National Army Museum (NAM) talks and virtual tours. NAM has invited BCMH Members to join NAM Members for these talks. To enquire about membership of NAM please contact Helen Chalmers at hchalmers@nam.ac.uk In this series on the 80th anniversary of the invasion, historian Glyn Dr Pryso

Students of the Normandy Campaign may be interested in Dr Seb Ritchie's latest researches into Operation Goodwood. His lecture to the Royal Artillery Historical Society (RAHS) given on 28 April 2021 may be accessed on YouTube at this link  Dr Seb Ritchie – The Guns of Cagny 1944

Please see the latest issue of the BJMH published on 18 March 2021. There is a wide variety of articles - something for everyone! Vol 7 No 1 (2020) | British Journal for Military History (gold.ac.uk) This download will take you to the complete issue whilst the URL above will enable yo

I have included a brief mention of this book because it will make a superb Christmas present for anyone who served in BAOR during the Cold War. John Russell gives us a detailed, exciting and beautifully mapped and photographed account of the battles fought by the British 2nd Army betw

Imperial War Museums are re-opening. https://www.iwm.org.uk/

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

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

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

Event at The Keep, Brighton, 19 October 2019. War from the inside: Oral histories from the BBC Join us to explore rare recordings from the BBC’s vaults and the stories they tell about how our national broadcaster has reported war and helped us live through it. Eighty years ago, on 3 S