Jessica Meyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Meyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyer |
| SIGNATURE | MEYER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3031-8760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rendering Wartime Lives Visible, Tangible and Audible
The opening essay of this dialogue proposes an artefact-driven material culture approach for teaching the history of the First World War. This method goes beyond using historical objects for primary source analysis. Its broader subject comprises the study of all artefacts (human-made products and effects with material qualities, such as documents, pictures, objects and sound records) and their embodied, sensory and kinetic practices. Emphasising …
A generic approach to estimate airborne concentrations of substances released by indoor spray processes using a deterministic 2-box model
Sprays are used both in workplace and consumer settings. Although spraying has advantages, such as uniform distribution of substances on surfaces in a highly efficient manner, it is often associated with a high inhalation burden. For an adequate risk assessment, this exposure has to be reliably quantified. Exposure models of varying complexity are available, which are applicable to spray applications. However, a need for improvement has been iden…
A Longitudinal, Structured Clinical Remediation Program for Medical Students
Purpose: Clinical competency in undergraduate medical education (UME) is not obtained uniformly across all learners.1 Remediation efforts are needed when students are not progressing as expected. Though academic remediation to improve test taking is common, there is no agreed-upon structure for identification, remediation, and postremediation assessment of clinical performance struggles across UME programs.2,3 Best practices include early assessm…
How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi
Chris Grosvenor, Cinema on the Front Line
‘He does not appear to have done much useful work since he was wounded’
This article considers the ways in which the male life course in twentieth-century Britain can be reconstructed through individual personal pension files of British disabled ex-servicemen from the First World War. The files contain a range of documentation, including military enlistment and discharge forms, medical records, and correspondence from pensioners, their families, and other advocates. Close reading of five of these files explores pensi…
Theoretical Background of Occupational-Exposure Models—Report of an Expert Workshop of the Ises Europe Working Group “Exposure Models”
On 20 October 2020, the Working Group "Exposure Models" of the Europe Regional Chapter of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES Europe) organised an online workshop to discuss the theoretical background of models for the assessment of occupational exposure to chemicals. In this report, participants of the workshop with an active role before and during the workshop summarise the most relevant discussion points and conclusions of this…
A New Model Algorithm for Estimating the Inhalation Exposure Resulting from the Spraying of (Semi)-Volatile Binary Liquid Mixtures (SprayEva)
The spraying of liquid multicomponent mixtures is common in many professional and industrial settings. Typical examples are cleaning agents, additives, coatings, and biocidal products. In all of these examples, hazardous substances can be released in the form of aerosols or vapours. For occupational and consumer risk assessment in regulatory contexts, it is therefore important to know the exposure which results from the amount of chemicals in the…
An analysis of form and function of a research article between and within publishers and journals
The identification and subsequent analysis of research articles for machine learning and natural language processing is a complicated task given the lack of consistent article organization principles and heading naming conventions across publishers and journals. Given this, an understanding of how research articles organizationally follow a common function and their use of various heading terms, or forms, is a critical step in applying machine le…
Medicos, poultice wallahs and comrades in service
The subject of British military medicine during the First World War has long been a fruitful one for historians of gender. From the bodily inspection of recruits and conscripts through the expanding roles of women as medical care providers to the physical and emotional aftermath of conflict experienced by men suffering from war-related wounds and illness, the medical history of the war has shed important light on how the war shaped British mascul…
Playboys and Mayfair Men
‘Burlington Bertie’s the latest young jay: He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way. He spends the good oof that his pater has made Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.’ Harry B. Norris’s 1900 recruiting song, sung by Vesta Tilley around the music halls, delineates a stock figure of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British culture, the upper-class young man-about-town with, apparently, enough money to live a life of leisure in and aroun…
Sound and Silence in Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old
This roundtable offers four diverse perspectives on Peter Jackson’s innovative and controversial World War I documentary film They Shall Not Grow Old (2018). Jackson’s film breaks the mold of the documentary genre in its manipulation and montage of the visual and audio archives held at the Imperial War Museum in London. Yet he puts his technical virtuosity and resources at the service of a very traditional interpretation of the war, focusing almo…
An Equal Burden
An Equal Burden forms the first scholarly study of the Army Medical Services in the First World War to focus on the roles and experiences of the men of the ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). These men, through their work as stretcher-bearers and orderlies, provided a range of labour, both physical and emotional, in aid of the sick and wounded. They were not professional medical caregivers, yet were called upon to provide medical care, …
“A Blind Man’s Homecoming”
This chapter draws upon the personal narratives of noncommissioned rankers serving with the British Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I to explore how these men responded to encounters with bodily strength and weakness in their roles as male caregivers. In particular, it examines how they constructed the disablement of combatant troops by warfare in light of their own role as noncombatant service men. It locates this analysis in the conte…
Nine Centuries of Man
Book review: Nine Centuries of Man: manhood and masculinities in Scottish history, edited by Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Ewan, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2017, xii + 284 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-47440-389-4
Holly Furneaux. Military Men of Feeling
In his 1916 poem “In Memoriam,” written to commemorate the death in battle of Pt. David Sutherland of the 5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, E. A. Mackintosh, Sutherland’s commanding officer, addresses his lost subordinate and his comrades as “more my sons than your fathers’; / For they could only see / The little helpless babies / And the young men in their pride. / They could not see you dying, / And hold you as you died.” Mackintosh’s poem, w…
The Politics of Wounds
Given the growing interest in the history of the medical services in Britain during the First World War, evident in such recent cultural productions as the BBC1 drama The Crimson Field (2014) and J
Introduction
The current centenary of the First World War provides an unrivalled opportunity to uncover some of the social legacies of the war. The four articles which make up this special issue each examine a different facet of the war's impact on British society to explore an as yet untold story. The subjects investigated include logistics, the history of science, the social history of medicine and resistance to war. This article introduces the four which f…
Neutral Caregivers or Military Support? The British Red Cross, the Friends’ Ambulance Unit, and the Problems of Voluntary Medical Aid in Wartime
During the First World War the British Red Cross Society (BRCS) served as the coordinating body for voluntary medical aid giving in Britain. Among the many units which came within its purview was the Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU), formed by a group of young men whose desire to serve their nation in wartime conflicted with their pacifist principles. Both the BRCS and the FAU were wracked by ideological conflicts in the years which preceded and thr…
The Army Isn’t All Work’
This book is visually beautiful. From the full-colour reproduction of a recruiting poster that forms the cover image to the numerous black-and-white photographs of men engaged in sporting activity that liberally illustrate it, the book is lovely to look at. And these images form only a small part of the rich seam of primary source material that James D. Campbell mines in his examination of the role and development of physical culture in the Briti…
Clive Emsley. Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief
Journal Article Clive Emsley. Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914. Get access Clive Emsley. Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. x, 216. $110.00. Jessica Meyer Jessica Meyer University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, …
Lady Sybil's War Work
The Great War on the Small Screen
The television historian Gary R. Edgerton has argued that today most people, both children and adults, gain their primary understanding of the past from television (Gary R. Edgerton, ‘Television as historian: a different kind of history altogether’, in Gary R. Edgerton and Peter C. Rollins (eds), Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age (Lexington, 2001) p. 1). While the scope of this assertion is open to debate, it is cer…
Separating the Men from the Boys
This article examines gendered discourses of shell shock in Britain during the First World War. Located within the context of the ideas about shell shock as a form of male hysteria put forward by Elaine Showalter, it examines the ways in which the contemporary discourses of soldiers, medical professionals and popular novelists used ideas of maturity and self-control to understand a condition that appeared to undermine both the war effort and nati…
Testimony and interrogation of minors
This article examines the legal histories and social contexts of testimony and interrogation involving minors, developmental research on suggestibility and judgment, interactions between development and legal/sociological contexts, and the reasoning behind how minors are treated in different legal contexts. The authors argue (a) that young witnesses, victims, and suspects alike possess youthful characteristics that influence their ability to vali…
Testimony and interrogation of minors
This article examines the legal histories and social contexts of testimony and interrogation involving minors, developmental research on suggestibility and judgment, interactions between development and legal/sociological contexts, and the reasoning behind how minors are treated in different legal contexts. The authors argue (a) that young witnesses, victims, and suspects alike possess youthful characteristics that influence their ability to vali…
Separating the Men from the Boys
This article examines gendered discourses of shell shock in Britain during the First World War. Located within the context of the ideas about shell shock as a form of male hysteria put forward by Elaine Showalter, it examines the ways in which the contemporary discourses of soldiers, medical professionals and popular novelists used ideas of maturity and self-control to understand a condition that appeared to undermine both the war effort and nati…
Medicos, poultice wallahs and comrades in service
The subject of British military medicine during the First World War has long been a fruitful one for historians of gender. From the bodily inspection of recruits and conscripts through the expanding roles of women as medical care providers to the physical and emotional aftermath of conflict experienced by men suffering from war-related wounds and illness, the medical history of the war has shed important light on how the war shaped British mascul…
Neutral Caregivers or Military Support? The British Red Cross, the Friends’ Ambulance Unit, and the Problems of Voluntary Medical Aid in Wartime
During the First World War the British Red Cross Society (BRCS) served as the coordinating body for voluntary medical aid giving in Britain. Among the many units which came within its purview was the Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU), formed by a group of young men whose desire to serve their nation in wartime conflicted with their pacifist principles. Both the BRCS and the FAU were wracked by ideological conflicts in the years which preceded and thr…
An Equal Burden
An Equal Burden forms the first scholarly study of the Army Medical Services in the First World War to focus on the roles and experiences of the men of the ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). These men, through their work as stretcher-bearers and orderlies, provided a range of labour, both physical and emotional, in aid of the sick and wounded. They were not professional medical caregivers, yet were called upon to provide medical care, …
The Politics of Wounds
Given the growing interest in the history of the medical services in Britain during the First World War, evident in such recent cultural productions as the BBC1 drama The Crimson Field (2014) and J
Child, Caregiver, and Temperament Contributions to Infant Joint Attention
Little is known about variables that may contribute to individual differences in infant joint attention, or the coordination of visual attention with a social partner. Therefore, this study examined the contributions of caregiver behavior and temperament to infant joint attention development between 9 and 12 months. Data were collected from 57 infants using a caregiver–infant paradigm, an infant–tester paradigm, and a parent report of infant temp…
Not Septimus Now
Much of the writing on gender and the First World War has looked at the ways in which pre-war gender norms were reasserted in British society after the War. The article looks at the experiences of one group of women, the wives of men psychologically disabled by the experience of war, to show how disability could prevent the reassertion of pre-war gender roles. The experiences of these women, as expressed in the disability files created by the Min…
Testimony and interrogation of minors
This article examines the legal histories and social contexts of testimony and interrogation involving minors, developmental research on suggestibility and judgment, interactions between development and legal/sociological contexts, and the reasoning behind how minors are treated in different legal contexts. The authors argue (a) that young witnesses, victims, and suspects alike possess youthful characteristics that influence their ability to vali…
Separating the Men from the Boys
This article examines gendered discourses of shell shock in Britain during the First World War. Located within the context of the ideas about shell shock as a form of male hysteria put forward by Elaine Showalter, it examines the ways in which the contemporary discourses of soldiers, medical professionals and popular novelists used ideas of maturity and self-control to understand a condition that appeared to undermine both the war effort and nati…
The Great War on the Small Screen
The television historian Gary R. Edgerton has argued that today most people, both children and adults, gain their primary understanding of the past from television (Gary R. Edgerton, ‘Television as historian: a different kind of history altogether’, in Gary R. Edgerton and Peter C. Rollins (eds), Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age (Lexington, 2001) p. 1). While the scope of this assertion is open to debate, it is cer…
Lady Sybil's War Work
The Army Isn’t All Work’
This book is visually beautiful. From the full-colour reproduction of a recruiting poster that forms the cover image to the numerous black-and-white photographs of men engaged in sporting activity that liberally illustrate it, the book is lovely to look at. And these images form only a small part of the rich seam of primary source material that James D. Campbell mines in his examination of the role and development of physical culture in the Briti…
Clive Emsley. Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief
Journal Article Clive Emsley. Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914. Get access Clive Emsley. Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. x, 216. $110.00. Jessica Meyer Jessica Meyer University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, …
The Politics of Wounds
Given the growing interest in the history of the medical services in Britain during the First World War, evident in such recent cultural productions as the BBC1 drama The Crimson Field (2014) and J
Introduction
The current centenary of the First World War provides an unrivalled opportunity to uncover some of the social legacies of the war. The four articles which make up this special issue each examine a different facet of the war's impact on British society to explore an as yet untold story. The subjects investigated include logistics, the history of science, the social history of medicine and resistance to war. This article introduces the four which f…
Neutral Caregivers or Military Support? The British Red Cross, the Friends’ Ambulance Unit, and the Problems of Voluntary Medical Aid in Wartime
During the First World War the British Red Cross Society (BRCS) served as the coordinating body for voluntary medical aid giving in Britain. Among the many units which came within its purview was the Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU), formed by a group of young men whose desire to serve their nation in wartime conflicted with their pacifist principles. Both the BRCS and the FAU were wracked by ideological conflicts in the years which preceded and thr…
“A Blind Man’s Homecoming”
This chapter draws upon the personal narratives of noncommissioned rankers serving with the British Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I to explore how these men responded to encounters with bodily strength and weakness in their roles as male caregivers. In particular, it examines how they constructed the disablement of combatant troops by warfare in light of their own role as noncombatant service men. It locates this analysis in the conte…
Nine Centuries of Man
Book review: Nine Centuries of Man: manhood and masculinities in Scottish history, edited by Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Ewan, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2017, xii + 284 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-47440-389-4
Holly Furneaux. Military Men of Feeling
In his 1916 poem “In Memoriam,” written to commemorate the death in battle of Pt. David Sutherland of the 5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, E. A. Mackintosh, Sutherland’s commanding officer, addresses his lost subordinate and his comrades as “more my sons than your fathers’; / For they could only see / The little helpless babies / And the young men in their pride. / They could not see you dying, / And hold you as you died.” Mackintosh’s poem, w…
Playboys and Mayfair Men
‘Burlington Bertie’s the latest young jay: He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way. He spends the good oof that his pater has made Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.’ Harry B. Norris’s 1900 recruiting song, sung by Vesta Tilley around the music halls, delineates a stock figure of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British culture, the upper-class young man-about-town with, apparently, enough money to live a life of leisure in and aroun…
Sound and Silence in Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old
This roundtable offers four diverse perspectives on Peter Jackson’s innovative and controversial World War I documentary film They Shall Not Grow Old (2018). Jackson’s film breaks the mold of the documentary genre in its manipulation and montage of the visual and audio archives held at the Imperial War Museum in London. Yet he puts his technical virtuosity and resources at the service of a very traditional interpretation of the war, focusing almo…
An Equal Burden
An Equal Burden forms the first scholarly study of the Army Medical Services in the First World War to focus on the roles and experiences of the men of the ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). These men, through their work as stretcher-bearers and orderlies, provided a range of labour, both physical and emotional, in aid of the sick and wounded. They were not professional medical caregivers, yet were called upon to provide medical care, …
Medicos, poultice wallahs and comrades in service
The subject of British military medicine during the First World War has long been a fruitful one for historians of gender. From the bodily inspection of recruits and conscripts through the expanding roles of women as medical care providers to the physical and emotional aftermath of conflict experienced by men suffering from war-related wounds and illness, the medical history of the war has shed important light on how the war shaped British mascul…
An analysis of form and function of a research article between and within publishers and journals
The identification and subsequent analysis of research articles for machine learning and natural language processing is a complicated task given the lack of consistent article organization principles and heading naming conventions across publishers and journals. Given this, an understanding of how research articles organizationally follow a common function and their use of various heading terms, or forms, is a critical step in applying machine le…
Chris Grosvenor, Cinema on the Front Line
‘He does not appear to have done much useful work since he was wounded’
This article considers the ways in which the male life course in twentieth-century Britain can be reconstructed through individual personal pension files of British disabled ex-servicemen from the First World War. The files contain a range of documentation, including military enlistment and discharge forms, medical records, and correspondence from pensioners, their families, and other advocates. Close reading of five of these files explores pensi…
Theoretical Background of Occupational-Exposure Models—Report of an Expert Workshop of the Ises Europe Working Group “Exposure Models”
On 20 October 2020, the Working Group "Exposure Models" of the Europe Regional Chapter of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES Europe) organised an online workshop to discuss the theoretical background of models for the assessment of occupational exposure to chemicals. In this report, participants of the workshop with an active role before and during the workshop summarise the most relevant discussion points and conclusions of this…
A New Model Algorithm for Estimating the Inhalation Exposure Resulting from the Spraying of (Semi)-Volatile Binary Liquid Mixtures (SprayEva)
The spraying of liquid multicomponent mixtures is common in many professional and industrial settings. Typical examples are cleaning agents, additives, coatings, and biocidal products. In all of these examples, hazardous substances can be released in the form of aerosols or vapours. For occupational and consumer risk assessment in regulatory contexts, it is therefore important to know the exposure which results from the amount of chemicals in the…
A Longitudinal, Structured Clinical Remediation Program for Medical Students
Purpose: Clinical competency in undergraduate medical education (UME) is not obtained uniformly across all learners.1 Remediation efforts are needed when students are not progressing as expected. Though academic remediation to improve test taking is common, there is no agreed-upon structure for identification, remediation, and postremediation assessment of clinical performance struggles across UME programs.2,3 Best practices include early assessm…
How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi
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