Using Google Scholar Alerts as a Research Tool
Historians, and most academics for that matter, can be very parochial. We tend to look in the same sources for information. We tend to look down our own silos. For […]
Category Archives: Research
Military History at the Operational Level: An Interview with Robert M. Citino
[Cross posted from The Second World War Military Operations Research Group] The June 2011 edition of the American journal of Historically Speaking has an interesting interview with Professor Robert M. […]
The Second World War Military Operations Research Group needs you!
Do you specialise in the operational military history of the Second World War? Are you an academic working in a university, museum, archive, or related field? Are you a PhD […]
Introducing the Second World War Operations Group
[Cross posted from The Second World War Operations Research Group] I recently began the process of forming a research group dedicated to the study of operational military history of the […]
Your Thesis…It’s Alive!
[Cross-posted at Birmingham "On War"] This is a post that I have been meaning to write for a while, well since April if I am honest. However, for reasons that […]
The Air Force List as a Historical Source
Here is a section of my introduction that discusses the utility of The Air Force List as a historical source. It is linked in places to concepts that are discussed […]
Leigh-Mallory, Liddell Hart, and the Conundrum of the Geneva Disarmament Conference
As Edward Fox said when depicting Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks in A Bridge Too Far, “this is a story you will tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they’ll be!” Seriously, […]
The Influence of Trenchard on the RAF’s Official Statements on Air Power
It is clear that Marshal of the Royal Air Force Viscount Trenchard played a vital role in the preservation of the RAF as an independent service. However, he also played […]
New Facebook Page
I have created a Facebook page here for the blog. I decided that I needed a presence on Facebook if I am going to make my historical research service work. […]
Historian for Hire!
Do you need research undertaking? Working on a project but don’t have enough time to get to the archives? Then you have come to the right place. I can help […]
