Registered Charity 1210266 (England and Wales) for education in military history and firearms related (but not exclusively) to the Vickers machine gun.
South West, England
Joined August 2010
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If you would like to know more about the #VickersMG Collection and Research Association, what we do and how we approach military history, then take a look through the following images.
Get in touch with us to see how we could work with you, whether you’re a museum…
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SMALL ARMS SMALL TALK Episode 3 is now online on all your favourite podcast platforms. Watch the video on Patreon or YouTube. If you like what we do, please join the Vickers MG Supporter Corps.
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MORE MANUALS!! An eclectic set of manuals now on the Vickers MG Supporter Corps archive. Small Arms Training from Rhodesia, Garrison Artillery and Cavalry Training and Regimental Standing Orders for the Cameronians! Now online. If you like what we do, support us and get access.
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SMALL ARMS SMALL TALK: Episode 2 now online. Watch or listen to Rich chat to Jonathan of the @Royal_Armouries about running firearms collections and the tasks that come with that.
If you like what we do, please subscribe and join the Vickers MG Supporter Corps.
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Watch here: patreon.com/vickersmg/posts/…
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We've catalogued our archive onto the National Archives' Discovery Catalogue to make it more accessible. Most of our files are digitised and available through our online archive hosted on Patreon. Thousands of manuals, images, documents and more.
Why aren`t you searching for stuff in the National Archives ?
Some limited materials are digitised and can be downloaded for free, but even just finding files gives you a lot of information, you can go there any read or copy them, or pay someone to copy them for you.
This is how history books are written.
Go on. Type something in I dare you.
SMALL ARMS SMALL TALK: Episode 1 now online! Watch or listen @historicfirearm and Rich talk about the Bren and our Emma Gees Study Series. Find it on Spotify, Patreon, Apple and others WITHOUT ads but please join the Vickers MG Supporter Corps to help us. #militaryhistory
New manual uploads today! British, Canadian and New Zealand versions of Section Leading for the start of the Second World War, Yeomanry training in the First World War and even Sniping in the 1970s! All available on the #VickersMG Supporter Corps library.
#SmallArmsSmallTalk Episode 1 now online! Come and watch or listen to our new podcast. Available on Patreon, Spotify and Apple. Free of ads too.
If you like what we do, support us! Registered Charity 1210266.
The time has come! Our new podcast launches tomorrow morning (Thursday 29 October) and episodes will release weekly!
Check out the Vickers MG Supporter Corps on Patreon and it will soon be on other outlets too. If you like what we do, please support us.
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We’re working through some amazing archive content at the moment. This file is just one in a box of training papers from the Second World War.
It will probably take a month to describe in the The National Archives, UK Discovery catalogue, then scan, prepare for upload as searchable PDFs and share through our Patreon archive but it’ll be worth it!
I just flicked through this file again and @AndyAitcheson there are the training notes, and some other files, of either the adjutant or the OC of 155 Bde Supply Coy and then the 52 (L) Div Ammn Coy RASC as well! Even the Bde accounts are there.
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The current box is from the Alistair Taylor legacy that we are managing and will add to the many thousands of documents we already have online. Our online archive is accessible through a subscription to patreon.com/vickersmg
How much different it is to the courses taught now?
Our latest video is now available: The Vickers MG Exhibition.
If you couldn’t come and see it in person The Pavilion Bisley - Guest Rooms, Bisley, Woking then this video has @historicfirearm show you around the Exhibition. Head to our YouTube channel to watch.
