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Disgraceful Conduct: Parliamentary Regulation of Homosexuality in the British Army, 1829-1992
Get PDFThe injustices created by the historical criminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual acts between adult men in the UK are now widely recognised and in 2012 and 2017 the UK Parliament enacted legislation with the aim of righting the wrongs of the past. What has been less recognised are the historical injustices suffered by armed forces personnel who were convicted of service discipline offences for engaging in consensual same-sex sexual acts that would today be lawful. This article provides an analysis of how one service discipline offence, the offence of ‘disgraceful conduct’, was used to regulate homosexuality in the British Army. It focuses on the making and maintaining of this aspect of service law by Parliament, from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century, and examines the attitudes and intentions of the legislators who shaped it. The article explains the significance of legislation enacted in 2022 which, in acknowledgement of the discriminatory use of service discipline offences in the past, provides redress to service personnel who were convicted of such offences for conduct involving same-sex sexual activity that would be lawful today
Review: Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings, ed. by William Greenslade and Emanuela Ettorre (Cambridge: MHRA, 2020
Get PDFHubert Crackanthorpe is often found in the footnotes of books on the 1890s, which reference his short life and death by suicide at the age of twenty-six as one of the defining tragedies of the era. This collection is a timely reminder of why he was so well regarded by his supporters – and reviled by his detractors
Sustaining Britain’s First ‘Citizen Army’: the Creation and Evolution of Reinforcement Policy for Kitchener’s New Armies, 1914-1916
Get PDFExpansion of the British Army through Lord Kitchener’s New Armies has dominated the historiography of the First World War, generating a substantial amount of work on local, regional, and national recruitment. Though important, it has drawn attention away from Kitchener’s efforts to create a reinforcement system capable of sustaining it. Therefore, this article will redress this imbalance by exploring the creation and evolution of reinforcement policy for Kitchener’s New Armies between 1914 and 1916. It will demonstrate that the reinforcement system underwent a chaotic expansion and, overall, could not meet the demands of industrial warfare
Raymond A Callahan & Daniel Marston, The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army
Get PDFA liberal tries to be conscientious about teaching war in the shadow of Sir Michael Howard
Get PDFA reflection on teaching an undergraduate tutorial course that had been set up by Sir Michael Howard and the way that undergraduate teaching of matters of war and peace develops not only in line with developments in historiography but in the mirror of historical events. Professor Howard\u27s writing is useful in making sense of this
The Importance of River Valleys in the Overall Strategy of the Mercenary Companies 1357-1366
Get PDFIn the middle of the fourteenth century the Great Companies of the Hundred Years\u27 War achieved their goals by occupying bridge-towns and strategically important castles in the river valleys. In this paper, the importance of river valleys will be shown from the point of view of the mercenary companies in the border regions of the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire, based on examples gathered in archives from Lyon to Lille. The cases presented show this process from the first appearance of the mercenaries until they reached the total domination of their targeted region