Its journal Soldiers of the Queen publishes work by professional and amateur historians as well as articles by academic researchers and the Society provides speakers and lecturers to local groups and seminars as well as organising its own events.
[1] The Victorian Military Society was founded in 1974 by the late John Crouch FRIBA,[2] who was an architect employed by the Ministry of Defence in Great Britain.
The Society's current President is General Lord Dannatt and its Vice-Presidents are Allan Mallinson and Colonel Peter Walton.
Over the years, as well as publishing many articles on a wide number of subjects related to the period 1837 to 1914, the journal has also reflected some of the major anniversaries of the time, producing special editions of Soldiers of the Queen to commemorate General Gordon and the attempt to relieve Khartoum, the Boer War, the Territorial Army and its forerunners, and the 150th anniversary of the Indian Mutiny.
A whole edition was also dedicated to the Royal Navy in the Victorian period, recognising the role it played in maintaining the Pax Britannica, as well as in polar exploration, surveying the oceans and the suppression of the slave trade.