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The 2nd annual conference of the European Initiative on Security Studies (EISS) will be held in Paris on 21-22 June 2018 at the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2). The EISS is a Europe-wide network of over sixty universities that share the goal of consolidating security studies in Eu

The Spanish Association of Military History (ASEHISMI) is holding its Fifth International Conference in Barcelona between 19 and 22 June 2018.   The Theme is Women at War and in the Military.   Details are on the website www.asehismi.es Contacts appear to be congreso@asehism

The Wallace Collection Mondays 29 January, 5, 12 and 19 February This four-week course taught by Curator of Arms and Armour Tobias Capwell will examine the visual, literary, and material culture of the Medieval and Renaissance knight in Europe. The knight was at once a socio-political

DEFENCE-IN-DEPTH Research from the Defence Studies Department, King's College London Digital First World War Resources: Online Official Histories — The War on Land by Dr ROBERT T. FOLEY Digital First World War Resources: Online Official Histories — The War on Land

Here is the Winter edition of Mars & Clio for 2017.  

BCMH Member Paul Barnes has instituted a series of talks, twice monthly at the Prince Consort's Library in Aldershot at 18.00.  Paul has now provided the programme for the first half of 2018:   You can read about Paul and these talks at his blog   https://thewarrantofficer.org/ &

The Sir Michael Howard Prize The Sir Michael Howard Prize launched in September 2017 and will be awarded to the author of the best article in any one volume of the British Journal for Military History (BJMH). The Prize comes with a cash award of £1000 to be paid in November 2018. Publ

  Azeem Ali took a number of pictures which are at this link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13_4Za4kjZ69airq9RzzJ2EZqN5YDF0Bd        

PUBLISHED 3rd NOVEMBER 2017 Volume 4, Issue 1 - EDITORIAL BJMH Vol 4 Issue 1 Welcome to Issue 1 of our fourth volume. Our focus in this edition is on the memories, experiences and effectiveness of soldiers in different military contexts during the 20th century. Contested memories are

The Association of Dress Historians (ADH) announces a Conference about dress in the period 1910-1920. The conference theme is: Dress and War: Clothing and Textiles at Home and Abroad during the First World War Era, 1910–1920 The First World War ended on 11 November 1918. The Associati

FIGHTERS IN A FOREIGN CONFLICT, 1848-1999 Centre for History of Sciences Po, Paris Thursday 28 June 2018 The phenomenon of people choosing to leave their own country and fight in a foreign conflict is once again on the increase, as the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria remind us. Th

The fourth Richard Holmes Memorial Lecture was held on Monday 9th October at Armoury House in London, the Headquarters of the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC).  We are most grateful to Michael Orr for making the arrangements for members of the BCMH, the Battlefields Trust and the Gu