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| David Kelsey's 'CRIMEAN TEXTS' | David Kelsey built a very useful site where he posted a very large selection of transcribed contemporary documents and reports, transcribed by himself and Megan Stevens. Plus much else in the form of commentaries and background material. There are nearly 400 web pages here. The site is now part of the CWRS website. |
| Journey through the Crimean War with John Barham |
This is John Barham's epic work making a very welcome return to the web after far too long an absence. Slightly re-jigged, re-formatted and re-edited, it will be posted chapter by chapter over the coming months. So far up to Chapter Nine. [ Feb 2016 ] |
| 'Wetherall' Database |
SEARCHABLE DATABASE Adjutant General Sir George Augustus Wetherall's Returns Relating to Officers in the Army (Crimea). Searchable Database kindly licensed by Hugh Small. |
| Final Despatches | Mike Hinton's annotated transcription of General Sir William Codrington's final despatches to Lord Panmure. Three despatches are transcribed, the first of which was also published in The Times on 31 July 1856. |
| General Orders | General Orders for the Crimea from 1 July to 12 July 1856. They are reproduced here as an adjunct to the General Orders CD-ROM for the whole of the rest of the campaign, and as a taste of the kind of information contained in the General Orders as a whole. |
| William Henry Drake's Letters & The Commissariat | Megan Stevens' pages about William Henry Drake and the Commissariat, plus transcriptions of his letters home. Includes a spreadsheet of Commissariat officers extracted from various Army Lists covering the war years. |
| Crimean Medals Guide | A beginner's illustrated identification guide to Crimean medals. |
| The Mapleton Archive | Transcribed by Patrick Walker and annotated by Michael Hargreave Mawson, 2005. |
| Scottish Obituaries | Transcribed Crimean War veterans from the Inverness Courier. Transcribed by John Pearson. |
| James Gorman VC | An extraordinary naval life. By Harry Willey. |
| Staff, &c. on Foreign Stations; TURKEY | Compiled from the Army List, December 1854, by Tom Muir. |
| British Mediterranean Stations | Compiled from the Navy Lists, 1854, by Tom Muir. |
| British Mediterranean Fleet Pt.1 | Compiled from the Navy List, corrected to the 20th of June, 1855; ships 'A' to 'M', by Tom Muir. |
| British Mediterranean Fleet Pt.2 | Compiled from the Navy List, corrected to the 20th of June, 1855; ships 'N' to 'W', by Tom Muir. |
| The Crimea Medal Roll for HMS Vesuvius | Transcribed from ADM 171/28 at The National Archives by Tom Muir. |
| Royal Marine Brigade in the Crimea | Introduction and further pages about the RMB in the Crimea. There is the original muster for the brigade (transcribed from ADM 38/4674 96731 at The National Archives by Tom Muir) with transcriptions of the earliest tables of officers and men ashore, plus some medal rolls. |
| Rebuttal of the Seacole mythology | Transcribed from The War Correspondent Volume 30 No.2, July 2012. A sober, fact–based piece from Professor Lynn McDonald explaining exactly why important elements of the modern mythology about Mary Jane Seacole are exactly that: myth. |
| The Crimean War Episode 1 | YouTube video. 1997 Channel Four documentary, part one of three. Series Producer Paul: Kerr. Series: Director Mick Gold. Consultants: Professor Andrew Lambert, Vladimir Shavshin, Adrian-Silvan Ionescu. Plus the Crimean War Research Society. |
| The Crimean War Episode 2 | YouTube video. 1997 Channel Four documentary, part two of three. Series Producer Paul: Kerr. Series: Director Mick Gold. Consultants: Professor Andrew Lambert, Vladimir Shavshin, Adrian-Silvan Ionescu. Plus the Crimean War Research Society. |
| The Crimean War Episode 3 | YouTube video. 1997 Channel Four documentary, part three of three. Series Producer Paul: Kerr. Series: Director Mick Gold. Consultants: Professor Andrew Lambert, Vladimir Shavshin, Adrian-Silvan Ionescu. Plus the Crimean War Research Society. |
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