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Friends of the British Cemetery, Elvas   The small British Cemetery at Elvas in Portugal is the only cemetery with graves of British soldiers who died on the Iberian Peninsula during the Peninsular War. The Friends is a charity established to preserve the Cemetery and houses memo

Mortality, medical care and military welfare in the British Civil Wars David Appleby, Andrew Hopper, Manchester University Press, 1 Sep 2018 Members may be interested in this work especially if they attended our Summer Conference Russet coated Soldiers in Newark in July 2017. Andy Hop

We have received the following announcement from the Pike & Shot Society regarding an essay prize in which members may be interested. BILL BRAHAM MEMORIAL ESSAY - 2019 The annual Bill Braham Memorial Essay Writing Competition is run by the Pike and Shot Society in conjunction with

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!

Falklands/Malvinas: War, Media and Society- History and Legacy’  University of Manchester 25/26 April 2019 Report by Andy Grainger, BCMH This Conference was organised by BCMH member Alex Clarke of Kings, assisted by Louise Clare. BCMH sponsorship enabled the event to run for two days

A one day conference about the legacies of the Great War was held at the National Army Museum on Saturday 6 July. BCMH, Western Front Association (WFA) and the National Army Museum (NAM) had collaborated to launch it.    Justin Maciejeski, Director of the NAM, welcomed us to the Museu

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

Zorndorf 1758: Prussian War-making at the Mid-Point of the Seven Years’ War by Adam Storring In the last update I referred to Adam Storring winning the ICMH Corvisier Prize in 2019 and the paper he delivered to our Summer Conference in 2013.  The paper appeared in Mars & Clio No.3

NEW PUBLICATION Military Aspects of Geology: Fortification, Excavation and Terrain Evaluation Product Code: SP473 Series: GSL Special Publications Author/Editor: Edited by E. P. F. Rose, J. Ehlen and U. L. Lawrence Publication Date: 15 January 2019 Add a review Description This book c

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

Please see the open invitation attached below and contact Frank Baldwin frank@frankbaldwin.co.uk if you would like to participate in the Project. Invitation      EUROPE REMEMBERS 75 https://europeremembers.com/ The  primary objective of Europe Remembers is to make the final phase of t

Deadline: 15 June 2019 This document as a pdf      French Defense Historical Service, the Research Center of Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan French Officers Academy (CREC Saint-Cyr), Utrecht University and the Mixed Research Unit Sirice (Sorbonne-Identités, relations internationales et civilisat