National Army Museum website

Some excellent resources and information is available on the National Amy Museum's website

http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/

Some useful links are...

Crimea
Florence Nightingale
Early photography (including Fenton)
Boer War
The Victoria Cross

WW1
Tanks -

Western Front 1918
Finding the Fallen
Specific teacher links for visits and resources - http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/education/secondary13.shtml

Nursing in the Crimea...

.. a recommendation from one of my students whislt comparing the roles of Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale.

Angels and Citizens,  British Women as Military Nurses, 1854-1914 By Anne Summers

Available to read on Google Books - click the title to read the book online. Also looks at the Boer War and WW1 for later parts of the course!

Thanks Isobel!

The Army of 1854

To understand the nature of the British Army in 1854 it is worth taking a look at the following clip.

British Army at Waterloo, 1815

Although this looks at the Army at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the Army of 1854 had not changed much since then. Therefore much can be learnt about how the army was commanded, fought, its tactics etc.

Another issue of the time was to do with the 'Purchasing of Commissions'. Find out more by following these links...
What was it?
How much did commissions cost?
Why was it becoming an issue?

An introduction to Britain c.1850

Did you know....

... that it was not until 1840 that Britain had a standard time zone. Before that times could vary across the country by as much as 10-15 minutes! Find out all about 'Railway time'

To find out more about life in Britain in 1850 the following site has loads of information on all aspect of Victorian Britain. It has something to interst everyone!

http://www.victorianweb.org/index.html

Key individuals in the Crimea

Click on the name to find out more...

Lord Raglan - Commander of British Army in the Crimea
Earl of Cardigan - Commander of the Light Brigade
Earl of Lucan - Commander of the Cavalry Division

Media...

William Howard Russell - Times reporter
Roger Fenton - photographer

Nurses...

Florence Nightingale
Mary Seacole
Mary Stanley

The Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) was instituted by Queen Victoria in 1856 to reward soldiers of any rank for acts of extreme bravery or gallant conduct 'in the face of the enemy'.

A total of 1,356 Victoria Crosses have been awarded since 1856 to 1,353 men.

Crimean War - 111 awards
Boer War - 78 awards
First World War - 628 awards

The youngest recipient of the VC was just 15 years old. The oldest was 62.

Read more about the History of the Victoria Cross here
Also see links

McNeill / Tulloch Report

A fascinating transcript of the McNeill/Tulloch Enquiry. This link gives a full account of the contents of the report into the supplying of the British Army in the Crimea.

http://crimeantexts.russianwar.co.uk/sources/reports/mnt00000.html

Florence Nightingale

Some useful sites looking at the role of Florence Nightingale.

A biography

The Florence Nightingale Museum

'New light on the Lady with the Lamp' - article from the Independent, 2005

Google Books - Florence Nightingale - Avenging Angel

Death at Scutari Hospitals

This site lists those who died at Scutari in the winter of 1854-1855. A shocking reminder of the horrors of medical treatment during the Crimean War.

http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/SCUTARI3.html

Roger Fenton Crimean War Photographs

Here is the complete collection of Fenton's photographs taken in the Crimea - all 263 of them!

Click here to see them.

A very useful website from the Crimean War Research Society.

Some very useful links of key facts and figures, and a good overview of the war.

Also available is a very useful chronology of the war.

http://cwrs.russianwar.co.uk/cwrsentry.html

Online Crimea exhibition

An online exhibition from The National Archives.

Using documents, images and text the exhibition provides a good overview of the war in the Crimea.

Also useful are the range of original documents which support the exhibition (great for source evaluation!)

A useful site for finding out about the battles of the Crimean and Boer Wars.

For example, The Battle of Balaclava