Grupo de Investigación en Historia Militar

Imperial War Museum

IWM was founded on 5 March 1917 when the War Cabinet approved a proposal by Sir Alfred Mond MP for the creation of a national war museum to record the events still taking place during the Great War. The intention was to collect and display material as a record of everyone’s experiences during that war - civilian and military - and to commemorate the sacrifices of all sections of society. The interest taken by the Dominion governments led to the renaming of the National War Museum to Imperial War Museum later in 1917. It was formally established by Act of Parliament in 1920 and a governing Board of Trustees appointed. The museum was opened in the Crystal Palace by King George V on 9 June 1920. From 1924 to 1935 it was housed in two galleries adjoining the former Imperial Institute, South Kensington. On 7 July 1936, the Duke of York, shortly to become King George VI, reopened the museum in its present home on Lambeth Road, South London, formerly the central portion of Bethlem Royal Hospital, or ‘Bedlam’. With the onset of war in 1939 IWM’s remit was extended to include the Second World War. While a programme of collecting got underway, vulnerable collections were evacuated to stores outside London, and the museum was closed to the public from September 1940 to November 1946. Most of the exhibits survived the war, but a Short Seaplane which had flown at the Battle of Jutland was shattered when a German bomb fell on the Naval Gallery on 31 January 1941. This was just one of more than 40 incendiary hits on the building throughout the war. The Korean War led to a further redefinition of the IWM’s terms of reference to include all conflicts in which British or Commonwealth forces had been involved since 1914. IWM has therefore continued to collect every type of evidence documenting its very broad remit. Its collections are vast and rich, and in addition to its role as a museum, IWM is also a major national art gallery, a national archive of written and audio visual recourse, and a centre for research. During the 1970s and 1980s IWM underwent a period of unprecedented expansion, with the establishment of three new branches – IWM Duxford in 1976, HMS Belfast in 1978 and Churchill War Rooms in 1984. The fifth member of the IWM family, IWM North, opened in Trafford, Greater Manchester, on 5 July 2002.

Tomás Gil Márquez
Investigador
Juan Ignacio Salafranca Álvarez
Investigador
Juan Urquía Carpio
Investigador
Jesús Martínez de Merlo
Investigador
Ignacio Moreno
Investigador
Emilio Diz Monje
Investigador
Eduardo Herrerín Torres
Investigador
Dr. Emiliano Nicolás Abad García
Investigador
Dr. Eduardo Juárez Valero
Investigador
David Odalric de Caixal i Mata
Director del CIIA
Alberto Villagrasa
Investigador

Dra. Erin Mc. Coy
Universidad de Beaufort

Marie Plus
Cátedra de Historia Militar

Tyler White
Investigador
Steve Recca
Investigador
Roger Cirillo
Investigador
PhD Robert Thompson
Investigador
Olavo Freitas Mendoça
Investigador
María Antonieta Mejia Salazar
Investigadora
Juan Carlos Diz Monje
Investigador
José María Olivero Orecchia
Investigador
Jorge Eduardo Cepeda Jiménez
Investigador
Helder Fernán Giraldo Bonilla
Investigador
Gastón Vallejos
Investigador
Frank A. Blazich, Jr., PhD
Investigador
Erika Constanza Figueroa Pedreros
Investigadora
Emanuele Sica
Investigador
Elmers Velandia Pardo
Investigador
Dr. Roberto Muñoz Bolaños
Investigador
Dr. Heiner Bröckermann
Investigador
Dr. Brian Laslie
Investigador
Donald Snedeker
Investigador
Alejo Miguel Díaz
Investigador

Pablo Enrique Miquel Baustista
Investigador
Mario Ariza
Investigador
María Jesús Sánchez Raya
Investigadora
Luis Felipe Aramayo Rossi
Investigador
Iván Fernando Pellejero
Investigador
Celia Zunzunegui Pacho
Investigadora
Carlos Pintor Extramiana
Investigador
Antonio Guerrero Vázquez
Investigador

US Naval War College Digital Commons
US Naval History Heritage Command
US ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY
United States Naval Academy Nimitz Library
United States Military Academy West Point Digital History Center
United States Air Force Historical Support Division
United States National Archives
The National World War II Museum
TDC World History Documentaries
Investigador
Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr
Imperial War Museum
Investigador
Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library Digital
American Battlefield Trust
Investigador

Arthur Gullachsen
Investigador

Óscar Orlando Porras Rodríguez
Investigador

Profesor Francesco Zampieri
Investigador

Mario Alberto Rivas Díaz
Investigador

Ricardo Peralta Saucedo
Investigador

Philippe Rogers
Investigador

Dr. Kirklin J. Bateman
Investigador

Oscar Uceda Márquez
Investigador

Pierre Muller
Investigador

Oscar Roberto Armanelli
Investigador
Dr Sergio Daniel Skobalski
Investigador

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