Helen McCartney

Current role:

Helen McCartney is a Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College.  Her research examines British civil-military relations from both contemporary and historical perspectives.  She is author of Citizen Soldiers (2005) and The Somme (co-authored with Robert T. Foley, 2006) and has published articles in the British Medical Journal, British Journal of Psychiatry and International Affairs.  Helen is currently researching a new social and cultural history of the First World War, writing a series of articles on the contemporary relationship between the armed forces and British society and is co-investigator on a joint project examining the ‘lessons learned’ systems of the UK and US armed forces.

Selected Publications

•    Helen McCartney and Robert T Foley, The Somme: An Eyewitness History (London: Folio Society, 2006)
•    Helen McCartney and Gary Sheffield, “Hubert Gough, Fifth Army, 1916-1918,” in Haig's Generals, ed. I F W Beckett and S J Corvi (London, 2006)
•    Citizen Soldiers: The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War (Cambridge, 2005)
•    “Interpreting Unit Histories: Gallipoli and After,” in Gallipoli: Making History, ed. J Macleod (London: Frank Cass, 2004)
•    Helen McCartney, Edgar Jones, Robert Hodgkins-Vermaas et al, “Flashbacks and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Genesis of a Twentieth-Century Diagnosis,” British Journal of Psychiatry 182 (2003): 158-63
•    Helen McCartney, Edgar Jones, Robert Hodgkins-Vermaas et al, “Post-Combat Syndromes from the Boer War to the Gulf War: A Cluster Analysis of their Nature and Attribution,” British Medical Journal (9 February 2002)
•    “Alienation of Soldiers,” in History in Dispute, Vol. 8: World War 1, Second Series, ed. D Showalter (Columbia: Manly, 2002)
•    “Trench Warfare,” in History in Dispute, Vol. 9: World War 1, Second Series, ed. D Showalter (Columbia: Manly, 2002)
•    “Shell Shock,” in History in Dispute, Vol. 9: World War 1, Second Series, ed. D Showalter (Columbia: Manly, 2002)

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