The Crimean War Research Society exists to honour and remember those that fell in the war and to study the war in its entirety - from mainstream topics like the deaths from disease in the Crimea and the naval confrontation in the Baltic to little-known aspects of the war such as the British Army's refusal to deploy poison gas at Sevastopol, and the naval actions in the Pacific and White Sea. The Alma; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Inkerman – the Soldier's Battle; Florence Nightingale; the Fall of Sevastopol; the endurance of the ordinary soldier; the Great Storm; the political wrangles in Constantinople, Vienna, Paris and London; the newspaper reporting and the new-fangled telegraph; the soldiers, sailors, camp-followers, spectators, businessmen and politicians; the effect on the military, industry and the man in the street. The CWRS has members, both professional and amateur historians, who have done much research into particular subjects: the Heavy Brigade; the battle of Sinope; the fighting in the Danubian states; what happended at Hangö; the Russian nurses in Sevastopol; advances in steam technology; the British Commissariat; “infernal machines”; the siege of Kars and the fighting in the Transcaucasus; the foreign legions; the effect of the war on the Ottoman Empire and society; family history and the later lives of survivors; death rates from tuberculosis among those who served with the naval brigade; Mary Jane Seacole; the Victoria Cross… to name just a few!
Specialties
The Siege of Sevastopol, The campaigns in the Baltic, The battle of the Alma, The battle of Balaklava
