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    Guest Post: West Indian soldiers in the First World War

    Arthur Torrington, 11 March 2013
    Arthur Torrington is one of three external specialist researchers on the Whose remembrance? project. Arthur's research looked at the contribution of West Indian soldiers to the First World War which he writes about here.
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    Guest Post: South Asian seamen in the two world wars

    Ansar Ahmed Ullah, 4 March 2013
    Ansar Ahmed Ullah, a member of the Swadhinata Trust, is one of three external specialist researchers on the Whose remembrance? project. Ansar writes here about his research into the experiences of South Asian seamen in the two world wars.
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    Whose Remembrance? project workshops

    Emily Fuggle, 14 February 2013
    As Project Manager of the AHRC sponsored Whose remembrance? project, I was responsible for drawing up the programme for the two workshops we held in the summer of 2012 - to enable both historians and museum professionals who have been researching aspects of this history to share their work.
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    Introducing the Whose Remembrance? Project

    L.Maxwell, 29 January 2013
    For a large part of 2012 the Research Department has been working on an AHRC-sponsored scoping study called Whose Remembrance?. The study asked the IWM to identify whose stories were being included in the history of the First and Second World Wars and how this was affecting patterns of remembrance.
  • Blog: Second World War

    Bolts from the blue

    M.Whitmore, 31 December 2012
    Barely 150 metres from Imperial War Museum Londonis the site of the most destructive explosion in Lambeth during the Second World War, which killed 43 people. Just before 8.30pm on the night of Thursday 4 January 1945 a huge explosion destroyed an apartment building, Surrey Lodge, on the corner of Kennington Road and Lambeth Road.
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    Restoring the First World War film The Battle of the Ancre and Advance of the Tanks (1917)

    T.Haggith, 22 November 2012
    The Battle of the Ancre and Advance of the Tanks (1917) is a little known masterpiece of British non-fiction cinema that documents the winter stages of the Somme campaign on the Western Front.
  • Blog: First World War

    Saving Lives

    S.Robbins, 22 October 2012
    As part of a major project supported by the Wellcome Trust, I catalogued some of the IWM’s medical collections which had hitherto been largely unavailable to researchers.
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    Prisoners of War on the Sumatra Railway

    L.Oliver, 25 September 2012
    February this year saw the seventieth anniversary of the Fall of Singapore on 15th of that month 1942. Between June of that year and October 1943, over 60,000 Allied troops would be forced to labour as prisoners of war (POWs) on the Burma-Thailand railway.
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    Cataloguing IWM medical collections

    S.Robbins, 4 September 2012
    One of the most rewarding aspects of my work since I joined the Research Department has been cataloguing IWM’s medical collections.
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    Film Archivists in China: the 2012 FIAF congress

    D.Walsh, 24 July 2012
    The collective noun for a gathering of film archivists? A vault? A screening? The more cynical might say a confusion. Certainly, at the annual congress of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) held in Beijing in May.
  • Blog: Second World War

    Rosie Newman’s Britain at War In Colour DVD

    J.Fish, 3 July 2012
    Britain at War, filmmaker Rosie Newman’s film of Britain during the Second World War, is one of the most important amateur films in our collection, notable for its content and the fact that it was shot, almost entirely, in colour.
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    SOE and Mussolini's Italy

    Roderick Bailey, 25 June 2012
    The Special Operations Executive was a secret British organization set up in 1940 to encourage resistance and carry out sabotage in enemy-occupied territory.

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