CONTACT & LINKS
Email: andrew.e.cormack@icloud.com
Dr Andrew Cormack
36 Ebbisham Road
Worcester Park
Surrey
KT4 8NE
The National Archives [link] of the United Kingdom - formerly known as The Public Records Office. It is not possible to do any serious research on a subject having a connection with central government without using TNA's facilities. Its systems, after a little familiarization, are easy to use and the staff unfailingly helpful.
The British Library [link] - an unrivalled source of printed, manuscript and cartographic material. Regular users will become familiar with the idiosyncrasies of its retrieval methods and perhaps with the discomfort of its furniture. Much useful material is on open access in the reading rooms.
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, [link] is still the home of several hundred former soldiers who find comfortable and companionable refuge within its walls. The Hospital has its own historic archive, though much material was transferred to The National Archives in the 1980s. Appointments are necessary to consult this material. The site also has a most interesting small museum and an excellent teashop. With its grand and soberly elegant buildings and its calm atmosphere, it is a delight to visit.
The Society for Army Historical Research [link] has been publishing new research on the British Army and transcriptions, with notes, of original documents - diaries, letters, reports, inspection and casualty returns, bills and money papers - since 1921. It is also illustrated with portraits and a variety of other pictures and maps/battle plans. A vast amount of material has been published in those years and all of it is now freely available to members of the Society through a link with JSTOR. Each issue of its quarterly Journal, so far as possible, contains pieces on the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.