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It is not my intention to convert this website into an advertising platform but I thought it worth sharing details of some Virtual Tours with you during lockdown. After all, it is unlikely that we we will be able to travel before the summer at the earliest. I first came across the con

I have received this announcement regarding a Virtual Battlefield Tour. Zoom talk with drone footage on 'The French Invasion of Britain in 1797' on Friday 5th February at 7.00pm by Patrick Mercer, OBE In 1797 Britain lay at the mercy of Revolutionary France.  In January she tried

Anthony Gray will talk on “Civilian Casualties in the 3rd French Invasion of Portugal" - Tuesday 16 February at 7:00. To register and obtain the code to join the talk please contact Ian Brewer at i_j_brewer@msn.com. In autumn 1810, the Third French Invasion of Portugal under Marshal M

https://www.smh-hq.org/smh2021/index.html The Society for Military History is pleased to call for papers for several special sessions by Young Scholars (B.A. and M.A. students) during its 87th Annual Meeting, hosted by the Joint Advanced Warfighting School in Norfolk, VA.  The goal of

The National Army Museum has kindly invited BCMH members to their next series of talks for Members and Guests of the National Army Museum (NAM). The series commenced on Thursday 17th December, 18:30 From the Sea, Freedom: The Falkland Conflict 1982.  The second talk of

BCMH Members may be interested in the work of the REHS. The first webinar in their 2021 programme on 21 January concerns Engineer Intelligence and the "Pillbox Problem" faced by the BEF in 1917. REHS 2021 WEBINAR SERIES - JANUARY 2021WHY NOT START 2021 WITH THE FIRST OF THIS YEAR

This event was originally scheduled for July 2020.​​​ The years after 1918 did not, as popular myth would have it, bring about universal peace. In fact, the ‘war to end all wars’ accomplished little of the sort. In the aftermath of the First World War, the belligerents endured years o

Please find attached the quarterly update, dated 1 January 2021, of the ICMH Forthcoming Military History Conference listing kindly compiled by Dr Harold Raugh. The purpose of this listing is to provide you with information on future international conferences for your consideration of

The RRR’s ‘Transnationalism in the Long-Nineteenth Century’ Conference Timetable is now finalised and the tickets are live! The tickets are free, and all the details for the event are included in the Eventbrite pages here: Day 1: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transnationalism-in

Frank Baldwin has drawn my attention to the podcasts on his blog at Listening Posts | The Observation Post Listening Posts are podcasts about battlefield guiding, the stories of the guides. As guides we spend a lot of time collecting stories  about the past including the audio archive

Please find attached the December 2020 issue, #34, of the International Commission of Military History Newsletter. The purpose of the ICMH Newsletter is to provide a regular and tangible means of communications between all components of the International Commission of Military History

I have been notified of Aspects of History, a new website and magazine dedicated to history and historical fiction which may be of interest to members. Aspects of History publishes and promotes established and new authors alike - and the site should be of interest