Carol Acton - Working in a world of hurt

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Ana Carden-Coyne, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Penny Summerfield and Bertrand Taithe

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Emma Newlands Civilians into soldiers: War, the body and British Army recruits, 193945

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Michael Roper The secret battle: emotional survival in the Great War

Penny Summerfield and Corinna Peniston-Bird Contesting home defence: men, women and the Home Guard in the Second World War

Wendy Ugolini Experiencing war as the enemy other: Italian Scottish experience in World War II

Laura Ugolini Civvies: middle-class men on the English Home Front, 191418

Colette Wilson Paris and the Commune, 187178: the politics of forgetting

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Carol Acton and Jane Potter

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Our shared interests in First World War nursing brought us together as friends and then as co-authors, who have somehow managed to remain friends despite the trials and tribulations of research, writing and numerous trips across the Atlantic. We have benefited greatly from the support of many institutions and individuals over the past five years.

The librarians and archivists at the following collections have been unfailingly helpful and courteous. Without these collections and the institutions that support them this work could not be undertaken: the Department of Documents, the Imperial War Museum, London; the Liddle Collection, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds; the Wellcome Trust Library and Archives, London; the Army Medical Services Museum Archives, Keogh Barracks, Surrey; Library and Archives Canada and the George Metcalf Archival Collection in the Military History Research Centre at the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa; American Folklife Center Archives, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Archives of the US Army Medical Museum, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Carol would like to thank St Jeromes University and the University of Waterloo for funding and research leave that made the necessary archival work possible; she also thanks the wonderful librarian at St Jeromes University, Lorna Rourke, for her help in sourcing and buying books and aiding in database searches. We thank our university colleagues who have engaged in discussion on this topic and our students who have shared their enthusiasm for this material, in particular postgraduates in English 780 Winter 2012 at the University of Waterloo and MA and BA Publishing students at Oxford Brookes University.

We would like to thank the following copyright holders for permission to reprint material in the following pages:

The Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum (for the papers of J. B. Reid, Allan Hanson, W. Watson, R. B. C. Welsh, David Westlake and Trevor Gibbens); Ann Kimzey and the Grover Carter Family (for the papers of Grover Carter); the Liddle Collection, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds (for the archives of Katherine Ferguson, Nurse Hitchens and C. McKerrow); Kathy Lowe/the Mary Morris Trust (for the diary of Mary Morris); Peter Randolph (for An Unexpected Odyssey by Edgar Randolph); Michael Tattersall (for the papers of Norman Tattersall); the Imperial War Museum (for the oral interview/sound recording of Eileen Joan Nicolson); and the Wellcome Library (for the memoir of Mary Knocker). Permission to quote from Ken Adams, Healing in Hell: The Memoirs of a Far Eastern POW Medic, is granted by Pen and Sword Books. Excerpts from Ronald J. Glasser, 365 Days (Copyright 1971, 1980 by Ronald J. Glasser), are reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of George Braziller Inc., www.georgebraziller.com. Excerpts from Ruffs War: A Navy Nurse on the Frontline in Iraq (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2005) are reprinted, by permission, from K. Sue Roper and Cheryl Lynn Ruff. Lines from Brian Turner, AB Negative from his collection Here, Bullet (Copyright 2005 by Brian Turner), are reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Alice James Books, www.alicejamesbooks.org. Quotations from the late Lynda VanDevanters Home before Morning, are reprinted with the kind permission of Tom Buckley. Quotations from the late Aidan MacCarthys A Doctors War are reprinted with kind permission of Nicola and Adrienne MacCarthy. We have made every effort to trace the copyright holders of other sources quoted in the following pages and should be glad to receive details from those to whom we have not made proper acknowledgement.

For many years our families have listened to our endless talk about war and trauma. Last but not least, we thank them.