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 The Society aims to bring previously unpublished or under researched material concerning the Crimean War to the attention of a wider audience, together with making it available to present and future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 Thomas Russell he served on the executive committee of the National Catholic War Council, and was head of the press department of the National Catholic Welfare Council. Russell served as head of the Diocese of Charleston for ten years, until his death at the age of sixty-three. His relative John Joyce Russell later served as Bishop of Charleston before becoming Bishop of Richmond. William Thomas Russell William Thomas Russell (October 20, 1863 – March 18, 1927) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Charleston from 1917 until his death in 1927. William Russell was born