Please see the latest Women in War Newsletter featuring articles on female military leadership and a signaller at Arnhem, medical aspects of Sir Winston Churchill and the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA). Image Queen Aethelfleda with her nephew, Aethelstan Tamworth Heritage Trust

Please see the latest Women in War Newsletter featuring articles on - Alice in Wonderland (with a military theme) and, from a darker era, a new book on the history of Concentration Camps and the plight of a family during the invasion of Poland in 1939. Image Bundesarchiv via Wikimedia

Here is the latest Women in War Newsletter focussing on Rose O'Neal Greenhow, the famous spy in the American Civil War by Tony Heathcote.

The 2nd Modern Conflict Research Symposium will be hosted at the Imperial War Museum North, Manchester on 31 January / 1 February 2020. Tickets  are now available to purchase via the university of Huddersfield. MCRS is an interdisciplinary conference which provides a space for discuss

Please see the Women in War Newsletter for December 2019.

See also our Events page at http://www.bcmh.org.uk/event/2nd-modern-conflict-research-symposium-31-jan-1-feb-2020/ The 2nd Modern Conflict Research Symposium will be hosted at the Imperial War Museum North, Manchester on 31 January / 1 February 2020. Tickets  are now available to

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 latest issue of the BJMH has been published at http://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh/issue/view/71 . You can download the individual articles or the complete issue as pdfs. Congratulations to Richard Grayson and everyone in his team!

Please see the latest Women in War Newsletter for Spring 2019.      

This  is a remarkable project and website documenting the geographical distribution of UK citizens who died in the Great War. The map is here: A Street Near You When searching, insert the relevant postcode and then press the Enter key. Clicking on the search icon (the magnifying glass