Allen Packwood is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre. He is a qualified archivist and was co-curator of ‘Churchill and the Great Republic’, a ...

Opening on Remembrance Day in 2023, artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE created The Shining Lights of Service, a unique, multi-coloured light installation commemorating the Indian Hospital at the ...

The Third Battle of Ypres - also known as Passchendaele - has shaped perceptions of the First World War on the Western Front. Fought between July and November 1917, both sides suffered heavy ...

Wall mounted, polished dark wooden board, with wide, raised, border of same material. Each corner has rounded corners. Top edge has slightly pediment shape. Text is shown in gilt paint. The lettering ...

Walk the top-secret corridors and glimpse what life would have been like during the tense days and nights of the Second World War. Join historians Allen Packwood and Kevin Ruane and explore Winston ...

On Tuesday 5th November the Collections Access and Research team will be participating in the 10th Annual History Day, held at Senate House. History Day is a day for researchers, students, and ...

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Wednesday 27 December to Sunday 23 February 2025. IWM Duxford’s winter spotlight exhibition tells the story of the aircraft and aircrew who fought in the Battles of France and Britain over the summer ...

Britain invaded Eastern Africa in multiple stages in the last years of the nineteenth-century. They conquered many different peoples and destroyed traditional societies which had existed for centuries ...

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IWM North’s architecture delivers an award-winning immersive experience. Walk through a timeline of history from the First World War to the present day. Explore over 2,000 objects and immerse yourself ...