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British Journal for Military History @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The next issue of the BJMH will be up online on Thursday. One of our Special themed issues. Guest edited by Dr Christian O'Connell we look at 'America and the Second World War 80 Years On', focused on the experiences of a range of marginalised groups during and after the SWW.

Cover of Volume 12 Issue 2 of the BJMH featuring a photograph of jubilant women celebrating VJ day in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The central figure holds up a newspaper with the banner headline "WAR ENDS".

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British Journal for Military History @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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.

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.

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British Journal for Military History @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

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

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British Journal for Military History @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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/

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

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British Journal for Military History @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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)

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British Journal for Military History @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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/

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British Journal for Military History @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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!

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.

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British Journal for Military History @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

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.

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.

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Alasdair Urquhart @alasdairu.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Using a restaurant, tell us where you went to college

Black & white picture of the Plaza Cafe Upper Brook St, Manchester

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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!

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Alasdair Urquhart @alasdairu.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

An excellent threat on the other admiral!

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

THREAD. Here’s a fun game for a rainy day based on the proposition: where 1 line in the landscape is crossed by another, then the one being crossed is the older of the 2. Eg the M11 in Cambs. built 1975-80 cuts rectangular fields of Parliamentary enclosure c1803 into triangles+

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Alasdair Urquhart @alasdairu.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Well here I am! Wonder who else has made a run for it?

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