Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace today, Monday, is Nijmegen Company Grenadier Guards with musical support from the Band of the Scots Guards and the Band of the Welsh Guards. Picture by Mark Leishman

⚓ Our final gate picture for you whilst our entrance gates were repaired. They certainly knew how to decorate for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897! This gate still stands today as a pedestrian access for Gunwharf Quays. bit.ly/43S8PmF

Remembering Mrs. Kelly who traveled with with her husband’s Regiment on the British military's Crimean campaign in the 1850’s, she witnessed the horrors of the major battles there, among them the battles o fSebastopol, Inkerman, Balaklava, Alma. curragh.info/archives/Crime…

Newspaper deliveries in Farringdon, London in 1900.

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#OnThisDay - 23 October 1903 - HMS Neptune made a spectacular passage down the harbour at Portsmouth on her way to the breakers, ramming into HMS Victory before colliding with HMS Hero. Our image shows damage caused to HMS Victory after the collision. bit.ly/4oVW2bk

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School ship HMS Conway on the Mersey. Source: Hall Genealogy Website. HMS Conway was a naval training establishment, or “school ship,” founded in 1859 and based for most of its existence aboard a 19th-century wooden ship of the line. Initially moored on the River Mersey near

Fort Henry Guard Executing General Salute, Kingston, Ontario

The excellent talks by Professor Andrew Lambert, Hugh Small and Mike Hinton at our recent #CrimeanWar conference at National Army Museum are now available to watch online, thanks to Christian Parkinson : victorianmilitary.org/events

Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener marching through Kimberley after the relief of the besieged city (1900)

Pioneer Charles Manners, Guardsman William Webster and Henry Lemmen of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, veterans of the Crimean War (1856)

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Delighted to have been awarded the RM Historical Society "Derek Oakley Award" for my Pen & Sword Books "Black Redcoats" at the AGM at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard & The National Museum of the Royal Navy today. It has been a real pleasure bringing this Royal Marines & #BlackHistory story to you all! #History #authorlife

A 'not to be missed' celebration of a marvellous charity, Waterloo Uncovered. This exhibition, 'The Life of a Waterloo Soldier' is on for 2 days only, next weekend, at the Royal Hospital Royal Hospital Chelsea next door to National Army Museum - so a chance to visit both the Royal Hospital & the NAM!

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Mahdists breaking into the British square at the Battle of Abu Klea (17 January 1885) - Richard Caton Woodville Jr.