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Christmas Day celebrations, Singapore, 1951
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The National Army Museum is closed for redevelopment until Spring 2017, but we remain open through our programme of events held at venues across London. |
19 January 2017, 7pm
Army & Navy Club, London
Roger Hermiston will tell the story of the political and military leaders who steered Britain through its darkest hour, showing how they helped to win the Second World War.
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2 December 2016, 12.30pm
Royal Marsden Conference Centre, London
Colonel Nick Lipscombe will examine how the east coast of Spain was important to the Spanish, French and British for very different reasons during the Peninsular War.
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Somme, November 1916
Major Allen Holford-Walker’s papers demonstrate how the British struggled to make the most of their new weapon - the tank - on the Somme.
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Reading room and enquiry service re-open
The Reading Room at our Stevenage store has resumed a temporary service where you can access items by appointment. Our public enquiries service has also now re-opened.
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12 January 2017, 12.30pm
Royal Marsden Conference Centre, London
Richard Vinen will unpick the myths of the two 'gap years', which all British men who came of age between 1945 and the early 1960s had to fill with National Service.
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New collections blog
Watch the conservation of Major ‘Bronco’ Lane’s frostbitten toes and see them transformed, ready for display in the new Museum.
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26 January 2017, 12.30pm
Royal Marsden Conference Centre, London
Archaeologist Kevin Booth will look closely at the cell block graffiti left by First World War conscientious objectors imprisoned at Richmond Castle, revealing their emotions and experiences.
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Student blog
The Museum worked in partnership with the Houses of Parliament Education Service to host a schools debate asking whether your country has the right to make you fight. Student journalist Gaia Masullo gives a run-down of the day's activities.
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New collections blog
This Scottish poppy is an important artefact dating from the early days of the Poppy Appeal. Ready for display in the new Museum, the poppy has undergone a dramatic transformation, so it blooms once again.
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New book
Clare Hollingworth is famous for getting ‘the scoop of the century’ – the outbreak of the Second World War. Clare’s great-nephew Patrick Garrett tells the gripping story of her century-long journey from a childhood in rural England, right up to Britain’s final 'End of Empire' in Hong Kong.
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