Centre for War Studies Summer Day School – The Military Lessons of the Great War 1918-40

Centre for War Studies Public Programme The Summer Day School Saturday, 23 June 2012 The Military Lessons of the Great War 1918-40 The final years of the Great War saw a radical change in the conduct of warfare. This Day School will examine how well the lessons of the Western Front were learnt over the [...]

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New Blogs…

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 like-minded individuals. This time around, we have two new blogs from the opposite end of the academic spectrum. First up we have a blog from [...]

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US Civil War to First World War: Learning the Lessons – Part 2

Here is the second part of the recent Day School at the Centre for War Studies that examined the links between the American Civil War and the First  World War. ‘A Veritable Rain of Bullets’: Firepower in the American Civil War and the First World War (Dr Spencer Jones, University of Birmingham) Spencer Jones delivered [...]

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Call for Papers – Revisiting Churchill’s Army: New Directions in the Study of the British Army in the Second World War

Revisiting Churchill’s Army: New Directions in the Study of the British Army in the Second World War A Symposium to be held at the Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham Friday 14 September 2012 1942 saw the British Army at its worst and at its best, with triumph at El Alamein following close upon [...]

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30th Edition of the Military History Carnival

The 30th Edition of the Military History Carnival has been posted at Cliopatria.

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Centre for War Studies Spring Day School – US Civil War to First World War Learning the Lessons

War Studies Public Programm The Spring Day School Saturday, 3 March 2012 US Civil War to First World War: Learning the Lessons It is axiomatic in American historiography that the US civil war was the first modern war and that Europe failed to learn the lessons of industrialised conflict and firepower. There are clear parallels [...]

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Book Review – Playing the Game: The British Junior Infantry Officer on the Western Front 1914-18

Christopher Moore-Bick, Playing the Game: The British Junior Infantry Officer on the Western Front 1914-18. Solihull: Helion & Company Ltd. 2011. viii, 327 pp. £25.00 (Cloth) Reviewed by Andrew Duncan, PhD Candidate, Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham Christopher Moore-Bick studied at Cambridge and now works for the Ministry of Defence. Playing the Game [...]

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Perspectives in Military History Lecture Series at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center

The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC). In my quest to find more online resources such as podcasts (see here and here) I have come accross the US Army Heritage and Education Center’s Perspectives in Military History Lecture Series. These have been placed online and cover a wide variety of subjects. As the blurb [...]

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Military History seminars podcast at the Institute of Historical Research

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 of Historical Research. If you can not get to them they have started to record them for podcasting. Click the link above and you will [...]

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Why didn’t France fight on against the Sixth Coalition after the Battle of Waterloo?

As this is my first post I thought it best to write something relating to the period in which my research is focused; this being the age of horse and musket. The question I wish to pose relates to the Waterloo campaign in early June 1815, namely why did French resistance to the Sixth Coalition [...]

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