Jul 6, 2016 | BJMH, BJMH Extract, WW1 Centenary
Volume 2, Issue 3 – EDITORIAL Time to don your tin hats! Here comes the First World War centenary… again! 1 July 2016 will mark 100 years since the opening of the Battle of the Somme. Amidst the many questions that will be asked of the conduct, bloodshed, and...
Feb 20, 2016 | BJMH, BJMH Extract, BJMH Paper, WW1 Centenary
Volume 2, Issue 2 – EDITORIAL ‘A pretty deplorable piece of work’ So said Michael Howard in his review of Alan Clark’s The Donkeys way back in 1961. Since then, of course, revisionist histories of the First World War have become the mainstream, shaping the work...
Jan 17, 2016 | BJMH, BJMH Extract
Volume 2, Issue 1 – EDITORIAL Welcome to the first issue of volume 2. This issue is topped and tailed with discussions of arms and armour: plate armour at Agincourt and tank armour in the First World War! This reflects the fact that in and between the First...
Dec 4, 2015 | WW1 Centenary
Conference on Urban Experiences of the Great War, Lviv, Ukraine 23 to 25 June 2016