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The Battlefields Trust is pleased to announce that the 2018 Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Peter Gaunt, well known specialist in the mid –17th century, and author or editor of 15 books concerned with aspects of the civil war in Wales, England, and Britain as a whole.

The Dark Side of the Belle Époque. Political violence and Armed Associations in Europe before the First World War — PREWArAs’ The research project “The Dark Side of the Belle Époque. Political Violence and Armed Associations in Europe before the First World War” is a comparative histo

Members may be interested in two conferences run by Helion Publishing taking place on 15 and 22 September 2018:   Saturday 15 September in Leicester England Turned Germany:  Programme and Booking info      Saturday 22 September at Royal Armouries, Leeds Victorian Warfare:  P

NOTE: CHANGE OF CONFERENCE VENUE: The British Commission for Military History (BCMH) and the Western Front Association (WFA) are organizing a two day conference on the final campaigns of the First World War  to be held at the Army & Navy Club, (known colloquially as The Rag), 36-3

The 9th New Researchers' conference organised by the British Commission for Military History will be held at the University of Southampton on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 November 2018. Its purpose is to bring together current research by postgraduate and early career scholars in the fie

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Marking the 100 years since the end of World War One, Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One looks at how artists responded to the physical and psychological scars left on Europe. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/aftermath Art was used in many ways in the

This is a comprehensive treatment of the subject by Dick Tennant looking at the cartography of French, Portuguese and British cartographers.   Maps in the Peninsular War   

National Army Museum events Summer 2018  

The Malvern Military History Festival will take place on the weekend of October 5th-7th 2018 in Malvern, Worcestershire. The Festival will be held in the grounds of Severn End, Hanley Castle. The organisers have kindly offered BCMH members a 10% discount on all tickets - they just nee

Please see the latest Women in War Newsletter which concerns a Conference in the USA about the Churchill family.  

Registration for “The Thirty Years War – 400 years on” is now open! See below for details, and you can access the full programme here Clifton Campus Map and Travel details      The Centre for Teaching and Learning is Building 12.   Professor Martyn Bennett of the Department of Hi