Kevin Asplin is a professional military genealogist and military author The Ogilby Trust supports and promotes the regimental and corps museums of the British Army. The) has been a regular bookmark for military historians for years – the place to find out what museums are where, and so a useful directory for when you’re ready for a deep dive into a regiment’s history. The Ogilby Muster () is a relatively new sister site, launched late last year. This centralised hub enables you to search digitised material from across members’ collections. Of course, regimental museums vary a great deal in terms of the amounts of archival material they preserve. And over the years many have made finding aids, transcriptions, indexes, images and other digitised content available. The Ogilby Muster, for the first time, offers a ‘one-stop shop’ where you can search for references in catalogued documents, private papers and diaries, photos and maps, regimental histories and more.
