It's my pleasure to be a historian of early modern Britain and Europe. I aim to foster historical thinking about the connection between the past and the present among my students, and through them to the wider public. I also think that doing history is remarkably fun.

Books/Collections

Matthew Neufeld, Early Modern Naval Health Care in England, 1650-1750 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024) 

https://www.mqup.ca/early-modern-naval-health-care-in-england--1650---1750-products-9780228020592.php?page_id=46&

Krista Kesselring and Matthew Neufeld, Editors, Reckoning with History: Essays on Uses of the Past (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024)

Reckoning with History | McGill-Queen’s University Press (mqup.ca)

Matthew Neufeld,The Civil Wars after 1660: public remembering in late Stuart England (Woodbridge, 2013) https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-civil-wars-after-1660-hb.html

Matthew Neufeld, Editor of The Uses of the Past in Early Modern England, a special issue of Huntington Library Quarterly, 76 (2013).

Articles and Book Chapters

I am happy to supervise students wishing to do MA topics in the history of early modern Britain: I would welcome proposals to do doctoral work on aspects of English social and cultural history from 1650 to 1750.

I have taught the following postgraduate and undergraduate courses at the U of Saskatchewan:

• Hist 319.3  War in German Lands from Luther to Clausewitz
• Hist 233.3  War and Medicine from Paracelsus to Penicillin
• Hist 145.3, War in the Early Modern European World
• Hist 884.3, Historical Writing
• Hist 444.3, Social and Cultural History of Early Modern Britain
• Hist 241.3, Anglobalization: Britain and its Empires, 1700-1950
• Hist 883.3  Historical Methods
• Hist 240.3, More than Conquerors: The British Peoples and their World, 1540-1720
• Hist 397.3, Approaches to History
• Hist 125.3, Britain and British Empires since Caesar
• Hist 246.6, The Rise and Fall of Imperial Britain
• Hist 122.3, Europe in the Age of Mass Culture
• Hist 498.3, Gender and the Family in Early Modern Britain

early modern Britain early modern Europe healthcare naval and maritime history peace building war war and historical memory war and imperial state formation war and society

My research aims to help us understand and explain some of the important social changes that stemmed from the experience of warfare and state formation in post-Reformation Britain and Europe.

In spring 2022, I was awarded an Insight Grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to research the treatment of prisoners of war, focusing on Britain, Austria, France and Spain during the 18^th century. The three-year project aims to provide historical context and resources for moral decision making in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) today and to encourage public discussion about the complex ethical challenges facing military personnel.