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United Navy, Army and Air Force Board History Project
A scholarly publication series chronicling the history of the United Board and Free Church chaplaincy through the World Wars and beyond.
About the Project
Founder & Secretary: Dr Neil E Allison FSAScot
Web Site Developer & Manager: Carolyn Blackshaw
In 2006 Dr Neil Allison was elected at the United Navy, Army and Airforce Board's (U.B.) annual conference to take on the role of the 'Official' Historian of the United Navy, Army and Air Force Board. He has since written and presented numerous academic papers related to that unique and exciting history.
In 2015 he founded the United Navy, Army and Airforce History Project (U.B.H.P.) to continue to promote that history through its own publications and the awarding of the 'Making History' Shakespeare Memorial Medal for significant published work. In 2026 Caitie Dickson was appointed the Senior Publications Editor and is presently working on a collection of papers which will be collated into the forthcoming volume The Distinctive Evangelical Ministry in Military Chaplaincy, Mission and Christian Education due to be published in 2027.
Official History & Related Volumes
Neil E Allison
The Official History of the United Board Vol: One, The Clash of Empires 1914–1939
The United Navy, Army and Air Force Board · 2008, Revised Edition 2014
Neil E Allison
The Official History of the United Board Revised Vol: Two, The Clash of Ideologies 1939–1950
Norfolk: The United Navy, Army and Air Force Board · 2012, Revised Edition 2015
Nicola Sherhod & Neil E Allison
Bunyan History: Padre W.J. Coates Letters from the Front
Norfolk: Bunyan Meeting & United Board History Project · 2015
Neil E Allison & David B Milner
T.N. Tattersall, A Cotton Mill Child: A Chaplain's Letters from the Front 1914–1917
Norfolk: United Board History Project · 2020
Series Editor: Neil E Allison
John Howard Shakespeare Memorial Papers
Published for the Centenary of the First World War.
Derek B Murray
John Howard Shakespeare Memorial Paper 2014: High Calvinist Reactions to the First World War
Norfolk: United Board History Project · 2016
Peter Howson
John Howard Shakespeare Memorial Paper 2015: 'Ministry to Saturday Night Soldiers': The Formation of a Chaplains' Department for the New Territorial Army of 1907
Norfolk: United Board History Project · 2016
Garry Ketchen
John Howard Shakespeare Memorial Paper 2016: Edinburgh Churches and WW1: Marshall Street and Bristo Baptist Church
Norfolk: United Board History Project · 2017
Brian R Talbot
John Howard Shakespeare Memorial Paper 2017 'The Fellowship of Trial': Religious Rhetoric in World War One: The Sermons and Poetry of Revd Walter Mursell, Minister of Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church, Paisley
Norfolk: United Board History Project · 2017
Rod Badams
John Howard Shakespeare Memorial Paper 2018: C.H. Spurgeon, His Students and the First World War
Norfolk: United Board History Project · 2018
Neil E Allison
John Howard Shakespeare Memorial Paper 2019: The National Day of Prayer Controversy (1930): State Control and Free Church Resistance
Norfolk: United Board History Project · 2019
Articles Online
Published Articles by Neil E Allison
Neil E Allison
Albert Leslie Beckingham (1916–2007): Jumping with 224 Field Ambulance on D-Day 1944
Read article (Baptist Historical Society)Neil E Allison
A Free Church Perspective on Military Chaplains' Role in its Historical Context
Read article (ResearchGate)Neil E Allison Phd FSAScot
The United Board Publications and Controversy (1914–2026)
An article surveying the official and unofficial publications of the United Navy, Army and Air Force Board, set against the wider Nonconformist context from the Great War to the present day.