Professor Ian Beckett’s monograph, A British Profession of Arms: The Politics of Command in the Late Victorian Army (published by Oklahoma University Press), has been shortlisted for the Templer Medal of the Society for Army Historical Research, awarded annually to the best book on British military history published in the previous year. The final award will be announced and presented to the winner by HRH the Duke of Kent at the National Army Museum on 9 April 2019. Professor Beckett retired from teaching at Kent in 2015 but remains an Honorary Professor in the School of History.