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Museum acquires items from defender of Rorke’s Drift

At the auction, the museum acquired three lots belonging to Chard: a small archive of material relating to his life; a manuscript copy concerning the battle; and surveying and drawing instruments in a wooden case belonging to the Lieutenant.…

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The Battlefields of England

I headed for the battlefield monument to get my bearings – an obelisk erected in 1740 to mark the spot where Warwick the Kingmaker, the greatest figure of the Wars of the Roses, was supposedly cut down...…

British Army/TV & Film

War on Film: The Desert Rats (1953)

The battle scenes are, in the main, well made, especially in showing what it was like for men hiding in dugouts and wadis in the desert under intense artillery-fire.…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bringing an Anglo-Saxon brooch back to life

Given the prominent location of this woman’s grave, overlooking the Ock valley, and the elaborate items she was buried with, it is…

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