Episode 9 - Royal Armouries Interview.

CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words

English - August 22, 2020 22:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MB
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This podcast looks at anything and everything to do with the War of the three Kingdoms.

In this episode I speak to Keith Dowen, deputy-curator of the Royal Armouries, about the Littlecote Collection (the most important surviving civil war armoury) and the individual civil war artefacts in the collection such as:

Iconic armour which was used by both sidesBuff coats and Mortuary SwordsKing Charles I's armourOne 1970 prop from the film 'Cromwell' starring Sir Alec Guinness and Richard Harris

Hear more about Gustavus Adolphus's buff coat, and why that changed hands shortly after WWI. (not in the RA collection)

To find out more about the civil war, you can read various articles relating to it on my blog: http://www.allegianceofblood.com

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