Picture of the cover of the British Journal for Military History, Volume 12, Issue 1, April 2026. Cover picture is of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Captain-General of the English forces and Master-General of the Ordnance, 1702 (c). Oil on canvas, attributed to Michael Dahl (1659 (c)-1743), 1702 (c). Property of the National Army Museum. Image out of copyright.

The new issue of the BJMH is now online at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/ As always Open Access and free to all! In this issue we have 8 articles and 2 research notes. Sadly, we have not been able to include our normal range of book reviews this time.

Online at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/ from 09.00 BST on 17 April we are Open Access and free for everyone. 3/3

from Victorian charitable support for soldiers’ families to naval operations in the Nigerian civil war via articles on Indian medical personnel in the FWW, the RAF Legal Branch, assault training before Overlord and an oral history of the WRAC we look at military history in all its diversity. 2/3

Less than 24 hours to go before the new issue of the BJMH is up online. With 8 articles and 2 research notes we cover a wide range of topics over many periods. From Frederick the Great’s views on the Duke of Marlborough (limited) to the SAS's impact in the Falklands (also limited!) and 1/3

Cover of the forthcoming issue of the BJMH showing a portrait of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.

We’re back! We are pleased to say the next issue of the BJMH will be published next week, on Friday, 17 April. It has been a long wait but we have a bumper edition with 8 excellent articles and 2 research notes. As always, Open Access and free to all at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/

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Although, as you say, sadly they're not what the OP is looking for.

Article by George Hay & John Burke of the CWGC, published this week in the British Journal for Military History bjmh.gold.ac.uk

The authors conclude by hoping that an ‘accurate and meaningful figure’ will better enable the CWGC to ‘find ways to recognise and fittingly commemorate’ those whose service has to date often been overlooked, marginalised, or diminished. 7/7

Our final article by George Hay & John Burke from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission provides a new estimate for the number of soldiers and carriers raised from across East Africa who died in British imperial service during the East Africa campaign of the FWW. 6/7

The issue is completed by a Research Note and an Article dealing with a connected subject – casualty statistics. The note by Richard Carrier focuses on the Italian Royal Army fatalities 1940-1943, noting the varied fatal dynamic of each of the 7 campaigns in which it fought. 5/7

2025 is also the 250th anniversary of the United States Army so it is fitting we have an article on the American Revolution by Robert S. Davis. This revisits the place of the British ‘Southern Strategy’ in the war, its planning, its importance and its ultimate failure. 4/7

A 3rd article, by Andrew Willett, challenges the depiction of the Indian National Army as either having played a central military role in India’s independence struggle or as an irrelevance in the fighting in Asia after 1942 & considers the impact of the British response to the perceived threat. 3/7

William Morris’s article sheds new light on British preparations for a possible invasion in 1940 while David Capps-Tunwell, David G. Passmore & Stephan Harrison look in detail at a single SAS intelligence gathering operation during the Normandy campaign in 1944. 2/7

Picture of the cover of the British Journal for Military History, Volume 11, Issue 2, August 2025. Cover picture is from the German East African Campaign. Kavirondo (BEA) porters of the 2nd Road Corps. Chikukwe Swamp, January 1918. Photo © Imperial War Museum, IWM (Q15625)

The new issue of the BJMH is now online at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/ As always Open Access and free to all! Appropriately in the 80th anniversary of VE & VJ day we have 3 articles on the SWW. 1/7

Picture of the cover of the British Journal for Military History, Volume 11, Issue 2, August 2025. Cover picture is from the German East African Campaign. Kavirondo (BEA) porters of the 2nd Road Corps. Chikukwe Swamp, January 1918. Photo © Imperial War Museum, IWM (Q15625)

A heads up for the next issue of the BJMH! To be published online next Tuesday, 26 August this is a regular issue with topics from the American Revolution to Normandy in 1944 via East Africa in the FWW. As always, Open Access and free to all at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/

Ancient historians! We're waiting...

We are delighted with the range of topics – and authors – represented. The BJMH exists to publish scholarly work on military history in the widest sense from the widest possible range of authors and this issue does just that. We hope you enjoy! 3/3

You’ll learn about subjects from the ethics of military leadership in precolonial Africa to the role played by the nascent Belgian Navy in the Second World War, via the evolution of medical statistics, the composition of FWW British Army Rum, the significance of the parajute and much more! 2/3

Picture of cover of Volume 11 Issue 1 of the BJMH.

The new issue of the BJMH is now online at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/ As always Open Access and free to all! In this issue you’ll find a range of methodologies: biographical reassessment, statistical analysis, conflict archaeology, battlefield identification, oral history. 1/3

From a biography of one of Wellington’s generals to the aftermath of the Nigerian Civil War via 200 years of British casualties & statistics and the Belgium branch of the Royal Navy we have an amazing collection of articles, notes and reviews. #History #MilitaryHistory 2/2

Front cover of Volume 11, Issue 1 of the British Journal for Military History. The cover picture shows a soldier of the 14th Army in Burma watching supplies being parachuted from a Dakota in 1945.

This coming Friday, 28 February, our first issue of 2025 will be up online. After two Special issues we have a standard issue with material showing the width and breadth of military history. Open Access and free to all at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/ please check it out!

1000 following us in a week! Many thanks everybody. If you're new to the BJMH all our back issues are freely available at journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bj...
We cover military history in the widest sense from Ancient Greece to post-war Europe - and everything in-between.

New OA article alert! @chriskempshall.bsky.social and I had far too much fun playing Isonzo (badly) and chatting about First World War history & memory in videogames, so we wrote about it for a special issue of the @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social

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Myself & @vandawilcox.bsky.social have the article: 'Killing to commemorate, dying to remember? Authenticity and the practice of memory in Isonzo' in this Special Issue. To explore how the computer game 'Isonzo' constructs history for the players. 🗃️
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Guest editors Laura Aguiar & Emma Hanna have articles from @wromantichistry.bsky.social, @wyattbeth.bsky.social, @chriskempshall.bsky.social & @vandawilcox.bsky.social , @curatorian.bsky.social , Alastair Binns, Debra Ramsay, Elspeth Vischer, Ben Hammond, Will Kitchen and Oliver Carter-Wakefield.

Front cover of Volume 10, Issue 3 of the BJMH published 8 November 2024 showing Michael Caine and Stanley Baker on the set of the 1964 film Zulu.

The new issue of the BJMH is now online at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/ Open Access and free to all this is a bumper Special Issue with 10 articles exploring aspects of war on screen - TV, cinema and video games.

It's almost here. The new issue of the BJMH will be up online by 08.00 GMT tomorrow 8 November at journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh
Don't miss it!

Wondering if anyone who follows me knows anything about tracing Japanese war dead from the Second World War. #Skystorians #WW2 #SWW

Open Access and free to all at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/ please check it out. From the Army Film & Photographic Unit of the SWW to the film Zulu via films on Northern Ireland & Midway, the games Isonzo & Spec Ops: the Line, to the IWM we have an amazing collection of articles. 2/2