The Army Records Society is a

text publication society A text publication society is a learned society which publishes (either as its sole function, or as a principal function) scholarly editions of old works of historical or literary interest, or archival documents. In addition to full texts, a text p ...

for the history of the

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

. The society was established in 1984 and is a registered charity. To date (October 2022) the society has issued 41 volumes of material.

Selected publications

18th Century volumes

* ''An Eighteenth-Century Secretary at War: The Papers of William, Viscount Barrington'' (ed. Dr Tony Hayter, 1988) vol. 4 * ''Colonel Samuel Bagshawe and the Army of King George II, 1731-1762'' (ed. Dr Alan J. Guy, 1990) vol. 6 * ''John Peebles’ American War, 1776-1782'' (ed. Professor Ira D. Gruber, 1998) vol. 13 * ''The Journal of Corporal William Todd, 1745-1762'' (eds. Andrew Cormack & Alan Jones, 2001) vol. 18 * '' Amherst and the Conquest of Canada'' (ed. Dr Richard Middleton, 2003) vol. 20 * ''The Duke of Cumberland's Campaigns in Britain and the Low Countries, 1745-1748: A Selection of His Letters'' (eds. Alastair Massie & Jonathan Oates, 2018) vol. 38

19th Century volumes

* ''The

Napoleonic War The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

Journal of Captain Thomas Henry Browne, 1807-1816'' (ed. Professor Roger Norman Buckley, 1987) vol. 3 * ''Roberts in India: The Military Papers of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1876-1893'' (ed. Brian Robson, 1993) vol. 9 * '' Lord Chelmsford’s Zululand

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, 1878-1879'' (ed. Professor

John Laband John Paul Clow Laband (born 18 March 1947 in Johannesburg) is a South African historian and writer, specialising in Anglo-Zulu and Boers wars. He has taught at universities in South Africa, England and Canada. In particular he has been Professo ...

, 1994) vol. 10 * ''Letters of a Victorian Army Officer: Edward Wellesley, 1840-1854'' (ed. Field Marshal

Michael Carver Field Marshal Richard Michael Power Carver, Baron Carver, (24 April 1915 – 9 December 2001) was a senior British Army officer. Lord Carver served as the Chief of the General Staff (CGS), the professional head of the British Army, and then as t ...

, 1995) vol. 11 * ''The Maratha War Papers of Arthur Wellesley, January to December 1803'' (ed. Anthony S. Bennell, 1998) vol. 14 * '' Sir Hugh Rose and the Central India Campaign, 1858'' (ed. Brian Robson, 2000) vol. 16 * ''At Wellington’s Right Hand: The Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel

Sir Alexander Gordon Alexander Gordon may refer to: * Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly (died 1470), Scottish magnate * Alexander Gordon (bishop of Aberdeen) (died 1518), Precentor of Moray and Bishop-elect of Aberdeen * Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly (died 15 ...

, 1808-1815'' (ed. Dr Rory Muir, 2003) vol. 21 * ''Romaine’s

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...

: The Letters and Journal of William Govett Romaine 1854-6'' (ed. Major Colin Robins OBE, 2005) vol. 24 * ''Wolseley and Ashanti: The Asante War Journal and Correspondence of Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley 1873-1874'' (ed. Professor Ian F. W. Beckett, 2009) vol. 28 * ''Crimean Cavalry Letters'' (ed. Glenn Fisher, 2011) vol. 31

20th Century volumes

* ''The Military Correspondence of Field Marshal

Sir Henry Wilson Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician. Wilson served as Commandant of the S ...

, 1918-1922'' (ed. Dr

Keith Jeffery Keith John Jeffery MRIA (11 January 1952 – 12 February 2016) was a Northern Irish historian specialising in modern British, British Imperial, and Irish history. Early life He attended Methodist College Belfast, where his father was vic ...

, 1985) vol. 1 * ''The Army and the

Curragh Incident The Curragh incident of 20 March 1914, sometimes known as the Curragh mutiny, occurred in the Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland. The Curragh Camp was then the main base for the British Army in Ireland, which at the time still formed part of the ...

, 1914'' (ed. Professor Ian F. W. Beckett, 1986) vol. 2 * ''The Military Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, December 1915-February 1918'' (ed. Professor David Woodward, 1989) vol. 5 * '' Montgomery and the Eighth Army: A Selection from the Diaries, Correspondence and other Papers of Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein'' (ed. Stephen Brooks, 1991) vol. 7 * ''The British Army and

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during the First World War'' (ed. Dr John Ferris, 1992) vol. 8 * ''The Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel

Charles à Court Repington Charles à Court Repington, , (29 January 1858 – 25 May 1925), known until 1903 as Charles à Court, was an English soldier, who went on to have a second career as an influential war correspondent during the First World War. He is also credited ...

CMG, Military Correspondent of The Times, 1903-1918'' (ed. Professor

A. J. A. Morris Andrew James Anthony Morris (born 1936) is a historian. He was educated at the London School of Economics and in 1974 was appointed Head of the School of Philosophy, Politics and History at Ulster College (now the University of Ulster). In 1981 he ...

, 1999) vol. 15 * ''Lord Roberts and the War in South Africa, 1899-1902'' (ed. Professor André Wessels, 2000) vol. 17 * '' Rawlinson in India'' (ed. Dr Mark Jacobsen, 2002) vol. 19 * '' Allenby in Palestine'' (ed. Dr Matthew Hughes, 2004) vol. 22 * '' Lord Kitchener and the War in South Africa, 1899-1902'' (ed. Professor André Wessels, 2006) vol. 25 * ''Major General

Oliver Nugent Major-general (United Kingdom), Major-General Sir Oliver Stewart Wood Nugent, (9 November 1860 – 31 May 1926) was a British Army officer known for his command of the 36th (Ulster) Division during the First World War and particularly at the Bat ...

and the Ulster Division, 1915-1918'' (ed. Nicholas Perry, 2007) vol. 26 * ''Montgomery and the

Battle of Normandy Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Norma ...

'' (ed. Stephen Brooks, 2008) vol. 27 * ''The First World War Letters of General Lord Horne'' (ed. Dr Simon Robbins, 2009) vol. 29 * ''The Military Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam, 1910-1942'' (ed. Dr Jim Beach, 2010) vol. 30 * ''The Military Papers of Lieutenant-General

Frederick Stanley Maude Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude KCB CMG DSO (24 June 1864 – 18 November 1917) was a British Army officer. He is known for his operations in the Mesopotamian campaign during the First World War and for conquering Baghdad in 19 ...

, 1914-1917'' (ed. Dr Andrew Syk, 2011) vol. 32 * ''The Kenya Papers of General Sir George Erskine 1953-1955'' (ed. Dr Huw Bennett & Professor David French, 2013) vol. 33 * ''Military Intelligence from Germany 1906-1914'' (ed. Matthew S. Seligmann, 2014) vol. 34 * ''The Diary of Corporal Vince Schürhoff 1914-1918'' (ed. Jim Beach, 2015) vol. 35 * ''Liaison: General Pierre des Vallières at British General Headquarters, January 1916 to May 1917'' (ed. Elizabeth Greenhalgh, 2016) vol. 36 * ''The Military Papers and Correspondence of Major-General

J. F. C. Fuller Major-General John Frederick Charles "Boney" Fuller (1 September 1878 – 10 February 1966) was a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, known as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising p ...

, 1916-1933'' (ed. Dr Alaric Searle, 2017) vol. 37 * '' Lord Gorell and the Army Education Corps 1918-1920'' (ed. Dr Jim Beach, 2019) vol. 39 * ''The Military Papers of Field Marshal Sir

Claude Auchinleck Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, (21 June 1884 – 23 March 1981), was a British Army commander during the Second World War. He was a career soldier who spent much of his military career in India, where he rose to become Commander ...

, Volume 1: 1940-42'' (ed. Timothy Bowman, 2021) vol. 40 * ''The First World War Diary of Noël Drury, 6th

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: Gallipoli, Salonika, the Middle East and the Western Front'' (ed. Richard S. Grayson, 2022) vol. 41

Miscellaneous

* ''Military Miscellany I: Manuscripts from the

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, the

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and Second Sikh Wars, and the First World War'' (eds. Alan J. Guy, R. N. W. Thomas & Gerard J. DeGroot, 1996) vol. 12 ** ''George Durant’s Journal of the Expedition to Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1758-1759'' (ed. Dr Alan J. Guy) ** ''Daniel Robinson: Letters from India, 1845-1849'' (ed. Dr Robin N. W. Thomas) ** ''The Reverend George Duncan at GHQ, 1916-1918'' (ed. Dr Gerard DeGroot) * ''Military Miscellany II: Manuscripts from Marlborough's Wars, the

American War of Independence The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...

, and the

Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sou ...

'' (eds. David Chandler with Christopher Scott, Marianne M. Gilchrist & Robin Jenkins, 2005) vol. 23 ** ''The Journal of Sergeant John Wilson, 1694-1727'' (ed. Dr David Chandler with Christopher Scott) ** ''Captain the Hon William Leslie (1751-1777), His Life, Letters and Commemoration'' (ed. Dr Marianne M. Gilchrist) ** ''Diary of Private Robert Cross, 1899-1901'' (ed. Robin Jenkins)

References

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