The following publications provide useful information on a range of topics, from researching soldiers' records to military art and photography.
Soldiers' records
Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978
J B M Frederick
Microform Academic Publishers, 1984, ISBN 1851170073
Regiments and Corps of the British Army
Ian S Hallows
Arms and Armour Press, 1991, ISBN 1858912377
The Victorian Army at Home
Allan Ramsey Skelley
Croom Helm, 1977, ISBN 0856643351
A Register of the Regiments and Corps of the British Army
Arthur Swinson
Archive Press, 1972, ISBN 0855910003
The British Army Handbook, 1914-1918
Andrew Rawson
Sutton Publishing, 2006, ISBN 0750937459
The World War One Sourcebook
Peter J Haythornthwaite
Arms and Armour Press, 2004, ISBN 1854093517
Army Records: A Guide for Family Historians
William Spencer
National Archives, 2008, ISBN 1905615108
Family History in the Wars: How Your Ancestors Served Their Country
William Spencer
National Archives, 2007, ISBN 1903365953
A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army
A S White
(Also available on CD-ROM as Armies of the Crown.)
London Stamp Exchange, 1988, ISBN 1847341322
Regiments: Regiments and Corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth 1758-1993: A Critical Bibliography of Their Published Histories
Roger Perkins
(Also available on CD-ROM as Armies of the Crown.)
Newton Abbott, 1994, ISBN 0950642932
The AMOT Guide to Military Museums
Army Museums Ogilby Trust
Millennium Publishing, 2007, ISBN 1903942616
A Guide to Military Museums and Other Places of Military Interest
Terence and Shirley Wise
9th edition, Imperial Press, 1999, ISBN 1856740307
Researching family history
A Guide to the Regiments and Corps of the British Army
J M Brereton
London, 1985, ISBN 0370305787
The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army
David Chandler
Oxford, 1994, ISBN 0198691785
Handbook of British Regiments
Christopher Chant
London, 1988, ISBN 0415002419
Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978
J B M Frederick
Wakefield, 1984, ISBN 185117009X
The Victorian Army at Home
Allan Ramsey Skelley
London, 1977, ISBN 0856643351
In Search of Army Ancestry
Gerald Hamilton-Edwards
Phillimore and Co, London, 1977, ISBN 0850332877
Tracing Your Family History - Army
Imperial War Museum, London, 1999, ISBN 1901623351
Soldiers of the East India Company and the Indian Army
Soldiers of the Raj, The Indian Army, 1600-1947
A J Guy & P B Boyden
London, 1997, ISBN 0901721352
The Military in British India: The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947
T A Heathcote
Manchester & New York, 1995, ISBN 0719035708
Fidelity and Honour, The Indian Army from the 17th to the 21st Century
S L Menezes
New Delhi, 1993, ISBN 0670839957
The Indian Army
B Mollo
Poole, 1981, ISBN 0713710748
British military art
Index to British Military Costume Prints 1500-1914
Army Museums Ogilby Trust, 1972, ISBN 095022510X
Prints of British Military Operation. A Catalogue Raisonné...from the Norman Conquest to the campaign in Abyssinia
Lt-Col C de W Crookshank
Adlard & Son 1921, ISBN
Military Drawings and Paintings in the Royal Collection
A E Haswell Miller & N P Dawnay
Phaidon, 1970 (2 vols), ISBN 0714813834
British Artists and War. The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914
Peter Harrington
Greenhill Books, 1993, ISBN 1853671576
Images of the Army. The Military in British Art 1815-1914
J M W Hichberger
Manchester University Press, 1988, ISBN 0719025753
Realism and Politics in Victorian Art of the Crimean War
Matthew Paul Lalumia
UMI Research Press, 1984, ISBN 0835714993
The War Illustrators
Pat Hodgson
Osprey, 1977, ISBN 0850450799
Lady Butler, Battle Artist
Paul Usherwood and Jenny Spencer-Smith
Alan Sutton & National Army Museum, 1987, ISBN 0862993555
Artists and Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War
Ryno Greenwall
Fernwood Press, 1994, ISBN 0958315426
Early British military photography
The British Army from Old Photographs from the National Army Museum
Boris Mollo
Dent and Sons, 1975, ISBN 0460021869
Early War Photographs
Pat Hodgson
Osprey, 1974, ISBN 085045221X
The Army in India, 1850-1914. A Photographic Record
Hutchinson of London with the National Army Museum, 1968, ISBN 0090889207
All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton 1852-1860
G Baldwin
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004, ISBN 0300104901
Impressed by Light. British Photography from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860
Roger Taylor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007, ISBN 0300124058
