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 The Society aims to bring previously unpublished or under researched material concerning the Crimean War to the attention of a wider audience, together with making it available to present and future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 James until 1894, when he became private secretary to Cardinal Gibbons and curate at the Cathedral of the Assumption. In 1908, Russell was named pastor of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. He there earned a reputation as an eminent preacher. In 1909, he inaugurated the Pan-American Mass, an annual liturgical celebration held at St. Patrick's on Thanksgiving. Before being discontinued in 1914, the Mass was attended by President William Howard Taft and representatives of 21 American republics. He was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate by Pope Pius X in 1911, and named an honorary member of