• Blog

    Guest Post: ‘The Ear of Britain’: Openness and the BBC Monitoring Service

    Laura Johnson, 11 June 2014
    Former IWM Collaborative Doctoral Award Student, Laura Johnson, describes her exciting research into the BBC Monitoring Service.
  • Blog: Second World War

    Cataloguing prisoner of war collections

    L.Oliver, 12 May 2014
    IWM holds a vast collection of documents telling the stories of the men who were held captive by the Japanese during the Second World War.
  • Blog: First World War

    Guest Post: Secret Warriors

    Taylor Downing, 28 April 2014
    Our guest blogger Taylor Downing is a historian and writer. His latest book, Secret Warriors: Key Scientists, Code Breakers and Propagandists of the Great War will be published by Little, Brown on 1 May 2014.
  • Blog

    International Exchange: Goethe Institut Residency in Bremen

    Alys Cundy, 4 February 2014
    From October to November last year I took time out from my research at IWM to undertake a residency in the German town of Bremen to take part in the Goethe Institut ‘Scholars in Residence’ programme.
  • Blog

    The World During the First World War

    Anna Maguire, 28 November 2013
    One of IWM's new Collaborative Doctoral Award Students, Anna Maguire, describes an inspiring recent conference on the global impact of the First World War.
  • Blog: Second World War

    Guest post: The Fortieth Anniversary of The World at War

    Taylor Downing , 7 November 2013
    Our guest blogger Taylor Downing is a historian and writer whose best selling books include works on the Second World War as well as other popular histories.
  • Blog

    Guest Post: D-Day Veterans and Commemoration in Britain

    Greg Tinker, 21 August 2013
    Our guest blogger, Greg Tinker, conducted his doctoral research on cultural memory and the Second World War. Studying for his PhD at the University of Reading, he explored the relationship between British veterans and remembrance. Here he describes some of the findings of his thesis.
  • Blog

    Memory, Conflict and Space

    Sunny Liverpool played host to the Memory, Conflict and Space conference that gave three of the Collaborative Doctoral Award students at IWM the chance to present together as part of a panel on aspects of representation and memory in the museum’s collections.
  • Blog

    Rod Suddaby

    L.Oliver, 15 July 2013
    This was the invaluable guidance of Rod Suddaby whom I had the privilege to have as my PhD co-supervisor for the last two years of his life – focusing on the stories of Far Eastern prisoners of war (POWs).
  • Blog

    Radio Moscow reviews the 1979 election

    C.Deal, 27 June 2013
    With all the recent coverage of the life and times of Margaret Thatcher, I thought it might be interesting to delve into the Radio Moscow material stored at Duxford to see how the election of Britain’s first female Prime Minister was reported to British listeners by a Soviet media source.
  • Blog: Holocaust

    Guest Post: Holocaust Exhibitions Compared

    Angelika Schoder, 29 May 2013
    Our guest blogger, Angelika Schoder, conducted her recent PhD research into the representation of National Socialist crimes at IWM London, and the German Historical Museum, Berlin. Here she outlines the findings of her thesis, which will be published in Germany in spring 2014.
  • Blog

    Who will make the UK’s Indigènes?

    R.Smither, 18 March 2013
    The website Caribbean aircrew in the RAF during WW2 draws attention to the 1953 feature film Appointment in London, a story about Bomber Command starring Dirk Bogarde, and in particular to a scene showing Bogarde mixing with his peers: among the officers is one of Caribbean origin.

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