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    Guest Post: In the footsteps of a war artist

    Angela Weight, 28 May 2012
    Our guest blogger, Angela Weight, was formerly Keeper of Art at Imperial War Museums from 1981 to 2005. Angela curated the exhibition War at Sea currently showing at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery until 31 October 2012.
  • Blog

    Illuminating our history

    A.Cundy, 16 May 2012
    The History of IWM Workshop, held at IWM London on 2 May 2012, brought together IWM staff, external researchers and several of IWM's AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) students to review the current state of research into IWM and discuss avenues for further investigation.
  • Blog

    Ori Gersht explored

    S.Bevan, 26 April 2012
    For a large part of the last year I worked on the exhibition Ori Gersht: This Storm is What We Call Progress which has now been on display at IWM London for three months.
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    The BBC Monitoring Service archive and the 1980 Moscow Olympics

    C.Deal, 19 April 2012
    My PhD involves researching into how the Soviet Union portrayed the 1980 Moscow Olympic boycott to the world, via the medium of shortwave radio.
  • Blog

    Reviewing First World War studies with Australian colleagues

    Damon Cleary, 16 March 2012
    As a Collaborative Doctoral Award student working on IWM’s depiction of the First World War, I had the opportunity to attend a one-off collaborative research symposium, hosted by the IWM, on 10 February 2012.
  • Blog

    Fictional Acknowledgements

    R.Smither, 2 March 2012
    How do we ‘get’ history?  If not at first hand, then where do the people we get it from find it themselves?  I have been exploring the ways in which other people’s research into IWM Collections gets shared with a wider public.
  • Blog: Second World War

    'Let Us Go Forward Together': The United States Air Force in Britain

    L.Maxwell, 15 February 2012
    Last month the American Air Museum (AAM) Research Group sat around a meeting table at IWM Duxford and dreamt of Savannah, Georgia. Well, more specifically the United States Army and Air Force veteran associations based there and the possible help they could offer to the redevelopment project.
  • Blog

    New slants on surviving Nazi persecution

    Professor David Cesarani , 23 January 2012
    On 4-6 January 2012, Imperial War Museum London hosted the fourth international conference in the Beyond camps and forced labour series.
  • Blog: Holocaust

    Newly found photos document conditions for Roma and Sinti in Nazi-occupied Poland

    Emily Fuggle, 20 December 2011
    Here in the Department of Research, one of my responsibilities is to oversee the development of new content for The Holocaust Exhibition. My next is to display a collection of recently acquired photographs of Roma and Sinti (‘Gypsies’).
  • Blog: Holocaust

    Sheffield’s connection to flight from Hitler

    Suzanne Bardgett, 6 November 2011
    The Holocaust Exhibition was ten years old last year, and giving talks about its impact is a rewarding thing to do.
  • Blog

    Unthinkable task

    Suzanne Bardgett, 18 October 2011
    Back in Sarajevo. I call in on Muhamed Mujkic, who co-directed the Memorial Room film with the British documentary maker Leslie Woodhead, at his office at the Federation for Missing Persons.
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    Brave witnessing in Bosnia

    Suzanne Bardgett, 16 October 2011
    Wood-smoke curls through the darkness as I make my way to Sarajevo’s bus station for the 7am daily bus to Srebrenica. It’s my first visit to Bosnia since 2007 when the Srebrenica Memorial Room opened, a project initiated by Lord Ashdown, then High Representative in Bosnia Hercegovina, and supported by the IWM.

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