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

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

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

Virgilio Ilari has written from Italy to tell us about the interdisciplinary journal of the Italian Society of Military History (SISM), entitled Nuova Antologia Militare (NAM), a peer review and open access journal (www.nam-sism.org ; see board here: https://www.nam-sism.org/1.3%20dir

Those who attended the AGM will have heard Justin Maciejewski, the Director of the National Army Museum (NAM), encourage BCMH members to attend the Festival and indeed, in the future, to speak at it. The website is here https://www.chelseahistoryfestival.com/ A note of the 2019 event

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

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