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The British Commission for Military History was founded in 1965 as the national branch of the International Commission for Military History. It serves as a forum for the discussion and promotion of military history in the broadest sense, without restriction as to period or region.

The Commission is at the forefront of academic debate over many aspects of military history including the centenary of the First World War. Through the British Journal for Military History, a pioneering Open Access, peer-reviewed journal and regular conferences, the BCMH delivers high quality scholarship in military history to an audience beyond academia.

Details of our Forthcoming Events can be found on our Events page

The British Commission for Military History also maintains an active social media presence and can be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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Royal Engineers Historical Society (REHS)

BCMH Members may be interested in the work of the REHS. The first webinar in their 2021 programme on 21 January concerns
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13 January 2021
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Illusions of Peace, A Virtual Conference on 23 – 24 January 2021.

This event was originally scheduled for July 2020.​​​ The years after 1918 did not, as popular myth would have it, bring
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13 January 2021
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RAF Museum Conference 2021, ‘New Thinking in Air Power’ Call for Papers

The Royal Air Force Museum Conference 2021 16-17 September 2021. Note revised date. RAF Museum, London The Royal Air For
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5 January 2021
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ICMH Listing of Military History Conferences – January 2021.

Please find attached the quarterly update, dated 1 January 2021, of the ICMH Forthcoming Military History Conference lis
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3 January 2021
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Tickets Available. Transnationalism in the Long 19th Century

The RRR’s ‘Transnationalism in the Long-Nineteenth Century’ Conference Timetable is now finalised and the tickets are li
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21 December 2020
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The British Journal for Military History is a pioneering Open Access, peer-reviewed journal that brings high quality scholarship in military history to an audience beyond academia.

"The birth of the British Journal for Military History will be as welcome as it is long overdue.

The past few decades have seen the appearance of a new generation of military historians. Some have been serving or retired members of the Armed Forces; some academics or aspiring academics; and some - most welcome of all – amateurs who write for the sheer love of it. The continuing demand for their work is evidenced in every major bookshop, where ‘Military History’ shelves often take up as much space as does mere ‘History’. Even those whose primary interest is not military history as such now realise that a knowledge of the subject is necessary if they are to understand the past, to say nothing of the present. Military history is now too important to be left to the military historians.

For the past few years military historians have been able to communicate with each another at the annual meetings of the British Commission for Military History and through its publication Mars and Clio. Now the BJMH will make their work available to a far wider readership and should attract an increasing number of contributors. It will be not only British, and not only military historians who will wish it well."

Professor Sir Michael Howard

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BCMH Upcoming Events

  1. BCMH AGM 2021

    6 March @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  2. Three Minute Military Thesis (TMMT) 25th March 2021

    25 March @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

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