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@OxonMuseum @WallingfordMus @AirAssaultMuse @artukdotorg @PRA_Airborne @IWMDuxford Interestingly, an ever-so-slightly different version of this painting is on display here too! A gift to the old Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Museum from Major John Howard in 1983
#HamandJam
#MuseumWeek #SexualityMW #Art
While popular pin-ups of the time, like Norman Pett's Jane series played heavily on sexuality, other wartime artists presented less salacious depictions of the many women in the Armed Forces in WW2 - like James Walker Tucker's Letters From Home
#didyouknow soldiers of #Oxfordshire & #Buckinghamshire Light Infantry were among the first to land in #Normandy as part of #DDay #onthisday 1944
In the early hours of 6th June, they landed by glider and captured the Bénouville and Orne bridges
#Pegasus #CoupdeMain #HamandJam
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Did you know a Dragon shot down the first enemy airship over Britain during WW1?
Leefe Robinson is just one former Dragon School pupil whose story you'll hear in #SkippersWar, streaming 7pm, 7 December
WATCH HERE: https://t.co/4QsFinDkjE
#Oxford #FWW #WW1 #VC #OPS
Johnny-come-lately to the intelligence business?
You can still catch up with the archived video of last night's #LockdownLecture including highlights from the Live Q&A with Dr. Chris Moran on our site now!
#SpyOxfordshire #JamesBond
https://t.co/AOJW6NoPjc
Time is of the essence, tonight's #LockdownLecture The Secret Life of Ian Fleming goes live in 10 minutes!
WATCH: https://t.co/Y6rxm2f672
Was Ian Fleming just a Johnny-come-lately to the intelligence business without access to any great secrets, or at the sharp end of the spy war?
Find out in The Secret Life of Ian Fleming - #LockdownLecture and live Q&A with Chris Moran 26 April 2021
https://t.co/3CWbNBVGuY
To get us thinking about our upcoming #Waterloo lockdown lecture with historian Gareth Glover, we have put together a blog post looking at a couple of Waterloo era uniform items in our collection! Take a look here: https://t.co/ddMZFgTvxC