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Sheffield’s connection to flight from Hitler
‘Trixie’ who accompanied her young owner –Inga Joseph– when she left Vienna for Britain as one of the Kindertransport refugees in June 1939. IWM EPH 3922 The Holocaust Exhibition was ten years old last...
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The Challenges of Remembering: Researching Empire and War
To mark the publication of IWM’s guide to Researching the British Empire in the First World War, Anna Maguire reflects on the challenges of remembering war and empire. On 12 June 2014, I attended a...
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IWM Short Film Festival 2014
Filmmaking in IWM’s collections: stripped to the waist, Sergeant Basil Wishart of No 9 Army Film and Photo Section films Indian troops crossing a river near Meiktila, Burma in 1945. © IWM SE5423 On a...
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VE Day: The Start of a Waiting Game
US official photograph showing American airmen having a drink with Brits outside the Waggon and Horses pub in Great Yeldham, near their base at Ridgewell, Essex, on 17 May 1945. They are gathered...
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Resistance to the First World War Conference
Over the weekend of 18-20 March an international conference took place in Leeds, focusing on resistance to the First World War. The conference, which I helped to organise, brought together academics,...
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‘Exploring black people’s involvement in the First World War’: IWM’s free...
John Siblon, ‘Between Hierarchy and Memory: Commemoration of African and Caribbean Servicemen after the First World War’. Photo: ©IWM I was invited to speak at a workshop on 15 October at the Imperial...
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