The Ministry for History

21/12/2024

27/11/2024

Join us for some exceptional history at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and learn about some of the fascinating figures of the Company Raj - some reputable, and some less so! 🇬🇧

Portraits of the Raj: The Trial of Warren Hastings, & Battle of Plassey, National Portrait Gallery

We're exploring the National Portrait Gallery to find our favourite 18th century paintings to discuss including portraits of Warren Hastings, Sir Eyre Coote,...

25/10/2024

Exactly 170 years ago today, October 25th, 1854, at the Battle of Balaclava, the 93d Highlanders, standing as a “thin red streak tipped with steel” repulsed a Russian cavalry charge with aimed long range rifle fire alone.

It marked a paradigm shift in modern warfare, illustrating the power of a new infantry weapon — the rifle-musket — on the same day and just a few miles away from the “glorious catastrophe,” the Charge of the Light Brigade.

When can their glory fade?

14/09/2024

“The little cylinder is held before a die, precisely of the shape and dimensions of the Enfield bullet; it is made to take the prescribed form, and is marked on the base, with the broad arrow, proclaiming to all whom it may concern, that the diminutive but formidable missile before them, is the exclusive property of Her Majesty.”
— Hans Busk, “Hand-Book for Hythe” 1860

The shop is open today, so if you’re in the Gettysburg area and need to refresh your supply of Her Majesty’s diminutive but formidable missiles, they’ll be here waiting for you.

03/09/2024

26/08/2024

https://youtu.be/wy7oMFfcKMw

The small town of Franklin, Connecticut has a problem: It's Town Greens are Missing. Where were they, what happened to them, and why were they important?SCRI...

20/08/2024

Recently, the co-founders Daz and Gina Denham of Monuments for UK Veterans of the American Civil War Association appeared on Dan Snow's History Hit podcast to discuss British veterans of the American Civil War. The podcast is available via Apple Podcasts, so be sure to check it out.

Listen here 👇
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/british-veterans-of-the-american-civil-war/id1042631089?i=1000665134792

31/07/2024

29/07/2024

https://youtu.be/VDogXCvkejc?si=Drncpgt9leJhGjqU

Today we have the privilege of giving you a VIP tour of Gettysburg National Military Park's Cannon Shop, where the park restores and maintains the thousands ...

13/06/2024

With Darren Rawlings of Emerging Civil War at the grave of Arthur Fremantle in Brighton, England! 🇬🇧🇺🇸

27/05/2024

In this episode of American Civil War & UK History Podcast, Daz was joined by the author and producer of Life in Pictures Dave Danielson to discuss John A. Logan also known as Black Jack Logan. John had a very successful Civil War career in the Western Theater in the Army of the Tennessee finishing the War with the rank of Major General in 1868 John would become the Grand Army of the Republic Commander in Chief and would organised the first national observance of Memorial Day which occurred on May 30, 1868. Then known as Decoration Day, it was a holiday to honor the Union soldiers who had died during the American Civil War.

Watch or listen here 👇
https://darrenscivilwarpag8.wixsite.com/acwandukhistory/post/the-life-of-john-a-logan-with-dave-danielson

27/05/2024

How Civil War Veterans created Memorial Day- Memorial Day in the US began as Decoration Day, a holiday commemorated by the Grand Army of the Republic, the fr...

07/05/2024

This one is going to make a lot of people really mad… I can’t wait to read the comments.

Took me months to get this done, and I am not totally satisfied with it, but in true Moltkean style, better a good video posted now than a perfect video posted later on.

Link to 57 minutes of a nerd droning on and on about muskets and stuff:
https://youtu.be/PxnurUTqWxM

01/05/2024