Many congratulations Jonathan!

Indeed! And don't get me started on 'may' and 'might'...

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

Dekolonial Erinnern: Online-Rechercheleitfäden des Bundesarchivs zu deutschen Kolonialtruppen.
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Thanks Jonathan!

Thanks Aimée!

Hurray! The paperback edition of my book ‘Holding Out’ has just been published. It’s flying off the shelves, so don’t delay, buy today!

Hastings 'Pug' Ismay spent the whole of the First World War, and longer, in Somaliland - there's a lot of detail in John Kiszely's fine biography of him.

Leo Amery and his amazing networks
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In an alternate universe the chief representative of the only major German company operating in Micronesia in the late nineteenth century did not keep his diary in fading lead pencil but in an easy to decipher format.

Includes a review by me of John Kiszely's excellent biography of General Hastings 'Pug' Ismay.

I support the decision by the IWM not to renew the 15-yr loan of the Ashcroft Victoria Cross collection. The taxpayer has indemnified & funded the costs of security & exhibition of his investment in a prestigious national museum, increasing its value & probably recouping his £5 million. 1/