Deadline 24th January 2021. The BCMH’s ‘Three Minute Military Thesis’ Competition is back! Thanks to generous sponsorship from the National Army Museum Development Trust, the prize fund has doubled. With a first prize of £200, runner’s up prize of £100, and a new ‘People’s Choice’ awa

Set up at the start of lockdown, www.historygoeson.com is the BCMH’s answer to Covid-cancelled conferences, and virtual research sharing. It hosts videos and audio recordings of conference papers on a range of topics relating to military history. The team are always looking for fresh

Latest News The Call for Papers was very successful and this event will now run for two whole days on the Friday and Saturday. We are pleased to announce that booking is now open for Theatres of War: The BCMH New Researchers' Conference, 8-9 November 2019. Programme The conference pro

     The French army in the Great War has received little consideration in the English speaking world and there have been few works about it in English until relatively recently. The deep mining of the British army’s record in the Great War over the last thirty yea

Latest News The Call for Papers was very successful and this event will now run for two whole days on the Friday and Saturday. We are pleased to announce that booking is now open for Theatres of War: The BCMH New Researchers' Conference, 8-9 November 2019.  Programme The conference pr

The Annual Conference of the Second World War Research Group The Second World War in Comparative Perspective University of Wolverhampton, 13-14 June 2019 Keynotes: Professor Jeremy Black (University of Exeter) and Dr Jenny Macleod (University of Hull) Conference details The Centre for

What is the Defence Research Network? The Defence Research Network (DRN) is for PhD and early career researchers studying defence, security or the Armed Forces in relation to policy, strategy, culture and society. We provide a platform to which PhD and early-career researchers can com

Gerda Henkel of the Research Center of the Historial de la Grande Guerre Scholarship The International Research Center of the Historial de la Grande Guerre  awards research grants annually to students who are currently engaged in research for a Ph.D on the First World War or a subject

Battlefield Tour, April 2017 Tour Report from Frank Baldwin which includes the famous Chanson de Craonne       Documents Herewith a link to the dreaded Wikipedia entry on the Nivelle Offensive which, in the absence of very much material in English, is quite informative.