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LIVING HISTORY DAY: ENGLISH CIVIL WARS

Muster your troops and charge down to the museum to experience life in the 17th century during the English Civil Wars.

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09 February

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Did you know?

Is newer better?

The last cast-iron British smoothbore cannon, the 68 pounder, was 8 inches (203 mm), the same calibre as the heaviest guns of King Henry VIII three hundred years earlier. Their performance was probably not very different either!