What’s on

Museum programme of events –

Evening Talks

Refreshments will now be available before the talk.  Talks will start as before at 6.30pm in the Kincaid Gallery but the doors will open from 5.45pm where wine and canapes will be available in the room next door to the Gallery.

Previous Talks:

Previous talks are available online –

The War in the Green Mountains of Oman, Brigadier Hugh Willing CBE, please click here 

In the Footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia, Captain Charles Blackmore, please click here

For further titles please click here

 

Marching, Fighting, Dying. Evening Talk – Thursday 20 June 2024

Evening Talk by Gareth Glover

at 6.30pm

In the Kincaid Gallery, The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum.

Over the last two centuries, a number of books have been published, which try to describe the life of a soldierin the Peninsular War; but they all suffer from one great flaw – the use of memoirs written by soldiers decades later; which brings the age old problem of hindsight very much to play, while they are also tainted by the change in social norms over the period. (more…)