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1. Hands-on Seminars
This series of seminars is intended to give you an opportunity to experience first hand some carefully selected objects from the Royal Armouries great collections within a particular context.
2. Napoleonic Wars: 1792-1815
Find out what it was really like to serve in the British Army in the Napoleonic Wars.
3. George Francklin Atkinson and the Great Rebellion of 1857
This session tells the story of George Francklin Atkinson, a Captain in the Bengal Engineers who produced a unique and often quoted history of the 1857 rebellion in India.
4. The First World War
What can we learn from photographs from the First World War? What do all those badges, chevrons, cap-badges and uniforms actually mean? This session gives you the opportunity to compare your own material with archival images from our collection.
5. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Great War
The creator of Sherlock Holmes campaigned for the introduction of helmets to the British Army in 1915-1916. Discover more about his designs for body armour.
6. Home Front and Front Line: 1914-1918
Investigate the home front with rarely seen panoramic photographs of a national filling factory at Chilwell and discover how Leeds company Greenwood and Batley contributed to the war effort and profited by it.
6 Events
1. Japanese Arms and Armour Seminar
Ian Bottomley, former senior curator of Oriental arms and armour at the Royal Armouries, gives a fascinating insight into the traditions and techniques of Japanese armourers and swordsmiths.
2. Firearms of the American Civil War Seminar
Learn about the development of small-arms in the United States during the first part of the 19th century.
3. Flashman Seminar
As a tribute to the author, George MacDonald Fraser, who died earlier this year, this seminar follows the career of Sir Harry Flashman VC.
4. Pistols and Revolvers Seminar
This seminar, led by Stuart Taylor, of the Historical Breechloading Small Arms Association.
5. On A Knife Edge: the ethics of weapons display
A seminar discussing the ethics of displaying weapons.
6. Hands-on Seminar: Wellington's Army
A two day seminar which is part of the Museum’s weekend of events associated with the Napoleonic Wars.