NEWS

Military museum guide published

25 January 2007

The latest edition of the guidebook, Military Museums in the UK, published in association with the Army Museums Ogilby Trust (AMOT), includes comprehensive region-by-region details on over 140 regimental and service-related museums throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

In addition to clearly presented information on collections, facilities, opening hours and directions, there is a separate section covering the principal Service Museums and prestigious national collections, as well as a guide to the succession of regimental titles from 1881 up to the present day.

The Army Museums Ogilby Trust is a registered charity founded in 1954 by Colonel Robert Ogilby to support and promote the regimental and corps museums of the British Army. This guide is a natural extension of that role and complements the Trust’s web site (www.armymuseums.org.uk), which not only lists all the museums but includes useful advice on ancestor research and regimental bibliographies for genealogists and military historians.

In his foreword, the Trust’s patron, HRH The Duke of York, says: “Military museums across the country are a rich source of historical information and they provide unique insights into the inspirational deeds of courage, bravery and good- humoured fortitude that have characterised the British Army through the centuries.”

This spiral bound paperback folds flat for easy reference and is the essential guide for museum visitors and military historians.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

Imprint: Third Millennium Publishing, London.
Editor: Colin Sibun, Director, AMOT
Publication date: 1 March 2007 / RRP: £8.99 / ISBN: 1 903942 61 6
Specification: Paperback / spiral-bound, 96 pages, 210 x 148 mm, portrait
Review copy requests: Contact Michael Jackson, Third Millennium Publishing on 020 7336 0144 mj@tmiltd.com / www.tmiltd.com

Launch events: 1 March – National Army Museum, London (6.30 - 8.30pm)
8 March – Archers’ Hall, Edinburgh (6.30 - 8.30pm)
Attendance requests: Contact Neil Burkey, Third Millennium Publishing on 020 7336 0144 nb@tmiltd.com

Other recent and forthcoming TMP publications include Sandhurst: A Tradition of Leadership; The Guards – Excellence in Action; The Hidden Hall: Portrait of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; The Lair of the Leopard (with the Francis Kyle Gallery); Imagine yesterday … today (winners of the Garden Photographer of the Year competition) Durham Cathedral: Light of the North; Christ Church, Oxford: Portrait of the House and The University of Cambridge: An 800th Anniversary Portrait.

For further information contact Michael D Jackson, Marketing Manager, Third Millennium Information Ltd, 2-5 Benjamin St, EC1M 5QL. Tel: +44 (0)207 336 0144. Email: mj@tmiltd.com. Website: www.tmiltd.com