Resources
Bibliography
This list provides links to key texts for the study of Britain's soldiers in this period.
Clicking on the title will link to worldcat.org where you can find copies in libraries local to you.
Material about soldiering in Britain c.1750-1815
- Ackroyd, Marcus, Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss, Kate Retford and John Stevenson, Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions and Social Mobility in the British Isles, 1790-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Bartlett, Thomas, and Keith Jeffery, A military history of Ireland (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Bowen, H. V., War and British Society 1688-1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Brumwell, Stephen, Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-63 (CUP 2002) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Colley, Linda Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (Yale, New Haven, 1992) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Conway, Stephen, The British Isles and the War of American Independence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Conway, Stephen, War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth Century Britain and Ireland (OUP, 2006) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Coss, Edward, All for the King's Shilling; The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808-1814 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Cookson, J. E., The British Armed Nation, 1793-1815 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Frey, Sylvia, The British Soldier in America (Austin : University of Texas Press, ©1981) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Gee, Austin, The British Volunteer Movement, 1794-1814 (Oxford, OUP, 2003) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Holmes, Richard, Redcoat : the British soldier in the age of horse and musket (New York : Norton, 2002) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Houlding, John, Fit for Service: The Training of the British Army, 1715-95 (OUP 1981) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Linch, Kevin, Britain and Wellington's Army: recruitment, society and tradition, 1807-15 (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Lynn, John A., Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: CUP, 2002) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Nelson, Ivan F., The Irish Militia, 1793-1802, Ireland's forgotten army (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Murdoch, Steve and Andrew Mackillop (eds), Fighting for Identity: Scottish Military Experience c.1150-1900 (Brill, 2002) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Philp, Mark, (ed.) Resisting Napoleon: the British Response to the Threat of Invasion (Ashgate, 2006) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Robertson, John, The Scottish Enlightenment and the Militia Issue (John Donald, 1985) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Spring, Matthew, With Zeal and Bayonets Only (Univ of Okalahoma Press, 2010) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Steppler, Glenn A., Britons To Arms: The Story of the Volunteer Soldier(Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1992) (amazon.co.uk link)
- Western, John Randle, The English militia in the eighteenth century : the story of a political issue, 1660-1802 (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1965) (amazon.co.uk link)
Soldiering in the Eighteenth Century
- Duffy, Christopher, The Military Experience in the Age Reason (Hertfordshire: Wordsworth, 1998) (amazon.co.uk link)
Britain in the Eighteenth Century
- Conway, Stephen, Britain, Ireland, and continental Europe in the eighteenth century : similarities, connections, identities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) (amazon.co.uk link)
General material on soldiers
- Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975), part 3 (amazon.co.uk link)
- Yuval Noah Harari, The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture (2008) (amazon.co.uk link)
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Comment by Dolores (Keville) De Vries on July 20, 2011 at 20:33 -
I have purchased a booklet from Geneological Publishing Co. Inc. (orig. published by Federation of Family
History Societies U.K.) Library of Congress Catalogue Card No. 0-8063-1676-4: 'Militia Lists and Musters-
1757-1876. 4th Edition--Jeremy Gibson & Mervyn Medlycott. A Directory of Holdings in the British Isles.
This booklet has the Militia Ballot Lists 1757-1831, & 'Defense' Lists 1798-1804.It has the offices that
hold all the records in UK, Wales,Channel Islands,Scotland, & Ireland. It is $8.50 @*Geneological.com
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Comment by Ed Coss on February 14, 2012 at 1:55
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Might I be immodest and suggest adding All for the King's Shilling; The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808-1814 to the bibliography? http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Kings-Shilling-Wellington-Commanders/dp...
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Comment by Kevin Linch on February 28, 2012 at 11:02 -
Done; and just so you don't feel alone being immodest, I've added my book in too!
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Comment by John Grenier on April 17, 2013 at 14:43
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To piggyback on immodesty, I suggest John Grenier _The First Way of War_ (CUP, 2005) and _The Far Reaches of Empire_ (U of OK Press, 2008). Cheers.
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Comment by andrew langston on May 6, 2013 at 14:17
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Through pressure of work, my research took a backseat. I was happily picking up info from the British Militia and Volunteers Study Group. On my return, I can't find it. Can anyone help? Thank you
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