Military Life & Institutions

Over a million Indian soldiers fought in the First World War, the largest force from the colonies and dominions. Their contribution, however, has b...

Tommy Atkins has been the nickname given to soldiers of the British Army since the eighteenth century. The origin of the name is shrouded in myster...

Almost a century has passed since the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918. Of all the soldiers who went through that hell on earth, photog...

Almost a century has passed since the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918. Of all the soldiers who went through that hell on earth, photog...

The Second World War saw many people consigned to long periods of exile, far from home. How did the exiled keep in touch with home? Why were some e...

More than a century has passed past since German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the treasures of Bronze Age Mycenae. The richly decora...

A fascinating trawl through a very personal history. - Irish GazetteA stirring story of Easter Week that has gone untold until now. - Irish Voice I...

In 1945 it was announced that Allied airmen who had taken part in the Battle of Britain in 1940 would be entitled to the immediate award of the 193...

Hundreds of thousands of military members are making the transition to civilian life each year. This transition is a move into unfamiliar territory...

The East of England, particularly Suffolk, became a new home for thousands of American airmen during the Second World War. After starting to arrive...

For hundreds of years, the Scottish soldier has been recording his experiences. From the War of the Spanish Succession until the deployment of regi...

During the Second World War, thousands of American servicemen were uprooted from the US and deposited in rural England and immediately thrust uncer...

The Call Up or National Service existed in Britain from 1947 until the 1960s. It was the only time that young men were expected to serve in the Arm...

Just out of high school in 1977, her personal life already a mess, Tracy Crow thought the Marines might straighten her out. And sure enough, in the...

Imagine Wayne Rooney, Andy Murray and Mo Farah exchanging the glamour of their careers for the brutality and bloodshed of war - and quietly giving ...

Glimpsing Modernity is a collection of papers presented at the US Army Medical Museum-sponsored conference on medical aspects of the First World Wa...

A TLS and a Prospect Book of the Year A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first ce...

In the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, recent technological developments in music listening enabled troops to carry with them vast amounts of music a...