'Mobilising Resources for War'
Conference Programme
MOBILISING RESOURCES FOR WAR
The Old Library, All Souls College, Oxford
December 10th 2019
08.45-09.00 Registration
09.00-09.15 Opening remarks: Peter H. Wilson (Oxford)
09.15-10.00 Catherine Fletcher (Swansea)
‘Guns and their Gatekeepers: Shopping for Small Arms in Sixteenth-Century Italy’
10.00-10.45 Andrew Hopper (Leicester)
‘The Politics of Military Welfare in Civil-War Yorkshire’
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.00 Patrik Winton (Örebro)
‘Mobilizing transnational military supplies during the Swedish campaign against Russia, 1741–1743’
12.00-12.45 Erica Charters (Oxford)
‘Mobilising Manpower in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World’
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.30 James Davey (Exeter)
'‘Impressment, Resistance and the Reach of the State 1793-1801’
14.30-15.15 Felix Brahm (German Historical Institute London)
‘Gunpowder as a Strategic Resource in Pre-colonial East Africa’
15.15-15.35 Tea
15.35-16.20 Joe Maiolo (KCL)
‘Was the Second World War a ‘resource war’?’
16.20-17.05 Jonathan Fennell (KCL)
‘A Question of Legitimacy: Mobilising the British and Commonwealth Armies in the Second World War’
17.05-17.30 Roundtable Discussion
Registration (including coffees and a sandwich lunch) is free but places are limited.
To express your interest, please email war@history.ox.ac.uk
