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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

Polish Heritage Society UK (PHS) with the support of The Embassy of The Republic of Poland, Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum and The Polish Underground Study Trust now presents its fourth military conference. The next conference is on the:-  7th October 2017 with the title: - “The

RAF Museum 2017 Research Programme  Forthcoming Conference  Air Power in an Age of Uncertainty, A One-Day International Conference to be held at the RAF Museum London and organised in conjunction with the Air Power Studies Research Group, King’s College London at the Joint Services Co

In conjunction with the National Civil War Centre (NCWC), the British Commission for Military History (BCMH) is holding its summer conference on the theme of the British Civil Wars at the NCWC, Newark Museum, Nottinghamshire from 7 to 9 July 2017. The keynote lectures will be provided

A Special issue of the Women in War Newsletter about the memoir by Countess Maria Tarnowska.     Image: Countess Maria Tarnowska and Dr Hieronim Bartoszewski, Delegates of the Polish Red Cross, being blindfolded by German soldiers before passing through German lines to negot

I have been sent the attached slide which was recently used at a university conference in London on military history and asked to circulate it.  The slide should scotch any ideas that the sisterhood does not have a sense of humour.  After all, it cannot be a reflection of reality, can

Please see the latest Women in War Newsletter    

Volume 3, Issue 3 - EDITORIAL BJMH Vol 3 Issue 3 Welcome to issue 3 of our third volume. In this edition we take a closer look at the First World War at Sea. Working with the Journal for Maritime Research, this issue pulls together a number of papers from a conference put on by the Br

I am again grateful to Dr Harold Raugh for sending me this list of military history conferences from June  2017. Military History Conferences from 1 June 2017   From Dr Raugh as at 1 June 2017: Greetings Fellow International Military History Colleagues,   The International Commis

An article by Dick Tennant about a fundamental aspect of logistics from ancient times and still very relevant in the Napoleonic period - and beyond.... Wellington's Mules     Picture credit http://gibraltar-intro.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/1705-two-centuries-of-smuggling-la-cosa.html