In August, the head of Royal Air Force recruitment resigned, reportedly due to a focus on hitting “impossible” diversity targets. I’m always reminded of these mixed messages, whenever a row erupts about diversity in the British military. That hardly seemed to concur with the diversity message, but Pragnell included it. Meanwhile, one sitter liked the idea of a soldier servant pouring him a glass of champagne while he stared imperiously in the other direction. Notably, both the black officers - one Ghanaian, the other Zimbabwean - spoke with received pronunciation. There was a strong equine theme.Īs a message, the scene was a mixed one: we have black people, it said. Some eschewed uniform altogether, coming in polo kit, hunting gear and Ascot tails. The 25 subjects wore a variety of dress, from ceremonial “state kit” with its gleaming breastplate to the scarlet bum-freezer jacket of mess kit, service dress, or combats. Olver explained the concept: “We’ve got these two women here, and we’ve got a Sikh and we’ve got two black guys.” The sitting took place in May 2008 at the barracks south of the Serpentine. The resulting image also embodied the British Army’s confused attitude to diversity in the 21st century. In time, the huge 3m-by-1m painting almost drove her insane. The young painter, Louise Pragnell, agreed to take on the project. In common with other infantry and armoured units at the time, there were still no women formally within the regiment, but there were some working with it, including a vet. The unit now had black and Sikh officers. The new painting was to take the same format, but was meant to showcase how the Household Cavalry - traditionally the socially “smartest” section of the British Army - had changed. It showed an all-male, blue-blooded ensemble, in elaborate dress. In the officers’ mess at Hyde Park Barracks, there hung a depiction of the regiment’s officers from 1857. Ed Olver, a captain, explained that he was looking for an artist to update a nineteenth-century canvas. As the section of the British Army that performs ceremonial duties with horses, the regiment is often judged on appearances. As we take up arms as the old warrior, join us in the brutal and violent quest of No Place for Bravery on today’s episode of Indie-licious, going live shortly.In 2008, at a birthday party in Fulham, a 26-year-old aspiring portrait painter met the adjutant of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment. By linking that subscription up to your Twitch account through Prime Gaming, you’ll get a free Twitch subscription each month to use as you please. It helps us out a lot and you can do it for free with Amazon Prime. If you’d like to further support our livestreams further, then consider following and subscribing to the Shacknews Twitch channel. Your viewership helps to keep these livestreams alive and strong, pushing us to make them better with each event. You can also watch just below.Īs always, we’d like to thank those who tune into ShackStream projects like Indie-licious. Join us as we go live with No Place for Bravery on this week’s episode of Indie-licious, going live on the Shacknews Twitch channel at 1:30 p.m. Now, Thorn must take up the blade again to travel the ruined and violent land of Dewr in search of her, opening old memories and engaging in brutal, fast-paced top-down action and combat along the way. He thought he was done with combat, but then his daughter is stolen away. In the game, players take on the role of Thorn, an ex-soldier worn down by numerous battles and wars. It became available on Nintendo Switch and PC on September 22, 2022. No Place for Bravery comes to us from the developer Glitch Factory and publisher Ysbryd Games. When a warrior’s purpose in life is war and fighting, what else is there? Even when the violence has grinded said warrior down, what can they do to make the world a better place? We aim to peek and see if that question has an answer in No Place for Bravery: This week’s game on the Indie-licious ShackStream.
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