Working with the National Army Museum: The Afterlife of the Crimea and the Benefits of a CDA
Journal: Journal of Victorian Culture
Year: 2018

In this article I reflect upon my experiences of working on an AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral award (CDA) between the University of Leicester and the National Army Museum (NAM). My ambitious brief was to explore the cultural afterlife of British involvement in the Crimean War (1854–1856), from the war’s outbreak to the present day. Using NAM’s vast Crimean War collection, my thesis explores the commercial, political and emotional appeal of the war through literature, objects and art. I argue