Redcoats to Tommies

KEVIN LINCH is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds. He specialises in the history of Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the interaction between Britain's armed forces and wider social and cultural trends. MATTHEW LORD specialises in British military culture and counterinsurgency after 1945, particularly focusing on the interaction between politics and the honours system. He has worked as Lecturer in Military History at Aberystwyth University. KEVIN LINCH is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds. He specialises in the history of Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the interaction between Britain's armed forces and wider social and cultural trends. MATTHEW LORD specialises in British military culture and counterinsurgency after 1945, particularly focusing on the interaction between politics and the honours system. He has worked as Lecturer in Military History at Aberystwyth University.

Introduction
Citizen Soldiers: 'Military Spirit' and Recruitment in Britain during the Wars against France, 1793-1815
From Party of Order to Gentlemen's Plaything - Rural Identity and the British Yeomanry Cavalry
'Kitchener's Mob': Myth and Reality in Raising the New Army, 1914-15
Sun, Sea and Starvation: The Logistics of the British Garrison on Minorca, 1746-56
British Soldiers, Sieges, and the Laws of War: The 1807 Siege of Montevideo
'Something-to-smoke, at the right time, is a godsend': Voluntary Action and the Provision of Cigarettes to Soldiers during the First World War
'Our Brother Officers in India': The Military Lobby in Imperial Politics of the 1780s
'A Soldier's Life is a Merry One', or, 'A Certain Cure for Gout and Rheumatism': The Shift in Popular Perceptions of the Common Soldier in Late-Victorian Britain, 1870-c.1910
Irish Military Cultures in the British Army, c. 1775-1992
'Fond of Shooting?': The Social Bonds of the Indian Army Officer Corps, 1858-1901
The Social Reality of the British Army in Interwar Britain
The Military Culture and Traditions of an Unmilitary People