Podcasts by Bearskins, Bayonets and Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum
Inspiring and amusing stories from the museum dedicated to the five regiments of the Sovereign's Foot Guards. As well as describing the artefacts in this great collection of regimental ephemera, the Director of this brilliant museum gives some insights into the museum, its background, the people who work there and the challenges involved in running an independent museum in these troubled times. Stories which will inspire, astound and amuse.
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 20 from 2020-10-15T12:00
Continuing with the virtual tour of the museum's galleries, this week the Director looks at three relatively recent campaigns namely, the Falklands and the two Gulf Wars.
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 19 from 2020-09-09T02:00
Due to a bit of a health issue, the Director has been a bit of a drain on the National Health Service and has been nipping in and out of hospital over the last few weeks (for which he offers his...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 18 from 2020-08-20T16:00
Finishing of the Second World War and moving on to post war operations, this week the Director looks at two very different Guards officers.....both highly competent and both very brave.....but b...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 17 from 2020-07-27T06:00
Concluding the third instalment of the Guards in the Second World War, this week the Director examines the history of The Guards Armoured Division from its inception in 1941 through to its disba...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 16 from 2020-07-23T07:00
Continuing the story of the five regiments of Foot Guards in World War 2, this week the Director looks at the move from North Africa into mainland Europe. He follows the exploits of these remar...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 15 from 2020-07-18T07:00
This week the Director starts the massive subject of the Guards in the Second World War.....tracing the five regiments from the outbreak of the war in September 1939 to the end of the North Afri...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 14 from 2020-07-05T02:00
In this episode, the Director looks at the period between the two world wars and talks about the abdication of King Edward VIII. He also describes the fantastic model of the Scots Guardsman Loc...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 13 from 2020-06-26T03:00
'The loudest voice in the British Army!'.....That was the reputation gained by Regimental Sergeant Major 'Tibby' Brittain over a career which spanned nearly 40 years. This w...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 12 from 2020-06-17T06:00
The war to end all wars.....or so they thought at the time. This week the Director continues the virtual tour of the museum and focuses on the Great War. Four years of mud, blood and tears in ...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 11 from 2020-06-10T19:00
With the annual Birthday Parade also known as Trooping the Colour cancelled this year due to the pandemic, this week the Director has arranged an interview with the man who usually co-ordinates ...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 10 from 2020-06-05T02:00
The virtual tour of the collection continues this week with the end of the Victorian age and the advent of the Edwardian era. We have a war in South Africa and the establishment of the Irish Gu...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 9 from 2020-05-28T15:00
A new departure this week! For the first time the Director has a guest on the podcast. Roddy Gow, OBE is here to talk a little about his father, General Sir Michael Gow who was an eminent and ...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 8 from 2020-05-19T06:00
Continuing the virtual tour of the museum galleries, this week the Director shares stories about the Crimean campaign and the Sudan campaign. These two expeditions were extraordinarily tough fo...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 7 from 2020-05-13T04:00
This week the Director shares readings from the autobiography of a former Guards officer who was perhaps atypical of those who usually were commissioned into the Foot Guards.
Derek Bond was ...
Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 6 from 2020-05-04T04:00
Waterloo! Probably the most transformational battle in annals of the Guards. This week we look at the Peninsula campaign and the long-running battle between Wellington and Napoleon Bonapart fo...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 5 from 2020-04-27T06:00
This week the Director focuses on the life of a General who served for nearly 50 years, who met Wellington and was present at that great man's funeral. General Sir George Higginson commend...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 4 from 2020-04-20T04:00
This week the Director looks at the next stage in the virtual tour of the museum galleries and describes the elevation of John Churchill of The First Guards to become the first Duke of Marlborou...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 2 from 2020-04-13T07:00
In this episode, the Director describes the location of the museum and its adjacency to both The Guards Chapel and to the Flanders Fields Memorial Garden. He then takes you into the museum and ...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 1 from 2020-04-13T07:00
This is the first episode in a new podcast recorded by Andrew Wallis, MBE, DL who is the Director of The Guards Museum. The forced closure of the museum due to the COVID-19 pandemic has acted a...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 3 from 2020-04-13T07:00
In this episode the Director pauses the virtual tour of the museum to share some stories from one of the many wonderful books in the museum library. This week he shares some tales about Lt. Col...
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Bearskins, Bayonets&Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 2 from 2020-04-13T07:00
In this episode, the Director describes the location of the museum and its adjacency to both The Guards Chapel and to the Flanders Fields Memorial Garden. He then takes you into the museum and ...
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