Crimean War Research Society of these and more are examined by the Crimean War Research Society." The Society's journal, "The War Correspondent", contains the results of recent researches by the Society's own members, many of whom are internationally respected professional historians. Each year the Society awards the Canon Lummis Trophy for the most original article in its journal. The Society provides expert advice to projects concerned with the Crimean War; these have included Channel Four's 1997 documentary "The Crimean War" as well as books and journals. The Society has a three-day annual conference when presentations and original research on the Crimean War are given.
Sir William Russell, 2nd Baronet Sir William Russell, 2nd Baronet Lieutenant-General Sir William Russell, 2nd Baronet (5 April 1822 – 19 March 1892), was a British Army officer who served in the Crimean War and in the suppression of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and then became a Liberal Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover from 1857 to 1859, and for Norwich from 1860 to 1874. Russell was the son of Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet of Charlton Park (1773–1839) and his second wife Jane Eliza Russell, daughter of Major-General James Dodington Sherwood. After taking the degree of M.D. at