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Category Archives: Academia

The Second World War Military Operations Research Group needs you!

January 16, 2013by Ross Leave a comment

[Cross posted from the Second World War Military Operations Research Group] Do you specialise in the operational military history of the Second World War? Are you an academic working in […]

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Academia, Air Power History, Military History, Naval History, Research Groups, Second World War, War Studies

New Course – MA in Military History by distance learning

October 7, 2012by Ross Leave a comment

A new part-time course is due to start at the Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham in January 2013. It is an online MA that is delivered through the […]

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Academia, Air Power History, Military History, Naval History, War Studies

New Course – MA in the History of Warfare

August 26, 2012by Ross 1 Comment

A new course is due to start at the Centre for War Studies at the University of Birmingham in the History of Warfare. This is a full-time course that starts […]

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Academia, Military History, Naval History, War Studies

Brigadier Peter Young and the Evolution of War Studies in the UK

July 13, 2012by Ross Leave a comment

[Cross posted from Thoughts on Military History] It is true that the establishment of the Chichele Chair in the History of War at the University of Oxford and Sir Michael […]

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Academia, Military History, War Studies

‘Dark Tourism’ – Myth or Morbid?

May 10, 2012by Vicky 9 Comments

Last October I attended a (very good) conflict archaeology conference at Glasgow University.  One of the speakers talked about ‘dark tourism’.  If, like me, this is a concept you’ve never […]

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Academia, Conflict Archaeology, Memorialisation, War Studies

New Blogs…

May 7, 2012by Ross Leave a comment

It is always good to see new blogs from students working in the War Studies field. As I have noted elsewhere, this medium is an excellent way of engaging with […]

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Academia, Blogging, Military History, War Studies

The Problems of Writing Academic History

March 5, 2012by Ross 5 Comments

[Cross posted at Thoughts on Military History] This originally started out as a reply to James Daly’s post ‘Why we write?’, however, as it grew in length I decided to […]

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Academia, Blogging, Public History, Publishing

Call for Papers – New Research in Military History: A Conference for Postgraduate and Early-career Historians

September 3, 2011by Ross 1 Comment

This conference, organised by the British Commission for Military History in association with the History of Warfare Research Group at King’s College London, intends to highlight the breadth and depth […]

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Academia, Call for Papers, Conferences, Military History, War Studies

Military History seminars podcast at the Institute of Historical Research

July 18, 2011by Ross Leave a comment

Military History seminars podcast | Institute of Historical Research. As well as the regular seminars held at Birmingham there is another series of important semianrs that occur at the Institute […]

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Academia, Events, Podcast

Keynote Lecture…

March 23, 2011by Ross Leave a comment

We have just had the title for out keynote lecture at our forthcoming symposium on Transformation and Innovation in the British Military from 1642 to 1945 confirmed: Professor John Buckley […]

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Academia, Conferences, Events, Military History, War Studies

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