Military Museums

For an army on a campaign to function well, it must be supported by a supply column that will keep it provided with food, fuel, ammunition and all the other ess...

The English Civil War spread out to affect communities the length and breadth of the country. From the large cities and big towns down to small villages, the ef...

In the 1930s, a journalist and author, Arthur Mee, collated a list of villages in Britain that had been left untouched by the losses among the men and women who...

In Britain, you don’t have to look too far to find a historical site. It might be a castle, a battlefield or an estate where some historical figure once resided...

When it comes to thinking about forts in North America, we imagine the wooden log palisade construction because that is what we are used to seeing in Western fi...

In mid-1940, just as Britain was reeling from the army’s withdrawal from Dunkirk, the threat of invasion by the German army became a real possibility. The count...

Defensive positions from all periods can be found around the coast of Britain, from Medieval castles to Tudor forts, so-called ‘Palmerstone Forts’ from the 19th...

The opening scenes of the film ‘The Dirty Dozen’, where the convicted men are given the chance to redeem themselves by volunteering for a secret mission, are su...

John Norris discusses the various nuclear bunkers built during the cold war, including the Kemmel Command Bunker

John Norris heads to the Isle of Wight and the summer home of Queen Victoria, the stately Osborne House…

An often overlooked historic gem, Somerset’s Farleigh Hungerford Castle has a rich history. John Norris tells its tale…

JOHN NORRIS visits the Isle of Wight to investigate some Victorian defences built in fear of French attack…