The 50 museums cover the whole of Britain, from the King's Own Scottish Borderers Museum, Berwick upon Tweed, to the Spitfire & Hurricane Museum, Ramsgate. This ensures local coverage everywhere.John Sadler lectures at the National Army Museum, Imperial War Museum North, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and elsewhere. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. In the case of the museums he visited and the objects he writes about, they were already known to him. He has extensive connections with the military museum community in Britain and the MoD.If all the strands of 'British' were not warrior races, would we just be that nation of shopkeepers someone once called us?