The Crimean War most often comes into view through a patchwork of mythologies and controversies: the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Lady of the Lamp, the Thin Red Line...

This all-day conference will explore the Crimean War’s wide-ranging significance and consider its many cultural afterlives - in literature, history, visual art and the media - from the Victorian age to the present. It will also show how representations of the war vary between the different countries involved.

Conference venue: National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London SW3 4HT

Lunch and refreshments are included in the ticket price.

Ticket Prices

Standard: £15.00

Concession: £12.50

Please note: For concession tickets, please contact the Museum Shop: T: 020 7881 6600

Tickets can be purchased in the following ways:

Telephone: 020 7881 6600

Online: Use the booking form on www.nam.ac.uk

At the Museum

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Programme:

9.30-9.55  Registration, tea and coffee

9.55-10.00  Welcome

10.00-11.00  Keynote Speaker, Dr Trudi Tate (Cambridge): "Sebastopol Mon Amour, the Fall of a City"

Tea and coffee

Panel 1  Re-assessing National Capabilities: Military and Medical Legacies in Britain, France and Russia

11.20-11.40  Dr Howard Fuller (Wolverhampton): "Could Have, Would Have, Should Have? England"s "Great Armament", the Proposed Naval Assault upon Cronstadt and the Peace of 1856"

11.40-12.00  Dr Naumova Yulia (V&A Museum): "The Russian Medical Service During the Crimean War: New Perspectives"

12.00-12.20  Dr Mike Hinton (KCL): "Pitfalls in the Assessment of Hospitals: Can Lessons be learnt from the Crimean Campaign?"

12.20-12.40  Anthony Dawson (Leeds): "The French Army and British Army Reform"

12.40-13.00  Questions

Lunch

Panel 2  Cultural Constructions and Conflicts of Interest: Mid-Victorian Public and Private Responses to the Crimean War

14.00-14.20  Rachel Anchor (Leicester): "All the Queen"s Men? Royal Prerogative and the Politics of Sentiment"

14.20-14.40  Tai-Chun Ho (York): "The Afterlife of Thomas Campbell"s The Soldier"s Dream: from War-Broken Soldier to Patriotic Hero"

14.40-15.00  Dr Muireann O"Cinneide (Galway): "Charting Conflict in Alexander Kinglake"s Eothen and The Invasion of the Crimea"

15.00-15.20  Questions

Tea and coffee

Panel 3 Legacies:  New Forms and the War"s Afterlives

15.40-16.00  Prof Katie Hornstein (Dartmouth, NH): "The Crimean War, Henri Durand-Brager, and Reportage Across Media"

16.00-16.20  Hugh Small (author of Avenging Angel): "Florence Nightingale and Slum Clearance"

16.20-16.40  Prof Lara Kriegal (Indiana): "'Who Blew the Balaclava Bugle?' The Politics of Presence and the Afterlife of War"

16.40-17.00  Questions

17.00-17.30  Second Keynote Speaker, Louise Berridge: "The Crimean War and the Historical Novel Today"

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Contact:

National Army Museum

Royal Hospital Road

Chelsea

London SW3 4HT

Information line: 020 7881 6606

Telephone (switch board): 020 7730 0717

Fax: 020 7823 6573

Email us at info@nam.ac.uk