Defence and conflict
Muirhead Bone was born on the 23rd March 1876 in the suburb of Partick in Glasgow. Born into rather an impoverished family, any talent Bone and his siblings showed was encouraged. Each birthday Bone received artist’s materials and every week …
The instruction to ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ has become one of the most recognisable slogans in British history. The phrase has reinforced a popular view of life in the Second World War and has been reproduced on everything from …
...visitors reach a section focusing on Under age and Over age soldiers, telling the tale of Sidney Lewis, the youngest combatant to sign up during the First World War (at...
Members of 13 Parachute Battalion relax with a Para dog 1945. Copyright Airborne Assault Duxford In March 1947, an Alsatian patrol dog with the 13th Parachute Battalion received the...
...This means that the JIC provides a forum for the approval of interdepartmentally agreed assessments where the main customer Departments for intelligence are brought together with the intelligence agencies. The...