Presentations and workshops
Tailor a study day for your students. Explore different themes using a variety of active workshops, illustrated talks and object handling.
- Technological developments of the First World War
Explore changes in and the impact of artillery, gas, tanks, air power and steel helmets using the Museum’s archive, photographic and handling
collection of weapons and equipment.
- Media and Propaganda
Uncover the Army’s uneasy relationship with the press during the Crimean, Boer and First World Wars.
- Medicine 1854-1929
Get your hands on a scarifier and cups for bleeding, images of Boer War hospitals and First World War field dressing to identify changes in medical theory from miasma to carbolic spray and amputation to X-Ray.
- Weapons, technology and tactics, 1854-1929
Discover the paradigm shifts of industrialised warfare, from the humble Minié rifled musket ball to the Handley-Page bomber using the Museum’s archive, photographic and handling collection of weapons and equipment.
- Archive investigation
Use original documents and photographs to examine themes such as soldiers' views on flogging, women at war and attitudes to Florence Nightingale.
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