Today I thought I’d share this link to the BBC’s brilliant TV series The Queen’s Cavalry. I heartily recommend watching the entire episode – and indeed the whole series. I’ve recently been writing about recruits’ experiences of learning to ride in the Army Riding Schools during The Great War, and was struck (not for the first time) by how similar these modern soldiers’ experiences are to those of men over one hundred years ago. From the Riding Instructor Sergeant’s brilliant observations: “Are you sure that’s the right way round?” To the quite literal ‘ups and downs’ of Riding School. Absolutely brilliant. A reminder that horses are certainly not ‘hairy motorbikes’ (to quote myself!) and that learning to ride is not easy.
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Soldiers and their Horses 