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History repeats itself at Highlanders’ Museum

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Title: History repeats itself at Highlanders’ Museum

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Synopsis: A remarkably detailed book of sketches drawn when one of the precursors to the Highlanders Regiment was posted to Afghanistan in 1881 has been rediscovered.

Release: There are over 8,000 documents and books within the Archive of the Highlanders Museum at Fort George. Most describe in detail the actions that the Regiments have undertaken over the past 300 years, which is invaluable for people researching their ancestors or for people with an interest in military History.

As the old axiom says, history repeats itself, and this never truer than with Military History. This was demonstrated very clearly when Dr Alix Powers Jones, Director of the Highlanders’ Museum recently uncovered an incredibly detailed 132 year old sketch book of the Afghan landscape drawn by an officer of the “78th Highland Regiment of Foot. He had been posted to the country from 1879 to 1881 to look after the communications infrastructure in the country and endured an extremely cold winter in tents at Kandahar.

Dr Powers Jones said, “this is a truly amazing book that shows the cyclical nature of conflicts flaring up in the same geographical areas throughout history. The landscapes that the book contains have changed very little despite the passage of so much time.”

The uncovering of this book now is especially interesting because THE HIGHLANDERS 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland are set to return to the war torn state next year to take part in Operation HERRICK 14.

This fabulous book can be viewed on special prior request at the Highlanders Museum in Fort George near Inverness.

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For further information or to arrange an interview, please contact: Peter Guthrie, Development Director, The Highlanders’ Museum, Fort George, Near Inverness, 01667 460 466 www.thehighlandersmuseum.com

The Highlanders’ Museum tells the history of the Highlanders Regiments for the last 300 years until the present day. It is home to the largest Regimental collection outside of London and attracts over 55,000 visitors per year.

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