'Soldiers of the Queen' is the journal of the Victorian Military Society, published quarterly. It is in an A4-glossy format of 32 pages, liberally illustrated and including a wide range of articles, both scholarly and of general interest, letters and correspondence, and a selection of book reviews covering the most relevant titles for our period. The latest edition, issue 135 (December 2008) is available now to members Cover Illustration: European officer of the Bundlecund Legion in review orderby Ackermann, 1847

The Victorian Military Society is an international society whose principal aim is to encourage and foster the study of military aspects of the Victorian era. The dates of study are 1837 to 1914, to include the period between the end of Queen Victoria's reign and the beginning of World War I.

The Society publishes a quarterly journal, a newsletter and holds an annual military fair. As well as this the Society also encompasses the Anglo-Boer War Memorials Project and several specialist study groups, such as the Sudan Group, the Wargames Group, and  the award winning Diehards reenactment group.

The Diehard Company

The unit has a fifty strong membership and we are members of the Victorian Military Society, an internationally respected organisation that covers the period 1837 to 1914. Founded in 1993 we represent a number of images of the late Victorian Soldier, both on campaign and no home service.

We normally portray a section of the 1st Battalion, the Middlesex Regiment on home service in the 1880's, but also can portray infantrymen from the Zulu War of 1879 and the Boer War of 1899-1902. The section is authentically equipped and uniformed (our tailors and leatherworkers supply national museums with items of our equipment for their handling collections) and portrays as accurately as possible the look, drill and other activities of the British Army of the time.