New galleries due to open in London’s Imperial War Museum later this year will challenge commonly held views about the Holocaust, with a focus on the “ordinary” people who carried out the atrocity.
On the streets of London you can't throw a scone without hitting a dozen museums. One, though, isn't on the streets. It's below. The Churchill War Rooms are actually two museums in one. The Cabinet ...
The Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917 so we would never forget the horrors of modern war, but it is unsure how to remember Britain’s modern history. Britain is no longer imperial. The mass ...
On Sunday afternoon I went to South London’s Imperial War Museum to visit the Lord Ashcroft Gallery for the first time. There I found one of the finest, most thoughtful and sensitive historical ...
Few historic sites are as well-preserved as London’s Churchill War Rooms, which have benefited from their location in a fortified basement that housed a British government command center throughout ...
We have just returned from a wonderful vacation in London, England. As history enthusiasts, we visited a number of museums, one of which was the Imperial War Museum (IWM). Recently, there have been ...
Two photographs by Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, are part of an exhibition honoring Holocaust survivors at the Imperial War Museums in London. “While I have been lucky enough to meet two of ...
Photograph taken by photojournalist Tim Hetherington during the Libyan Revolution in Misrata, Libya, scanned from negatives at Imperial War Museum. Dean Moore Tim Hetherington was not a war ...
Two exhibits, in London and Edinburgh, look back at the anxiety-filled era — and draw eerie parallels to the present day. By Jillian Rayfield Reporting from London and Edinburgh “Even the safest room ...
Initially, only single women aged 20–30 were called up, but by mid-1943, almost 90 percent of single women and 80 percent of married women were employed in essential and often dangerous work including ...
The London museum scene may be eclipsed by the National Gallery, the British Museum and the V&A, but the city is crammed with museums, many small and quirky and worthy of your attention. From exhibits ...