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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Centre for War Studies Spring Day School – US Civil War to First World War Learning the Lessons
Posted in 19th Century, American Civil War, Events, First World War, Military History, War Studies, tagged American Civil War, Bob Bushaway, Day School, University of Birmingham, War Studies, World War I on February 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
British Commission for Military History’s New Research in Military History Conference – Registration Details
Posted in 18th Century, 19th Century, Air Power, Conferences, Events, First World War, Historiography, Military History, Naval History, Second World War, War Studies, tagged British Commission for Military History, Conferences, King's College London, Military History, Spenser Wilkinson, University of Birmingham, World War I, World War II on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New Research in Military History: A Conference for Postgraduate and Early-career Historians 18 November 2011 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 of research being undertaken by postgraduate and early career historians [...]
Podcasts at the IWM First World War Centenary Website
Posted in First World War, Military History, Podcast, War Studies, tagged First World War, Great War, Imperial War Museum, New Media/Web 2.0, Podcast, World War I on August 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In the build up to the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War the Imperial War Museum has launched a new website. It is part of partnership to commemorate the events. As the site states: 2014-2018 marks 100 years since First World War. This was not only a pivotal time in world history [...]
TOC – War in History, Vol. 18, No. 2
Posted in Journals, Military History, War Studies, tagged Africa, Journals, Ottoman Empire, Table of Contents, Twentieth Century, War in History, Wars and Conflicts, World War I, World War II on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few interesting articles in the latest issue of War in History. Robert Watt, ‘Apaches Without and Enemies Within: The US Army in New Mexico, 1879—1881′ When attempting to confront hostile Apache guerrillas in New Mexico between 1879 and 1881, the US Army encountered a style of warfare which took merciless advantage of its weaknesses. [...]
War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham
Posted in Events, First World War, Military History, War Studies, tagged Pierre Pursiegle, University of Birmingham, Volunteer Training Corps, World War I on March 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Next weeks War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham is as follows: Pierre Pursiegle (Director of the Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham) Redundancy in Wartime Mobilization: The Case of the Volunteer Training Corps, 1914-1918 The event will be on 8 March. The Seminar meets on TUESDAYS at 5.30 p.m. in [...]
The War You Don’t See
Posted in First World War, Military History, Public History, Second World War, War on Terror, tagged Iraq, ITV, John Pilger, Julian Assange, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), War on Terror, Wikileaks, World War I on December 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday ITV aired the iconoclastic journalist John Pilger‘s documentary titled ‘The War You Don’t See’. Over 90 minutes he set about revealing the Machiavellian ‘truth’ behind the headlines and strongly criticised the media for kow-towing to the propagandist line fed to them by the government and military. The result was not only a gross misapplication [...]
New Research in Military History
Posted in Conferences, Events, Military History, Research, War Studies, tagged Academia, American Civil War, British Army, English Civil War, Events, War Studies, Wars and Conflicts, World War I, World War II on October 17, 2010 | 5 Comments »
[Cross posted at Thoughts on Military History] Conference for Postgraduate and Early-career Historians University of Sussex, Friday 19th November 2010 This conference, a collaboration between the British Commission for Military History, the Centre for War, Representation and Society, University of Sussex and the History of Warfare Research Group, Department of War Studies, King’s College London, [...]
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