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Under the series title Acta, the proceedings from the international congresses are published, usually in the form of one or two volumes of scholarly articles.
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La série des Actes reprend les textes des communications et allocutions officielles des congrès internationaux, généralement sous la forme d’un recueil comprenant un ou deux tomes selon les cas. |
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Who we are The Military Archives Committee (CAM) is one of the operational bodies of the International Commission of Military History. Since 1990, when CAM was founded, the Committee tried to unite military archival institutions, experts and practitioners to encourage dialogue, exchange and transmission of knowledge and expertise in the specific field of military archives. As the International Council of Archives stated “effective records and archives management is an essential precondition for good governance, the rule of law, administrative transparency, the preservation of mankind's collective memory, and access to information by citizens”. CAM agrees on this definition.
Because of the nature of semi-autonomous body within the ICMH, the activity led in the CAM are under the umbrella of the International Commission of Military History and under the Statutes of the Committee (see statutes). Basically, the CAM meets every year during the International Congress with a specific agenda. The meeting is open to one representative for each national commission in the ICMH. Furthermore other components of the commissions are welcomed. Moreover, since 2013, the committee managed to set up a panel on military archives, an archives visit (preferably on military archives) and other similar events, with the full support of national commissions responsible for the annual congress organisation. Behind all those initiatives is promoting co-operation with historians and the research community in order to spread the values of the archivists and to share with users the information available in the field of military archives. One of the last projects launched since 2013 is to create a military archives guide online, after the first attempt to realise one on paper at the end of ‘80s. The idea is to have an online guide in order to facilitate institutions, researchers and users to find links to military archives and to access directly to the information needed. Every institution can download the template, fill the form and send back to link its website to our online guide. The committee encourages everybody (library, museum, local archives, family archives) who has military archives to participate to this project. Since the foundation, the Committee tried to prepare and to distribute a newsletter (Mars&Janus) that faced success and failure at the same time. In 2021, the CAM decided to relaunch the initiative through the blog (https://cam.hypotheses.org/), a new operational tool useful for all the community. If you are interested to propose articles please contact the committee.
CAM encourages membership from all National Commissions represented in the International Commission for Military History. Moreover, all the activities are open to any person or organisation interested in military archives. If interested in CAM activities, please check in which country the Annual Congress will be held and ask for the draft program. Then contact the CAM steering committee in order to receive support. For the membership, please see the Statutes.
The Committee is happy to receive support in any field of interests with the aim to spread the knowledge and the skills in the specific field of military archives. Partnerships are fundamental to CAM's work because the Committee thinks that fulfilling its aims through collaboration represents one of the pillar of the knowledge dissemination through Society.
The Committee welcomes National Commission initiatives to support CAM. Volunteering is one of them. Volunteering is even open to university students, young specialists and users with a basic knowledge of the matter. Volunteers can disseminate knowledge both within the community of specialists and outside of it. They can contribute to raise the professional and scientific profile of CAM. If you interested, please contact both the president and the secretary general of CAM.
The Archive's Committee board is composed by: President: Secretary-General: Previous Presidents:
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The Bibliographical Committee works mainly on the publication of the International Journal of Military History and Historiography. President and Editor-in-Chief: Secretary general and scientific editor: Members: Honorary Presidents: |
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The Full Board is composed by the President, the two Vice Presidents, the Secretary General, the Treasurer, and between 5 and 10 other members. Within the Full Board, the Executive Board is composed by the President, the two Vice Presidents, the Secretary General and the Treasurer. As elected in 2025, the Board at present includes the following members.
President / Président / Vorsitzender / Presidente / Presidente Vice-president / Vice-président / Stellvertretender Vorsitzender / Vice-Presidente / Vicepresidente Secretary General / Secrétaire général / Generalsekretär / Segretario Generale / Secretario general Treasurer / Trésorier / Schatzmeister / Tesoriere / Tesorero Members / Membres / Mitglieder / Membri / Miembros Lieutenant-Colonel |
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Lorsqu’il était Secrétaire général, l’actuel Président de la CIHM, le Drs. Piet Kamphuis, fonda, en 2003, la « Lettre d’information » de la CIHM. Elle paraît deux fois l’an, généralement en trois langues : l’allemand, l’anglais et le français. |
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Le Comité de bibliographie gère l’édition de la International Journal of Military History and Historiography. Publiée à l’origine en coopération avec la Bibliothèque militaire fédérale à Berne (Suisse), elle est depuis 2010 prise en charge par les éditions Brill, qui jouissent d’une grande renommée internationale.
Président et Rédacteur en chef: Secrétaire général et rédacteur scientifique: Membres:
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Le Comité de l'enseignement encourage la coopération en matière d’enseignement de l’histoire militaire. Une autre tâche de ce Comité est la guidance de jeunes chercheurs, en particulier dans le cadre de l’atelier des chercheurs-doctorants qui, depuis 2008, est inscrit au programme des congrès annuels de la CIHM. Voici notre bureau: Président: Secrétaire général: |
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Fondé par le Col. (e.r.) Dr. Manfred Keyrig, qui dirigea longtemps les Archives militaires fédérales à Fribourg-en-Brisgau, le Comité des archives favorise les échanges entre des archivistes militaires originaires de différents pays. Voici notre bureau: Président: Secrétaire général: Secrétaire: |
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Les 41 commissions nationales que compte actuellement la CIHM en forment le socle. Leur organisation interne varie en fonction des pays – certaines font organiquement partie des Forces armées, d’autres sont des associations privées ou des réseaux de coopération. Elles ont en commun leur engagement en faveur d’une étude scientifique et objective de notre passé.
Website of the Czech Commission Website of the Danish Commission Website of the German Commission Website of the Hellenic Commission of Military History Website of the Spanish Commission Website of the Swiss Commission of Military History Website of the U.S. Commission
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The Educational Committee fosters cooperation in the teaching of military history. A further task of the Committee is supporting and encouraging younger scholars, especially through the “PhD Workshops” initiated in 2007, which take place in the course of the ICMH’s annual Congresses. The Committee also collaborates with the ICMH ExBoard in awarding the André Corvisier Prize for PhD these in military history.
The Educational Committee’s board: President: Secretary General: Members:
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The ICMH rules for five-year statutory elections were approved by the National Commission’s President’s Meeting of August 6, 2004, in Rabat.
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Le Règlement concernant les élections quinquennales statutaires a été approuvé par la Conférence des présidents des commissions nationales le 6 août 2004 à Rabat. |
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Here you can find the pertinent information concerning the elections of the ICMH Executive Board and the ICMH Full Board to be held in 2020. As requested by our “Rules for Statutory Elections”, you can find also the list of candidates and their CVs.
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Communication:
Candidate for the President:
Candidate for the Secretary General:
Candidate for the Treasurer:
Candidates for the Board: Francine Saint Ramond
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In 2010, Professor Dr. Allan R. Millett, Director of the EisenhowerCenter in New Orleans and Vice-President of the International Commission of Military History, proposed the ‘Guidance for Organising International Congresses’, which were formally adopted by the General Assembly at Amsterdam on 3 September 2010. In view of the increasing importance of electronic publishing, paragraphs 2.5 through 2.12 were re-formulated by Professor Dr. Massimo de Leonardis, Professor at the Catholic University of Milano and then-Vice-President of the International Commission. It was adopted at the ICMH Congress in Rio de Janeiro on 2 September 2011. This new revised edition has been prepared in 2017 by Prof. Massimo de Leonardis, President of the International Commission, under mandate of the Executive Board. It is published on the website and distributed as Annex to the Newsletter No. 28, Fall 2017.
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The National commissions represent of the International Commission of Military History’s global outreach. Each National Commission is self-governing and sponsors military history activities within its own nation. In some countries National Commissions are expression of the local Ministry of Defence, in others are private organizations of scholars. In all cases, National Commissions foster the collaboration between civilians and military and work for scholarly research.
Website of the UK CommissionWebsite of the Czech CommissionWebsite of the Danish CommissionWebsite of the German CommissionWebsite of the Hellenic Commission of Military HistoryWebsite of the Italian CommissionWebsite of the Portuguese CommissionWebsite of the Spanish CommissionWebsite of the Swiss Commission of Military HistoryWebsite of the U.S. Commission
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To foster the exchange of information among the National Commissions, a Newsletter was initiated in 2003. It is published twice a year, usually in English and French.
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En 2010, le Professeur Dr. Allan R. Millett, Directeur du Centre Eisenhower de la Nouvelle Orléans et Vice-Président de la Commission internationale d’histoire militaire, a rédigé un « Guide à l’usage des organisateurs des congrès internationaux », formellement adopté par l’Assemblée générale d’Amsterdam le 3 septembre 2010. Vu l’importance croissante des publications électroniques, les paragraphes 2.5 à 2.12 ont été révisés par le Pr. Dr. Massimo de Leonardis, professeur à l’Université catholique de Milan et successeur du Prof. Millett à la Vice-Présidence de la Commission internationale, et adoptés lors du Congrès de la CIHM à Rio de Janeiro, le 2 septembre 2011. |
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The present Statute of the International Commission of Military History was approved by the General Assembly in Douala on 8th September 2017. The English version is the authoritative text.
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Les présents statuts ont été approuvés par l’Assemblée générale du 26 août 2005 à Madrid et corrigés par l’Assemblée générale du 31 août 2012 à Sofia. La version française est la version originale. |
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Ici, nous publiérons des textes d'interêt pour les historiens militaires. D'habitude, ces textes ne seront disponibles que dans un choix limité de langues. The following issues have been published so far: Issue no. 1-2: Paris 1939
Until 1975, several issues of the Revue were supposed to represent ‘volumes’ (tomes): tome I = issues 1-4; tome II = 5-9; tome III = 10-13; tome IV = 14-16; tome V = 17-21; tome VI = 22-25; tome VII = 26-28; tome VIII = 30-32. This ‘double counting’ was then discontinued. A list of articles (Tables et index) was published in Porrentruy (Switzerland) in 1991. |
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In this section, we shall occasionally present other texts related to military history that may be of particular interest to the international scholarly community. These contributions, complementary to our regular publications, reflect the variety of approaches and themes that characterize the field and the work of the International Commission. The following texts have been published so far:
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