New open access Journal 'British Journal for Military History

[Andy H]

Hi

I'm pleased to announce that the above titled Journal will be an Open access publication (aka Free)

As the Home Page blurb states:-

The BJMH is a pioneering Open Access, peer-reviewed journal that brings high quality scholarship in military history to an audience beyond academia.

http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/index

Issue 1 Contents
http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/issue/view/1

Let's hope it's around for many a decade and that it is but a flag bearer for other such open access Journals

Regards

Andy H

[Gorque]

That's great news! Thanks for sharing this with us.

[Andy H]

Hi

Issue 2 is now available, its theme being historical counter-insurgency actions/practices undertaken by the French, British, Italian and Dutch.

Articles
Introduction: Case Studies in Colonial Counter-Insurgency
Bruce Collins

French Colonial Counter-Insurgency: General Bugeaud and the Conquest of Algeria, 1840-47
Marie-Cecile Thoral

Counter-Insurgency in the Bombay Presidency during the Mutiny-Rebellion, 1857
Bruce Collins

Colonial Soldiers in Italian Counter-Insurgency Operations in Libya, 1922-32
Nir Arielli

The Civil and Military Dimensions of Dutch Counter-Insurgency on Java, 1947-49
Thijs Brocades Zaalberg

British Intelligence and the Origins of the EOKA Insurgency
David French

Why Military Interventions Fail: An Historical Overview
Geraint Hughes

all available here:- http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/issue/view/2

Regards

Andy H

[Andy H]

Hi

Volume 3 of the British Journal of Military History is available for free here:-
http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/issue/view/3

and it contains these articles:-

‘Moving forward in the old style’: Revisiting Wellington’s Greatest Battles from Assaye to Waterloo
by Huw J. Davies

British Soldiers in Spain during the Peninsular War, 1808-1814: Expectations vs Realities
by Jacob Kneen

Incorrigible Rogues: The Brutalisation of British Soldiers in the Peninsular War 1808-1814
by Alice Parker

From Cintra to Salamanca: Shifting popular perceptions of the war in the Iberian Peninsula, 1808-1812
by Zack White

Bullets, Baggages and Ballads Revisited: Forgotten Sources for the Experience of British Women in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Revised and Expanded
by Charles J. Esdaile

Debate: Was Napoleon Great?
by Andrew Roberts & Charles J. Esdaile

Napoleon’s Obsession – the Invasion of England
by Nick Lipscombe

Who Won at Waterloo? Rühle von Lilienstern, Jomini, Clausewitz, and the Decisive Battle
by Beatrice Heuser

I hope some of them are of interest and that stir debate & discussion

Regards

Andy H

[Kevinmeath]

Just read a couple of articles and they seem good

[Andy H]

and the latest:-
http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/issue/view/4

Technological Determinisms of Victory at the Battle of Agincourt
by Kelly DeVries

Europe’s Earliest Kriegsspiel? Book Seven of Reinhard Graf zu Solms’ Kriegsregierung and the ‘Prehistory’ of Professional War Gaming
by Jorit Wintjes

British Military Recruitment in Ireland during the Crimean War, 1854-56
by Paul Huddie

Qualified, but unprepared: Training for War at the Staff College in the 1930s
by Edward Smalley

Re-discovering the Operational Level: Army Co- operation Command and Tactical Air Power Development in Britain, 1940-43
by Matthew Powell

The Search for Answers on the Missing in the Great War: Lt Hugh Henshall Williamson and His Parents’ Struggle with Officialdom, 1916-2001
by Michael Durey

Tanks in the ‘Hundred Days’ 1918 - A Diminishing Resource
by Roger Blaber

Regards

Andy H

[Andy H]

and the latest:-

http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/issue/view/5

contains these PDF articles:-

Introduction - Going to War: Europe and the Wider World, 1914- 1915
by James E. Kitchen

Modern War and Aesthetic Mobilisation: Looking at Europe in 1914
by Alisa Miller

Logistics and the BEF: the development of waterborne transport on the Western Front, 1914-1916 by Chris Phillips

The Russian Army and the Conduct of Operations in 1914
by Stephen Walsh

Seed Corn of a Future Army: The Mobilisation of the Poles and the Creation of Polish Military Formations in the First World War by Paul Latawski

“I Shall Die Arms in Hand, Wearing the Warriors’ Clothes”: Mobilisation and Initial Operations of the Indian Army in France and Flanders by Rob Johnson

War, Mobilisation and Colonial Crisis in Northern Rhodesia, 1914-1916 by Edmund Yorke

A Life in the Trenches? The Use of Operation War Diary and Crowdsourcing Methods to Provide an Understanding of the British Army’s Day-to-Day Life on the Western Front by Richard Grayson

Regards

Andy H

[Andy H]

Hi

The latest issue is out

Table of Contents
Articles
General Ferdinand Foch and the French Contribution to the Battle of the Somme by Elizabeth Greenhalgh

When the Learning Curve Falls: The Ordeal of the 44th Battalion, 25 October 1916 by William Stewart

Hubert Gough, the Anzacs and the Somme: A Descent into Pointlessness by
Meleah Hampton

On Maps and Manoeuvres: The Challenge of Mapping Waterloo by Kenton White

William Siborne’s New Waterloo Model by Philip Abbott

The Genesis of Clausewitz's On War Reconsidered by Paul Donker

http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/issue/view/6

Regards

Andy H

[Drusus Nero]

All I can say to this is "Thumbs up"

Lots of great reading and scholarly research. Terrific!

[BELGRAVE]

Brilliant !! Thank you.

[Andy H]

Hi

There have been two further issues since I last posted on this forum:-

Articles
In Praise of General Stanhope: Reputation, Public Opinion and the Battle of Almenar, 1710-1733 Stewart Tolley

Constructing the Enemy Within: Rumours of Secret Gun Platforms and Zeppelin Bases in Britain, August- October 1914 by Brett Holman


The Handy Man of the Division: Assessing the effectiveness of the pioneer battalion concept in the First Australian Imperial Force by William Westerman

The Junior OTC: Playing at Soldiers or Nation in Arms? by Timothy Halstead

The Psychological Impact of Airborne Warfare & the British Response to the Airborne Threat by Tim Jenkins

Renegades in Malaya: Indian volunteers of the Japanese, F. Kikan
Kevin Noles

Flawed, yet Authoritative? Organisational memory and the future of official military history after Chilcot by Andrew Hoskins, Matthew Ford

http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/issue/view/8

and

Articles
Foreword: the First World War at Sea by Andrew Lambert

Building a Navy ‘Second to None’: The U.S. Naval Act of 1916, American Attitudes Toward Great Britain, and the First World War by Eugene Edward Beiriger

British Destroyers at Jutland: Torpedo Tactics in Theory and Action by
John Brooks

Evasion or Enforcement – the complexity of the Blockade revisited: The bona fides of the Lavino Company across three continents in 1916 by
Stephen W.A. Cobb

‘Had we used the Navy’s bare fist instead of its gloved hand...’ - The Absence of Coastal Assault Vessels in the Royal Navy by 1914
Howard J. Fuller

Franco-British Naval Cooperation at the Dardanelles, 1914-1916, new friends, old enemies, eternal rivals? by Christopher Martin, Jean De Préneuf, Thomas Vaisset

http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/issue/view/9

Regards and enjoy

Andy H

[Andy H]

Hi

The next issue of this fantastic open access journal is now available to read.

This issues contents are:-


Contested Memories: Revisiting the Battle of Mount Street Bridge, 1916
Brian Hughes, Billy Campbell, Susan Schreibman

Shaping British and Anzac Soldiers’ Experience of Gallipoli: Environmental and Medical Factors, and the Development of Trench Warfare
Gary Sheffield

Why did 51st Highland Division Fail? A case-study in command and combat effectiveness
Anthony King

“Flexible Enough to Adapt”: British Airborne Forces’ Experience during Post Conflict Operations 1944- 1946
John Greenacre

‘Amateurs Who Play in League Division One’? Anglo- Iranian Military Relations During the Dhofar War in Oman
Geraint Hughes
http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/issue/view/10

Regards

Andy

[Andy H]

Hi
Always a bit behind posting these updates

Table of Contents
Articles
Introduction - The Cavalry of the Clouds? New Research in the Development and Experience of Air Power in the British Empire during the First World War by Ross Mahoney, Michael Molkentin

Learning to Fly: The Royal Flying Corps and the Development of Air Power
by David Jordan

The Royal Naval Air Service and Anti-Submarine Warfare in the North Sea, 1917 – 1918 by Alexander Howlett

Bloody April Revisited: The Royal Flying Corps at the Battle of Arras, 1917
by Mike Bechthold

The Dominion of the Air: the Imperial dimension of Britain’s war in the air, 1914-1918 by Michael Molkentin

‘Say it with Music’: Combat, Courage and Identity in the Songs of the RFC/RAF, 1914-1918 by Emma Hanna

The Nervous Flyer: Nerves, Flying and the First World War
by Lynsey Shaw Cobden

Trenchard’s Doctrine: Organisational Culture, the ‘Air Force spirit’ and the Foundation of the Royal Air Force in the Interwar Years by Ross Mahony

http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/issue/view/11

Regards

Andy H