Doug Stuart offers free-of-charge educational talks and demonstrations based on his extensive research and collections of military equipment and artefacts. These talks present the opportunity to learn about history by handling original objects, and better understand how equipment and technology shaped these great conflicts.
Doug has more than thirty years experience as a collector and researcher, as well as being a qualified Army Cadet instructor and County Public Relations Officer for Cambridgeshire Army Cadet Force. Doug regularly attends historical re-enactments, takes part in remembrance events and travels to battlefields around Europe. He also provides military advice, props and costumes for theatrical productions including 'Journey's End' (EADS production 2018) 'Girl in the Glass' (Combined Actors of Cambridge, 2018) and 'Sailor Beware' (EADS 2019).
Doug's collections include an extensive variety of items recovered from WW1 battlefields, such as shrapnel, grenades, shells, bayonets, rifles, footwear and personal items, including items he has found himself. All items are completely and demonstratively safe and in compliance with the law, and Doug is CRB checked.
His Second World War collections includes representations of full equipment carried by British, German, American, Soviet and Japanese soldiers, and items from the Home Front in Britain and Germany. It includes a collection of items salvaged from German U-Boat U-534, such as one of its one-man lifeboats, a complete tool kit from the engine room, and many personal items recovered from the wreck.
