Crimean War Research Society Crimean War Research Society The Crimean War Research Society (CWRS) is an international society of professional and amateur historians who research the Crimean War of 1854-56. The Society aims to bring previously unpublished or under researched material concerning the Crimean War to the attention of a wider audience, together with making it available to present and future historians. It publishes a quarterly journal, "The War Correspondent". Founded in London in 1983, the Society's original members were largely also members of the Victorian Military Society (VMS), who, dissatisfied with the coverage given to the Crimean War by the VMS and its
William Howard Brett the School of Information & Library Science in 1986. The American Library Association (ALA) was honored to have William Howard Brett as their president from 1896 to 1897. Mr. Brett was a founding member and first president of the Ohio Library Association. He was elected into the Notable Ohio Libraries Hall Of Fame by the Ohio Library Council in 1975. William Howard Brett was from "a generation who believed in service to their country and to each other". He was a veteran who served in the 196th Ohio Regiment during the Civil War and work tirelessly for the American Library