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''The Royal Artillery Journal'' is published twice annually, and offers a more in-depth, scientific look at continuing operations and lessons that can be learned from previous campaigns, as well as features on memorable moments and characters from the Gunners' 300 year history.<ref> [http://www.army.mod.uk/19346.aspx Gunner Magazine] British Army website.</ref>
Originally published from 1858 as ''Minutes of Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution'', the name was changed in 1905. Both series of journals are available at the British Library.
==Garrison Gunners' life in India==
An Officer’s wife wrote
"Yesterday the Captain Sahib was on a board to award prizes to the gunners’ gardens at the Fish Market Fort [Lucknow] The men are given seeds and encouraged to grow vegetables and flowers, as the life of a garrison gunner in an Indian Fort is a very dull one."<ref> [http://www.archive.org/stream/mygardenincityg00cutgoog#page/n103/mode/2up ''My Garden in the City of Gardens: A Memory''], page 86 by Edith E Cuthell 1905 Archive.org. She was married to Army Officer Thomas G Cuthell, possibly in the Royal Artillery</ref>
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