There's been much talk about the royal military uniform in the countdown towards the queen's funeral - who can wear them and who can't. But just what is the importance of this uniform, and how exactly ...

Yet uniforms were not always like that, in design or purpose. As Allan Mallinson explains in The Making of The British Army, it was in the New Model Army, Britain’s first standing army formed in 1645, ...

Some of the British Royal family have served in the ... Why do Royal family members wear military uniforms? The members of the Royal Family who have been granted titles for service or duties ...

“The 19th century was a period of small colonial wars, and the British Army learned a lot out at the edges of the empire. They learned a lot about uniform and how better to be strategic—how to ...

The video, called “Getting Dressed in World War I,” follows a British Army soldier of the Artists ... on any battlefield in a scratchy wool uniform, wearing such an outfit in the cold, wet ...