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Five free galleries on what a soldier's life has actually been, for 350 years.
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Free, purpose-built beside the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, and organised by question rather than by war. Formation covers where the British Army came from, how it is put together and the traditions it has kept through more than three and a half centuries of unbroken service. Soldier is the one people stay in: what joining up, serving and coming home have been like, told through soldiers' own words and their possessions, which are often startlingly ordinary. Global Role follows the Army abroad from empire to now, largely through objects soldiers brought back and what those say about the encounters. Conflict in Europe traces the fighting on the Continent from the 1700s and what it did to Britain; Army at Home covers home service since the 1600s, from flood and strike to ceremonial. A study centre and a play space sit alongside them.
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