Monday, 16 June 2025

Comanche Warrior 1830 Jonathan Smith


From the Osprey Warrior no 75 Comanche Warrior


 

National Army Museum exhibition


Myth and Reality: Military Art in the Age of Queen Victoria
📅 1 Jul 2025 - 1 Nov 2026
🎟️ Free!
Our brand new exhibition opens next month. This major exhibition of rarely seen artworks illuminates shifting attitudes towards soldiers and the Army during Queen Victoria’s reign (1837 – 1901).
Discover over 100 inspiring artworks - including paintings, sketchbooks and miniatures - from the National Army Museum's collections, as well as major loans from the Royal Collections Trust and the National Portrait Gallery
📸 Home Again, 1858. Oil on canvas by Henry Nelson O’Neil

The Civil War CD

 Got this for 50p. Don't usually buy CDs but I thought this was interesting. Hear it on Youtube here



Sunday, 15 June 2025

Bayerisches Armeemuseum book

 Reading material

Timely for the opening of the new permanent exhibition "War und Peace." Military in Bavaria 1870-1914" of course, there was also the catalog. It can be bought in the museum shop for the price of €25.