A nice mix or articles and eye candy ... a centrefold of figures from the BFFS AGM Show which I really must go to one year (it's only up the road in the West Midland - just it clashes with one of the traditional wargame events) ...
And two good articles: ... one by Simon Hoggett on the Mohr 'Gypsy' encampment - Das Zigeunerlager' - and a darker reading of its relationship to changing, sometimes controversial, attitudes to social minorities.
... the other, close to my interests, of course, is an attempt to trace/catalogue the Otto Gottstein dioramas of great events from British military history (which were originally displayed in the Royal United Services Museum until broken up) ...
A third of them ended up in Calgary apparently ... Quebec is in the Eastbourne Redoubt (Royal Sussex Regiment Museum) ... 'Plassey' is in the Museum of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (Dorchester) ... the Field of the Cloth of Gold is apparently lost.
Anyway, here's the list RUSI and Gottstein had as Great British Military Events ... 1: the Landing of the Romans in 55BC; 2: the Battle of Hastings; 3: the Storming of Acre; 4: the Battle of Crecy; 5: the Field of the Cloth of Gold; 6: Elizabeth reviewing the troops at Tilbury; 7: the Battle of Marston Moor; 8: the Battle of Blenheim; 9: the Battle of Plassey; 10: the Battle of Quebec; 11: the Old Guard at Waterloo; 12: the Charge of the Light Brigade; 13: the Battle of Ulundi; 14: the Battle of Flers; 15: the D-Day Landings in Normandy.
Well, a great list (though today one might expect Agincourt over Crecy, Naseby rather than Marston Moor ... and think the Tudor episodes are more for dioramic splendour than miltary prowess) ...
Big Lee (BLMA blog) has this photo from the Eastbourne Redoubt ...
(the Battle of Quebec ... cropped and re-sized by me from Lee's posting)
John Greenwood (Greenwood & Ball) mentions his work on the the project.
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