Military welfare history in the classroom: converting research passions into lesson plans

Military welfare history as a scholarly project is both well developed and still evolving. We now have a substantive community of scholars who have produced a robust body of literature. But what about the teaching project? How can we ‘translate’ military welfare scholarship into lesson plans? How can we share scholarly findings and questions with new generations of students – and, indeed, with public audiences of all kinds? This article reflects on military welfare history as a pedagogy project, offering some reflections on how we can rethink our approaches to teaching academic research in our classrooms – wherever they may be.