Dr Emma Newlands

Senior Lecturer

History

Personal statement

I am a lecturer in Modern British History, with particular interests in war, medicine and military culture. In 2013 I was awarded a Chancellor's Fellowship for a study of military medical caregiving in the Second World War. I am currently working on a British Academy-funded project on lived experiences of RAMC personnel between 1939 and 1945.

Expertise

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Qualifications

2010, PhD History, Univeristy of Strathclyde

2004, MPhil Social History, University of Glasgow/University of Strathclyde

2003, BA Hons (First Class), University of Stirling

Publications

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Publications

The body and becoming a soldier in Britain during the Second World War: Newlands Emma; Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars (2021) (2021)
'I thought it must be Christmas and blew it up' : humour in British soldier's responses to venereal disease controls during the Second World War: Newlands Emma; Keep Smiling Through Humour in the Second World War (2020) (2020)
Blessures et pathologies. Médecine et chirurgie: Newlands Emma; Encyclopedie de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (2015) (2015)
Civilians into Soldiers : War, the Body and British Army Recruits, 1939-45: Newlands Emma; Cultural History of Modern War Cultural History of Modern War (2014)
'They even gave us oranges on one occasion' : human experimentation in the British Army during the Second World War: Newlands Emma; War and Society Vol 32, pp. 19-63 (2013); https://doi.org/10.1179/0729247312Z.00000000016
Preparing and resisting the war body : training in the British Army: Newlands Emma; War and the Body Militarisation, Practice and Experience (2012) (2012)

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Teaching

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Teaching

I currently teach on the following undergraduate courses:

War and Society in the Twentieth Century
Disease and Society: An Introduction to the History of Medicine
Dangerous Drugs and Magic Bullets: the Social History of Medicines in Modernity
Basic British History: From 1700 to the Present Day
Medicine and Warfare in the Twentieth Century
Bringing out the Bodies in History
Madness and Society from Ancient Times to the Present
For the Benefit of Mankind: Human experiments in history
Men at War, 1914-45

I also run the MSc modules Medicine and Warfare, 1800-2000 and The Working Man in Modern Britain

Research

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Research Interests

I am interested in military health and medicine in the twentieth century, particularly the ways in which the British Armed Forces have prepared civilian men for military service through bodily regimes. I also conduct research on the medical and scientific experiments that have been carried out on military personnel since 1939. My first monograph, Civilians into Soldiers: War, the Body and British Army Recruits, 1939-1945, will be published by Manchester University Press in August 2014. I am currently working on a project on the lived experiences of men who service in the Royal Army Medical Corps between 1939 and 1945. Drawing on their personal testimonies, this research examines themes including masculinity, class, and emotional responses to war.

I also coordinate the CSHHH 'Journeys Through Health History' schools engagement project, which delivers history of medicine materias as part of the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland. This project, funded by the University of Strathclyde, brings together the CSHHH Glasgow, Learning Teaching Scotland, the Wellcome Trust Library, Glasgow Museums, the National Library of Scotland and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. To-date, I have worked with Bellahouston Academy, St Peter the Apostle High School and Port Glasgow High.