The History of Emergency Medicine Workshop
Crossing Boundaries: The History of First Aid in Britain and France, 1909-1989’ project
University of Huddersfield
Day One – 27 June 2018
Student Centre Boardroom
12-1.15pm
Welcome and Introductions, Introduction to ‘Crossing Boundaries: The History of First Aid in Britain and France, 1909-1989’ project, and Lunch
1.15pm-3.30pm
Pre-20th century
Lisa Smith, University of Essex
TBC (Early Modern First Aid advice in domestic handbooks)
Sally Frampton, University of Oxford
A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: The First Aid Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Jennifer Wallis, Queen Mary University of London
“Ha! Ha! I am a b(u)oy again.” Henry Silvester and the life-saving method of self-inflation
3.45-5.15pm
Voluntarism and First Aid in France and Britain
Charles-Antoine Wanecq, Sciences Po
Saving lives, training citizens : the French Red Cross, the State and the control of first aid practices (1940s-1970s)
Stefan Ramsden, University of Hull
St John Ambulance and working-class community
Day Two – 28 June
Oastler 6.09
Project Sessions
9.30-10.30am
Rosemary Wall, University of Hull, and Barry Doyle, University of Huddersfield
First Aid on the Roads
10.45am-12noon
Jonathan Reinarz, University of Birmingham, Rebecca Wynter, University of Birmingham, and Shane Ewen, Leeds Beckett University
‘Burns’
12-1
Lunch
1-2
Student Centre Boardroom
Heritage
Interpreting First Aid Heritage collections at the Museum of the Order of St John and the British Red Cross Museum and Archive
2.15-3.30pm
War
Samiksha Sehrewat, University of Newcastle
Providing medical aid in an emergency: Charitable Organizations, the Mesopotamia Medical Breakdown and colonial governmentality
Susan Grayzel, Utah University
“Chemical Weapons Come Home: Devising Defences for Poison Gas in Interwar Britain and France”
3.30-4.30pm
Closing discussions and reflections on connections between the papers, publication, and the first aid history project and policy relevance over tea and coffee.
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