Prosthetics and Poverty: Disabled servicemen and their families after the war
In this presentation, which was delivered 'live' to an online audience, Dr Martin Purdy examines the treatment of disabled Great War servicemen after the Armistice.
He also looks at a groundbreaking, but little-known, movement to provide model family settlements for them to live in. Martin draws heavily on stories of poignancy, wit, pathos and bravery from The Westfield War Memorial Village in Lancaster, where he completed his doctorate and is the lead historian.
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