Alumni

  • Mr F B K Drake (right), Civilian Liaison Officer-in-Charge of Dyak trackers in Malaya, talks with some of his selected jungle fighters.
    © IWM DM 146

    Rio Creech-Nowagiel

    Diversifying and decolonising conflict photography: an exploration of how accompanying textual information can influence the reading and understanding of photographs

  • Kenyan men being searched during operations against the Mau Mau
    Image: IWM (MAU 865)

    Niels Boender

    Mau Mau’s Unquiet Ghosts: Coercive Reconciliation and local politics in Central Kenya, 1956-1969

  • Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as 'comfort girls' for the troops.
    © IWM SE 5226

    Megan O'Mahony

    Representing and Remembering Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in the Second World War

  • Herbert Hillier, 'Dreams! The 'Guard' Off Duty, July 2nd 1915' pencil drawing
    © IWM ART 4374

    Chloe Nahum

    ‘To dream as I have never dreamed before’: Dreaming and the First World War Literature and Culture.

  • Army Film and Photographic Unit photographer Sgt Norman Midgley in his jeep
    © IWM (B 7947)

    Oliver Carter-Wakefield

    The cameraman’s experience of the Second World War: a study of the AFPU dope sheets/The Army Film and Photographic Film Unit, 1941-1945.

  • Hollad House Library, 1940. Three men inspect the book shelves in a bomb damaged hall.
    © IWM (HU 131632)

    Jane McArthur

    The Scars of War: Ruin, Memory and Loss in Photographs of World War II London

  • Black and white photograph of British forces in Berlin post-war
    © IWM

    Ellis Keeber

    “Limelight Soldiering?" The Cold War and the experience of British military personnel in Berlin, 1945-1971

  • General Orde Wingate and an American Liason Officer in discussion with a Chindit.
    © IWM (MH 7864)

    Simon Browne

    Soldiers of stamina and daring: exploring the lives and legacies of Major General David Lloyd-Owen and Major General Orde Wingate

  • A maintenance Wren screwing down caps of the oil pump of an MTB engine.
    © IWM (A 12196)

    Jane Clarke

    A review of the impact of women’s military or wartime service in the aftermath of the First World War

  • A concept image IWM's new Second World War Galleries. Patrons exploring the Second World War galleries full of images and objects.
    © IWM (A concept image IWM's new Second World War Galleries)

    Kasia Tomasiewicz

    The Imperial War Museum and British Public Memory of the Second World War

  • A soldier passes war artist John Keane as he sketches during the Gulf War 1990-91
    © Ken Lennox (GLF 1324)

    Clare Carolin

    Bring the War Home: Civic Participation, Citizenship Rituals and the Representation of Conflict in Contemporary Art

  • Man on stretcher being rescued from damaged building
    Film still The Waking Point, (Britain: Central Office of Information, 1951, COI 1181)

    Jessica Douthwaite

    Voices of the Cold War in 1950s Britain 

  • British Army soldiers in the jungle in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising in 1952 or 1953.
    © IWM (MAU 545)

    Tom Probert

    The impact of participating in British counterinsurgency campaigns, 1945-1997, on the psyche of British armed forces personnel

  • Artificial white peace poppy. The centre is metal and has “PEACE” embossed on it.
    © IWM (EPH 2284)

    Sabine Grimshaw

    Pacifism and protest: anti-war sentiment in IWM collections

  • Men of the 1/4th King's African Rifles at Njombe, German East Africa. Formed at the beginning of the century from tribesmen in British East Africa (now Kenya) and Uganda, the KAR bore the brunt of most of the fighting during the campaign.
    © IWM (Q 34470)

    Anna Maguire

    Colonial Encounters during the First World War

  • The Royal Party walking past the American M.40 self-propelled gun.
    © IWM (MH 8589)

    Rebecca Coll

    Noble Frankland and the reinvention of the Imperial War Museum 1960-1982

  • Recruitment poster. Depiction of British soldier in a hodden grey kilt and glengarry bonnet pointing to an idyllic countryside scene of thatched cottages with gardens full of colourful flowers, cows grazing in green fields, and rolling hills under a blue sky.
    © IWM (Art.IWM PST 0320)

    Leanne Green

    Advertising War: War Publicity and the First World War.

  • Emaciated former prisoners sitting on the steps of an ambulance in Singapore following their release from captivity in Sumatra.
    © Estate of Zina Oliver (IWM HU 69972)

    Lizzie Oliver

    Interpreting Memories of a Forgotten Army: Prisoner-of-war narratives from the Sumatra Railway, May 1944 - August 1945

  • First World War Galleries, IWM London
    ©IWM, IWM London, First World War Galleries

    James Wallis

    Commemoration, Memory and the Process of Display: Negotiating the Imperial War Museum’s First World War Exhibitions, 1964 - 2014.

  • The large exhibits on display in the atrium at Lambeth Road.
    ©IWM (2000)

    Alys Cundy

    A Century of Reinvention: Display Policy and Practice at the Imperial War Museum, 1917-2017.

  • BBC Monitoring Reports

    Chris Deal

    Framing War, Sport and Politics: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Moscow Olympics

  • BBC Monitoring RT Section
    1978 RT Section, courtesy of BBC Monitoring

    Laura Johnson

    Establishing Broadcast Monitoring as Open Source Intelligence: The BBC Monitoring Service during the Second World War

  • Nuremburg trial dock with defendants sat listening to proceedings on headphones, including Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel.
    © IWM (NWT 28)

    Kevin Reynolds

    ‘That Justice be Seen’: the American Prosecution’s Use of Film at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal.

  •  Wellington Bomber awaiting Camouflage
    © IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 2605)

    Rebecca Searle

    Working Space, Production and Visual Culture: Aircraft in Wartime Britain, 1939-45.

  • A film still taken from episode 14 of the BBC television production 'The Great War' showing a full face close-up portrait of Royal Navy Signaller C Farmer
    © IWM (IWM FLM 3792)

    Hope Wolf

    'Something yet unpublished’: Anecdotes in the Imperial War Museum’s Archive of the 1964 BBC Series, The Great War.

  • Engravings on sandtone at the North Head Quarantine site, Sydney
    Hannah Mawdsley

    Hannah Mawdsley

    The Politics of Commemoration and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

  • Fabio Simonetti

    Encounters in Wartime Italy: British Soldiers and Italian Civilians, 1943-1944

  • A landscape scene in which two guns stand propped up with helmets on top of them.

    John Beales

    War Stories: composure and discomposure in British veterans’ communication of their experiences of the Falklands War, 1982

  • Lee Arnott

    Deconstructing the myth of the British military masculine ideal.
    Military masculinities in the British Army, 1960-2020

  • French civilian Mari-Anne Le Du clasping a book among the debris in one of the rooms of her new home in the village of Buron, N. W. of Caen.
    © IWM (B 7700)

    Alice Tofts

    The photographs of families who fell victim to Nazi persecution: building a collection; interrogating its meaning

  • Mrs Kitchener, a female gravedigger, carries on her husband's business whilst he serves on the front, Aley Green Cemetery, Luton.
    © IWM (Q 31234)

    Colin Harding

    Horace Nicholls: Artist, Journalist, Propagandist, Opportunist