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Weblinks updated on 14 June 2020! 205 years ago, an estimated 60,000 men from across Europe died in a battle which came to define the Nineteenth century: Waterloo. Commemorations for the 205th anniversary of Waterloo have, for obvious reasons, been cancelled. The podcast ‘The Napoleon

Deadline 10 July 2020 AskHistorians https://www.askhistorians.com/ is a carefully moderated public history forum where the public asks questions, and where historians provide answers. Situated on the popular social media site Reddit, and bringing in over 1,500,000 monthly visitors fro

The School of Security Studies, King’s College London, held its first ever research conference last week, bringing together academics and PhD students from across the Defence Studies and War Studies Departments to present 15 panel events on the theme of global shocks. Due to the curre

This issue was published on 19 March 2020 at http://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/issue/view/108 This download will take you to the complete issue whilst the URL above will enable you also to select individual articles and reviews. The next issue will be published in mid-July and another in Novembe

Marco Wyss has issued another invitation to an online event. Centre for War and Diplomacy-Ruskin Killing at a Distance Seminar Series: Dr Patrick Brugh (Johns Hopkins University) "Call yourselves 'cannonry' instead of 'chivalry'": Aesthetic Dissonance and Gender Trouble in the Age of

Via some recent correspondence with Geoffrey Vesey Holt I recently came across the website http://www.fleeinghitler.org/ set up by Professor Hanna Diamond. It concerns life in occupied Europe in the Second World War I was introduced to the website by the story written up later in life

Some of you may know that the National Army Museum (NAM) recently reorganised its Society of Friends and has produced a new magazine, Muster, for them. The first issue takes the restoration of the Indian Army Memorial Room at Sandhurst as a key feature. Military history in Britain has

I am grateful to Will Bennett for providing some historical context around Captain, now Colonel, Tom Moore of the Duke of Wellington's Regt, famous for his exploits as a fundraiser with his walking frame. https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/captain-tom-moore-war-what-history-veteran-ww2-nhs-f

It is clear from telephone conversations and correspondence that many of you are very busy during the lockdown. John Spencer, the editor of Mars & Clio would love to hear from you. How have you managed to teach your students when you cannot meet them face to face? If you are study

One of the plus points of the lockdown is that we perhaps have a little more time to read.  At present I am much enjoying Bob Lynam's Slim, Master of War: Burma and the Birth of Modern Warfare, 2005.  Any work on Slim will draw on his Defeat Into Victory and as I r

Marco Wyss has forwarded me details of how to join this online seminar on 20 May 2020 which anyone may attend. Dear All, I hope this finds you and all your loved ones safe and well. The CWD has the pleasure to invite you to a fascinating online research seminar, in which Dr Daniela Oz

I strongly recommend these three Battle for the Rhineland films, whether you intend to join the tour or simply learn about Operation VERITABLE. They are not 1940's newsreels as I had thought but were produced by the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in the 1980's. Member Peter Knox of