'Angels and Adventuresses: Images and Experiences of First World War Nurses' to be held at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre 9-10th September 2010 (360G-Wellcome-091174_Z_10_Z)

The workshop aims to bring together 13 world-class academics in the fields of history and literary studies. Each has already published scholarly work in the area of First World War nursing, and has a recognized reputation for work in this field. Working within different disciplines, however, these researchers have rarely (if at all) had opportunities to interact, debate and discuss their approaches collectively. The workshop will be an invaluable opportunity for participants to develop a new piece of work for publication, while productively engaging with approaches to the sources gleaned from different disciplines (history, history of medicine, gender studies, literary studies). It will extend across two days, and will give each participant the opportunity to present his or her sources and initial findings and then engage in discussion and debate with colleagues. The intended output from the event is an edited book with the working title: 'Angels and Adventuresses: Images and Experiences of First World War Nurses'. The objectives of the project are therefore: to hold a two-day workshop of world-class scholars in the field of First World War nursing; to develop a series of interlinked papers, which will collectively form a comparative, interdisciplinary and scholarly publication; to use the workshop as a forum for exchange and debate, thereby shaping these individual pieces in order to give them coherence as parts of a larger work; to produce an edited text for publication by a major academic publisher.