The Serving Soldier
See the collectionThe Archive is now live and will shortly be complimented by a video/podcast of a performance inspired by the collection.
The Serving Soldier will provide first time digital access to unique and nationally significant archives held in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. As such it will support demonstrable internal and external demand. In taking the theme of the multi-faceted role of the soldier, it will expose a proportion of little known material (hidden stories) and provide a body of material of contemporary relevance to researchers, students and today’s serving soldiers.
Dissemination will be supported by a commissioned dramatisation which will be tested in an academic setting and the Joint Services Command and Staff College and filmed and made available as a podcast. The podcast will be used in conferences, seminars and captured for teaching platforms to encourage use of archival material.
The project will deliver:
- 22,000 images of original visual and archival documents to support cross-disciplinary study
- Themed collections on the role of the soldier as cultural recorder, scientific innovator, colonial administrator, political scapegoat and veteran
- Tested script and podcast exemplar for bringing archival material to life in a contemporary setting for use in teaching
- Fully-costed example of the digitisation of a multi-origin private archive
