The 11th of August commemorates the Battle of Maldon of 991 AD, where the Norse Vikings engaged in battle with the Ealdorman of Essex, Byrhtnoth, and his Anglo-Saxon forces, near the town of Maldon in...
My name is Harry Baker and I have worked at the Combined Military Service Museum (CMSM) for the last few months as their MA placement student from the University of Essex. Before I came to...
The Combined Military Services Museum is proud to commemorate D-Day on the 6th of June, 79 years after the event became one of the most important military operations in British military history. Towards the end...
The Combined Military Services Museum is home to a very rare and priceless piece of history. A Viking sword unearthed from Heybridge at the end of the causeway, which dates to the Battle of Maldon...
The Iranian Embassy siege took place from 30 April to 5 May 1980, after a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy on Prince's Gate in South Kensington, London. The gunmen, Iranian Arabs...
The mission was to place Limpet Mines on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour, 62 miles along the Gironde River in France. On the night of 7th December 1942, five Cockleshell Canoes set off from Submarine...
At the Combined Military Services Museum, research resides in the heart of our team, working to catalogue and sort through the many interesting documents that we have in our archive. Just today, we found this...
The Combined Military Services Museum is proud to be a partner of a podcast channel run by one of our research volunteers Jonathan Brown. Tune in to "History Between the Lines" which features guest speakers...
Lady Jane Grey (c. 1537 – 12 February 1554), later known as Lady Jane Dudley (after her marriage) and as the "Nine Days' Queen", was an English noblewoman who claimed the throne of England and...
February 8th marks the date on which Queen Mary I of Scotland – more commonly known as Mary, Queen of Scots – was executed at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire in 1587. As the only surviving heir...
"Thoughts on the Armistice” By J.W.C- James Wilkinson Campbell of the Durham Light Infantry The spectre which had loosened itself with such ominous intent upon civilisation in the summer of 1914, had for more...
On this day, 19th August 1934, the German public voted 90% in favour of Adolf Hitler becoming Fuhrer (Leader) of Germany, combining the powers of Chancellor and President, President Paul von Hindenburg having died in...
