The Military History Consortium (MHC) connects institutions, academics, and students engaged in the study of warfare and/or military organisations in the past. Its dual aim is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas in order to strengthen international research cooperation, and a framework for joint teaching initiatives and programmes. The MHC’s membership is international, and its scope is global. While the consortium’s teaching and research agendas focus on the past, it seeks to address contemporary security challenges and inform related policy debates. It is only the study of war and the military in the past that enables us to understand and contextualise the present and thus prepare for the future.

The MHC will be holding its third annual conference on 3-5 June 2026 at Sciences Po Aix/MESOPOLHIS in Aix-en-Provence, France. The keynote lecture will be given by Professor Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po Paris).

For more information about the MHC, please visit the MHC website or the Consortium's Linkedin profile.