This book critically examines the significance of gender, race and sexuality to wars waged
by liberal states. Drawing on original field-research with British soldiers, it offers insights into …

In his narrative For Queen and Country, Nigel “Spud” Ely tells a gripping tale of a military
career with the Parachute Regiment and Special Forces, of active engagement as a soldier …

French and British integration policies have for a long time formed two mutually exclusive
paradigms. Built on elements of the ideology introduced during the French Revolution …

This article explores how the British Ministry of Defence's aim to accommodate and harness
a demographically diverse workforce is undermined by the ways it seeks to manage this …

This article delves into the uses of history and examines how the enlisting of Indian soldiers–
particularly from Punjab–into the British Indian Army during the First and Second World Wars …

A statistically based enquiry into recruitment into the British Army over the period 1987-2000
shows that two factors tend to induce young men to enlist: high levels of unemployment in …

Previous research has reported correlations between the military service records of parents
and their children. Those studies, however, have not determined whether a parent's military …

Past studies reveal that military service “runs in the family”: offspring's service records often
accord with those of their parents. To extend this research, this study uses the complete …

In this study, I show that Sikhs in England are increasingly identifying as English over British.
Even though British remains the choice of the majority, younger Sikhs are now more likely to …

Purpose: To gain an understanding of how Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups respond
to information about paramedic courses, their experience of the enrolment processes and …