🎥Movie screening and Q&A with Sabaton 🎬
We're thrilled to announce that on Sunday, November 12th, we're hosting a special screening of "The War to End All Wars," a captivating film created by the Swedish metal band Sabaton.
"The War to End All Wars" weaves the real stories of World War I in a thought-provoking, emotionally charged narrative. It offers a historically accurate portrayal of the war soundtracked by music from Sabaton's album, also titled "The War to End All Wars."
But there's more! After the screening, Par and Joakim from Sabaton will join us for an engaging Q&A session.
🕐 Screening and Q&A Times:
1:00pm - 2:45pm
3:00pm - 4:45pm
Ticket Info:
🎫 Standard Ticket: £10.00
Members go for FREE!
Book tickets here: https://co.pulse.ly/5spthkt3ap
✨ About the "History Rocks" Project ✨
"History Rocks" is a unique charity project initiated by Sabaton, the globally acclaimed Swedish rock band. This project was developed to help museums worldwide gain visibility and support from a new, untapped audience of heavy metal fans.
Over 80 museums, both large and small, in 27 territories, have already opted to participate in this unprecedented global movie premiere but we're London exclusive.
📽️ Watch the trailer below ⬇️
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The Handley Page Hastings receives a quick dust at the RAF Midlands this morning 🧹🧽
The Hastings replaced the Avro York as the Royal Air Force’s standard long-range transport from 1948. Two squadrons of the new aircraft served alongside the York throughout the Berlin Airlift (Operation ‘Plainfare’), flying vital supplies into the city during the Soviet blockade.
From 1950, nineteen aircraft were converted for weather reconnaissance and flew in this role until the mid-1960s. Of these, eight became Hastings T5s, providing radar training for bomb-aimers at the Bomber Command Bombing School from 1959. By 1967 the Hastings had left first-line service, with the delivery of Hercules and Argosy transports. The last four served with the Radar Flight of No.230 Operational Conversion Unit (unofficially known as ‘1066 Squadron’) until 30 June 1977.
After taking care of family and friends, will you consider leaving a gift in your Will to us? Every gift, small or large, helps keep the Royal Air Force Museum flying.
Thanks to our partnership with Remember a Charity, we are now able to offer our supporters a free Will writing service through Bequeathed for Remember a Charity Week.
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Places are still available for John Wilson's British Sign Language tour of the Battle of Britain exhibition at our London site.
This free event is in British Sign Language only with no voice-over or captions and will take place on Saturday 9 July at 3.00pm.
Where: Battle of Britain Exhibition in H3,4,5
This tour is free of charge.
Please reserve your place now at: https://bit.ly/388lo35
This tour is for adults and older children (13+) – we would not recommend it for younger children.
This tour was previously scheduled for 25 June, Armed Forces Day, but has been rescheduled due to the planned national train strike on this date.
Join John Wilson for a British Sign Language tour of the Battle of Britain exhibition at our London site.
This free event is in British Sign Language only with no voice-over or captions and will take place on Thursday 26 May and Saturday 25 June at 3.00pm. Where: Battle of Britain Exhibition in H3,4,5
This tour is free of charge.
Please reserve your place now at: https://bit.ly/388lo35
This tour is for adults and older children (13+) – we would not recommend it for younger children.
Our current London art exhibition ‘In Air and Fire: War Artists, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz’ will be closing its doors to the public on 27 February.
In this short film art historian and novelist Dr Alicia Foster discusses women war artists, their struggle for recognition and the subjects they depicted.
Only around 10 percent of war artists whose works were commissioned or selectively purchased by Sir Kenneth Clark’s War Artists’ Advisory Committee were women.
Our exhibition seeks to address this with half of the display devoted to women’s war art – works acquired for the nation by the WAAC, as well as produced independently and privately. Such artists include Dame Laura Knight, Doris Zinkeisen, Eve Kirk, Olga Lehmann, Elva Blacker, Rachel Reckitt and Mary Viola Paterson. Interview by Curator Julia Beaumont-Jones.
To see works featured in the exhibition why not consult our Collections Online here: https://collections.rafmuseum.org.uk/