide range of PhDs on medicine and warfare, and currently has one PhD student who is writing on gender and the popular press in 六合彩开奖结果 in the 1920s.
Profile
Research Interests
Dr Fiona Reid is an historian of the social and cultural history of war and has written widely about the First World War in Europe and about refugees and displaced people in the Second World War. She is particularly interested in the consequences of war trauma and in the coping mechanisms of combat troops, medical personnel and civilians both during war and afterwards.
Selected previous publications
Medicine in First World War Europe: Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists (London: Bloomsbury 2017)
Broken Men: shell shock, treatment and recovery in Britain 1914-30 (Hambeldon Continuum: 2010) [Paperback version, 2011].
Sharif Gemie, Fiona Reid and Laure Humbert, Outcast Europe, 1936-1948: refugee experiences in an era of total war (Hambledon Continuum, 2011).
Medical voices against war / voices against the medical war鈥� in Re-thinking Resilience: Health and World War One Edited by Leo van Bergen and Eric Vermetten (Brill, 2020).
I am currently writing about the history of pacifism in Britain, and also about stories of war trauma throughout the twentieth century.
Teaching
Dr Fiona Reid is available to supervise PhDs in her area of expertise. Administrative Responsibilities Dr Fiona Reid is chair of the Student Experience group.
Other Activities
Conferences and Other Research Activity
‘Care after the First World War鈥�, an international, interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Leeds, 9-11 April 2018
鈥樷�淢y friends looked at me in horror鈥�: coping with wounds and wounded men in the First World War鈥�, Georgian Court University, New Jersey, 鈥榃orld War I: Dissent, Activism, and Transformation鈥�, 17 October 2014.
鈥樷�淭he horrible monotony鈥�: wounds and wounded bodies in the Great War鈥�, Saint-Remy-la-Calonne, 鈥楥olloque Grande Guerre, Festival litt茅raire 鈥楲e Printemps du Grand Meaulnes鈥�, 16 May 2014.
鈥楾he Battle-Stained Hero, the Cheery Chap and 鈥渂ase fellows鈥濃�� University of Leeds, 鈥楾he Medical History of the First World War in Europe鈥�, October 2013.
鈥楲osing Face: Maxillo-Facial Injury in The First World War鈥� University of Copenhagen, 鈥楢ftershock鈥�, May 2013.
Publications
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
鈥樷�淢y friends looked at me in horror鈥�: idealisations of wounded men in the First World War鈥�, Peace and Change 41/1 (January 2016), pp.64-77.
(2015) Fiona Reid and Stephanie Ward, 鈥榃omen, State and Nation: creating gendered identities鈥�, Women鈥檚 History Review, 24/1.
鈥樷�楬is nerves gave way鈥� Shell shock, history and the memory of the First World in Britain鈥�, Endeavour 38/2 June 2014, pp.91-100.
Fiona Reid and Christine Van Everbroeck, 鈥楽hell Shock and the Kloppe: War Neuroses amongst British and Belgian troops during and after the First World War鈥�, Medicine Conflict and Survival 30, no. 4 (December 2014), pp.252-75.
鈥榃ar Psychiatry鈥� available in the International Encyclopedia of the First World War. See
(2013) Fiona Reid and Sharif Gemie, 鈥楾he Friends Relief Service and Displaced
People in Europe after the Second World War, 1945-1948鈥�, Quaker Studies, 17/2.
(2011) 鈥楶ost Traumatic Stress Disorder鈥� Encyclopaedia of War (Wiley Blackwell).
(2011) Norman LaPorte, Fiona Reid and Gareth Williams, 鈥楥old War Wales: Introduction鈥�,听 Llafur: Journal of Welsh People鈥檚 History, 10/4.
(2011) Sharif Gemie and Fiona Reid, 鈥楥onstructing Citizenship? – Women, Welfare and Refugees (France, 1939-1940)鈥�, Women鈥檚 History Review, 20/3.
(2007) 鈥楧istinguishing between shell-shocked veterans and pauper lunatics: the Ex-Services鈥� Welfare Society and pauper lunatics after the Great War鈥�, War in History, 14.
(2007) Sharif Gemie and Fiona Reid, 鈥楥haos, panic and the historiography of the exode (France, 1940)鈥�, War and Society, XXVI.
(2005) 鈥樷�淧laying the game to the army鈥�: The Royal Army Medical Corps, Shell Shock and the Great War鈥�, War and Society, XXIII.
Books
Medicine in First World War Europe: Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists (London: Bloomsbury 2017)
Sharif Gemie, Fiona Reid and Laure Humbert, Outcast Europe, 1936-1948: refugee experiences in an era of total war (Hambledon Continuum, 2011).
Broken Men: shell shock, treatment and recovery in Britain 1914-30 (Hambeldon Continuum: 2010) [Paperback version, 2011].
Edited Books
(2010) Kath Holden and Fiona Reid (eds) Women on the Move: refugees, migration and exile, (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars).
Chapters in Books
Medical voices against war / voices against the medical war鈥� in Re-thinking Resilience: Health and World War One Edited by Leo van Bergen and Eric Vermetten (Brill, 2020)
鈥楲osing Face: trauma and maxillofacial injury in the First World War鈥� in Aftershock: Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the Great War Edited by Peter Leese and Jason Crouthamel (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) pp.25-47.
Book Reviews
(2017)听 Wellcome Library Open Peer Review, on Novotny, 鈥楾o 鈥渢ake their place among the productive members of society鈥�: Vocational rehabilitation of WWI wounded at Erskine鈥�,
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听(2013) 鈥�What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France by Marie Louise Roberts鈥�, in THES.
(2013) Panikos Panayi, Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War鈥�, in BBC History.
Popular Articles
鈥楬aunted by Dreams of the Trenches鈥�, BBC History Armistice Centenary Edition (November 2018)
鈥楳edical Advances in the First World War鈥� BBC History: The Story of Medicine (April 2017) pp.109-113.
鈥楾he Great Misconceptions of the First World War: Shell shocked soldiers were usually shot for cowardice during the First World War鈥� BBC History (August 2014) p.34.
听(February 2013) 鈥楬istory on film鈥�, BBC History.
(December 2010) 鈥楥hristmas in the Camps: The Friends鈥� Relief Service and Christmas
celebrations amongst Displaced Persons 1945-1948鈥�, BBC History.
听(November 2009) 鈥楩rom First Remembrance to Remembrance Today鈥�, BBC History.
(2008) Sharif Gemie, Laure Humbert, Fiona Reid, 鈥榃hy Study Refugee History?
鈥� six answers鈥�, Planet: the Welsh Internationalist, 161.
(2017) 鈥楴ot 鈥榦rdinary lunatics鈥�: the Ex-Services鈥� Welfare Society and the treatment of shell-shocked men after the Great War鈥�, Stand To! Journal of the Western Front Association.
Public Engagement and online
BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Interview for 鈥楢 Family in World War One鈥� (transmission date 12 November 2017).
Arts For Medicine, Invited speaker at (one day symposium) 30 September 2017.
Liverpool Cathedral, 鈥楽hell Shock, Men and Medicine in the First World War鈥�, Liverpool Cathedral, 18 September 2017 (talk jointly organised by Liverpool University and Liverpool Cathedral).
The National Army Museum, 鈥楧rugs, Alcohol and Lucky Charms: soldiers and self-medication in war鈥�, (15 September 2017). See
Combat Stress (with King鈥檚 Centre for Military Health Research) Seminar on History and Practice of treating PTSD, 8 June 2017.
The National Army Museum, 鈥楩rom Shellshock to PTSD: Discussion on How Best To Support Our Troops鈥� – Matthew Green, Dr Fiona Reid & Jake Wood, 19 May 2016.
World War One and facial injury podcast for the University of South Wales, October 2016. 听
Western Front Association, 鈥楽hell Shock after the First World War鈥�, South Gloucestershire branch, Wednesday 19 October 2016.
Open University (MOOC) 鈥榃hat is shell shock? Understanding shell shock鈥� Open Learn .
Open University, War, Conflict and Politics Research Group, 鈥楽urviving Shell Shock during the First World War鈥�, 21 July 2011.
Selected Conference Addresses and Papers
Keynote speaker at 鈥楥are after the First World War鈥�, an international, interdisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Leeds, 9-11 April 2018
鈥樷�淢y friends looked at me in horror鈥�: coping with wounds and wounded men in the First World War鈥�, Georgian Court University, New Jersey, 鈥榃orld War I: Dissent, Activism, and Transformation鈥�, 17 October 2014.
鈥樷�淭he horrible monotony鈥�: wounds and wounded bodies in the Great War鈥�, Saint-Remy-la-Calonne, 鈥楥olloque Grande Guerre, Festival litt茅raire 鈥楲e Printemps du Grand Meaulnes鈥�, 16 May 2014.
鈥楾he Battle-Stained Hero, the Cheery Chap and 鈥渂ase fellows鈥濃�� University of Leeds, 鈥楾he Medical History of the First World War in Europe鈥�, October 2013.
鈥楲osing Face: Maxillo-Facial Injury in The First World War鈥� University Of Copenhagen, 鈥楢ftershock鈥�, May 2013.