Comforting things and military deployment: Museum’s call for objects and testimony

The museum team are seeking testimony and potentially objects as part of an envisaged display around the nature and importance of care and ‘comforting things’ in the context of military lives, especially deployment. The display’s lead, Dr Robert MacKinnon, explains: "We have a deeply affecting and timeless historical collection of items associated with how, why and with what soldiers have felt and done comfort, but we are keen to capture more recent narratives, particularly important because of where we hope this envisaged display will go. Besides being a display on care and comfort, we hope it will do care and comforting work for ex-soldiers and their loving ones."