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Thursday 18th and Friday 19th June 2020 Deadline 1st April 2020 King’s College London and the University of Oxford invites early career researchers and postgraduates of any discipline to the 2020 History of War Conference, organised by the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of

Helion and Company are proud to announce a Century of the Soldier conference dedicated the British Civil Wars and how they were fought. The conference is being held jointly with University Centre Shrewsbury and is being generously supported by the Pike and Shot Society and the British

The attached advertisement may be of interest to BCMH members, members who teach at UK universities or who may have students who might be interested.   Deadline for applications: 21 February 2020 The successful applicant will work on a project to consider the social history of Preston

The Merriman  prize is awarded for an outstanding undergraduate essay on any topic in the fields of international and/or military history from the ancient world to the present day. Offered by the Department of History at Lancaster University, it is open to current undergraduates at an

Saturday 28th March 2020 Helion and Company’s ‘From Retinue to Regiment’ book series warmly invites you to our first Battlefield Study Day. The first half of the day will be spent with War of the Roses specialist Mike Ingram, who has written extensively on Richard III and Bosworth, an

Please see the Women in War Newsletter for December 2019.

Dr Harold Raugh, from the British Commission has resumed his initiative to provide information about forthcoming Military History Congresses. The ICMH would like to thank him very much for this important and substantial effort. Please find attached the first quarterly listing with fif

Please see the announcement below regarding a fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Lancaster. Deadline 29th February 2020. https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BXK260/fully-funded-phd-scholarship-in-history-the-europeanisation-of-british-defence-procurement-in-the-cold-war-the-raf-

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

Professor Sir Michael Howard, 1922-2019 It is with sadness that I have to report the death, aged 97, of Professor Sir Michael Howard, a long-standing and in later years honorary member of the British Commission for Military History. Sir Michael was the foremost military historian of t

Richard Grayson writes: I am very pleased to say that the latest issue of the BJMH has just been published and is available at: http://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/issue/view/105.  This is a special issue on 'Transforming War, 1914-18'.  It has been edited by William Philpott.  We had expected to

A one day Conference, Warfare in Antiquity: Perceptions, Realties and Reception in the 21st Century is to be held at King's College London, Strand Campus on Saturday 23 November 2019, 09:00 to 17:30. Booking details (the event is free) are at the link below: Booking details 9.00am Reg