Posted on July 23, 2020
Military Fashion & The Hussars
British Army uniforms have been a source of sartorial inspiration since their inception. From red coats to camouflage, the allure...
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Posted on July 6, 2020
Wartime Footballer Alf Ramsey DCLI
The Military Footballer Alfred (Alf) Ramsey is most well known as the extraordinary football tactician who led the England Football...
Posted on May 22, 2020
Fighting Fit
Military Museums for Mental Wellbeing Wellbeing seems to be the buzzword on everybody’s lips at the moment, especially with the...
Posted on May 12, 2020
Florence Nightingale’s Letter
Today on International Nurses Day we proudly celebrate our nurses on what would have been Florence Nightingale’s 200th Birthday, one...
Posted on April 27, 2020
Beauty from Bullets
‘Trench Art’ ‘Trench art’ is a catch-all term which describes items made by soldiers and civilians during and after World...
Posted on April 27, 2020
Crafting in World War 1
Lap Crafts for the convalescing soldier During World War One, injured soldiers were sent to hospitals to recover from their...
Posted on April 22, 2020
Food Rationing and Dig for Victory!
Recent reports of panic buying and empty supermarket shelves make rationing and the Dig for Victory campaign undeniably topical amid...
Posted on April 22, 2020
The Lucknow Quilt
The creation of an unknown soldier during the Siege of Lucknow The Citizen Curators team at Bodmin Keep have been...
Posted on April 21, 2020
Object in focus
Horse hoof snuff box This snuff box has been made from the hoof of a horse, and then fitted with...
Posted on March 2, 2020
Where is our LGBTQ+ history?
After spending an entire morning trawling through the museum’s collections database looking for LGBTQ+ related objects for Bodmin Keep’s latest...