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Back issues of the ''Journal'' are available to members and non-members, and can be purchased online. Click on <FIBIS shop> in the Navigation panel to the left to learn more. An index of the contents of each issue appears below.
Most of the content of ''Journals 1 - 2629'' is available for members to browse online. Articles in '''bold''' are available online via the FIBIS database - click on <FIBIS database> in the Navigation panel to the left to begin a search. You will need to log in to the FIBIS database as a member to be able to read or browse ''Journal'' articles. (Previously, J''ournals 1 - 15'' were available in the Members' Area but these were not indexed in the FIBIS database.) Click on Publications, then Newspapers and Periodicals. Alternatively, use the [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=606&s_id=103 direct link] and then login, then click twice on your "back" button.
The [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=606&s_id=103 FIBIS database] now has a searchable index for Volumes 1-12 of the ''FIBIS Journal''. Anyone can search, but to view the reference in a ''Journal'' you must be a logged in FIBIS member.
Copies of the ''Journal'' are also available at the [[British Library]]. The current issue is on display in the African and Asian Studies Reading Room and earlier editions are in the General Reference Collection, shelfmark ZK.9.a.7347
 
==FIBIS Journal Number 32 (Autumn 2014)==
*Editorial
*The Melvill Family – Three Generations of Commitment to India (Part 1) by ''David Williams'' – page 3
*Trumpeter Inwood, an Anglo-Indian Hero of the Kut Garrison by ''Rosemary Reardon'' – page 18
* The North-Western Railway Volunteer Rifles in East Africa in the First World War by ''Noel Clark'' – page 30
*Gallantry Awards to the Indian Medical Department during the Great War of 1914 – 1918 by ''Allan Stanistreet'' – page 34
*Competition – Win one of three Genealogical DNA tests – page 37
* Elizabeth Martin of Madras and Walter Medhurst, Missionary by ''John Holliday'' – page 38
* The Development of the Meerut District Volunteers, aka, the Meerut Volunteer Horse by ''Tim Bender'' – page 45
* The FIBIS Conference 2014 – page 47
*Reviews
** The Boydell Press Series 'Worlds of the East India Company'. Review by ''Richard Morgan'' – page 48
***The Twilight of the East India Company: The Evolution of Anglo-Asian Commerce and Politics 1790-1860 by Anthony Webster (2009)
***The East India Company and Religion 1698-1858 by Penelope Carson (2012)
***British Naval Power in the East 1794-1805: The Command of Admiral Peter Rainer by Peter A Ward (2013)
*** The East India Company’s London Workers: Management of the Warehouse Labourers 1800-1858 by Margaret Makepeace (2010)
**Indigo and Opium: Two Remarkable Families and Fortunes Won and Lost by Miles Macnair (2013). Review by ''Peter Bailey'' – page 50
* New FIBIS publication – Researching Ancestors in the Indian Army 1858-1947 by Peter A Bailey – page 52
 
==FIBIS Journal Number 31 (Spring 2014)==
*Editorial
*The Walsh Family and the Cawnpore Massacre by ''Paddy Walsh'' - page 3
*Searching for Gopal Drooge and the Murder of Captain William Richardson by ''Tim Willasey- Wilsey'' - page 16
*Keddahs and Epigraphists : miscellaneous appointments in India and Burma in 1909 by ''Bill Hall'' - page 26
*The Origins of Johann Jacob Hoff: my ancestor in the Dutch East India Company by ''Mary McPherson'' - page 30
*Captain Hunter: researching a memorial in Durham Cathedral by ''Geoffrey Fox'' - page 36
*More on Hanoverian Regiments in India: using online newspapers to further research by ''Hilary Sheridan'' - page 49
*Review : When the Tiger Fought the Thistle – The Tragedy of Colonel William Baillie of the Madras Army by Alan Tritton 2013. Review by '' Peter Bailey'' - page 55
==FIBIS Journal Number 30 (Autumn 2013)==
==FIBIS Journal Number 29 (Spring 2013)==
*'''Editorial'''*'''The Clark Brothers - Life in the Bengal Army ''' by ''Charles Gordon Clark'' - page 3*'''Distant Relations Discovered - A Bencoolen Family Reunited ''' by ''James T Day'' - page 15*'''From Agra Fort - George Collett’s letters to Mountstuart Elphinstone ''' by ''Valmay S Young'' - page 19*'''Assistant Surgeon RLW Beveridge, Indian Medical Department ''' by ''Allan Stanistreet'' - page 28* '''The British Indian Civil Service ''' by ''Peter Bailey'' - page 30* '''A Parsonage in Madras - Elizabeth Smith’s letters ''' by ''Diana Bousfield Wells'' - page 38*'''Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, Director of the East India Company ''' by ''George Buxton'' - page 49*'''Review: The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj by Anne de Courcy 2012'''. Review by ''Hugh Wilding'' - page 51
==FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012)==
*'''Editorial'''*'''The Mysterious Murder at Agra ''' by ''Rosemary Reardon'' - page 3*'''Edward Squibb-Letters from a Bengal Cadet ''' by ''Charles Gordon Clark'' - page 15*'''John Braddock- Powder Master ''' by ''Sylvia Murphy'' - page 25*'''The Assassination of Thomas Parr, Resident of Bencoolen ''' by ''Joanna C Fennell'' - page 32*'''Medals to a Nurse ''' by ''Allan Stanistreet'' - page 39*'''Lost and Found-the records of Pembroke House ''' by ''Sylvia Dibbs'' - page 41*'''A Northumberland Fusilier in India, 1886-1896 ''' by ''Ruth Sear'' - page 47*'''Reviews ''' ** '''Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors: A guide for Family Historians by Emma Jolly 2012'''. Review by ''David Blake'' - page 49** '''P&O A History by Ruth Artmonsky 2012'''. Review by ''Richard Morgan'' - page 51** '''Schreyvogel’s Mission: Lindau to Trichinopoly by Walford Pears 2011'''. Review by ''Sarah Bilton'' - page 51
==FIBIS Journal Number 27 (Spring 2012)==
*'''Editorial'''*'''The Imhoff Inheritance ''' by ''Pippa Milnamow''*'''General Gilbert and the surrender of the Sikh Army ''' by ''Sarah Bilton''*'''The Chaplains of St Luke’s, Abbottabad c. 1859-1947 and some notes on the Old Christian Cemetery ''' by ''Prof. Omer Salim-Khan Tarin''*'''The Viceregal Carriages-The Indian Railways and a dynasty of Pearces, Part 2 ''' by ''Michael Feilden Pearce''*'''Discovering biographical sources in the British Library Manuscripts ''' by ''Dorota Walker''*'''Ancestral research through DNA ''' by ''Debbie Kennett''*'''Obituary: Admiral Dawson 13 November 1923 to 23 October 2011 ''' by ''David Barnabas''*'''Reviews'''**'''The Chaplains of the East India Company, 1601-1858 by Daniel O’Connor 2012'''. Review by ''Richard Morgan''**'''DNA and Social networking: A Guide to Genealogy in the 21st Century by Debbie Kennett 2011'''. Review by ''Sarah Bilton''**'''Anu: The Raj Years by Shabnam Vasisht 2009 ''' and '''Anu: The Nomad Years by Shabnam Vasisht 2010'''. Review by ''David Pyle''**'''Graves in British India (FIBIS Fact File 6) by Richard Morgan 2011201'''1. Review by ''Sarah Bilton''
==FIBIS Journal Number 26 (Autumn 2011)==
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