Photos from the archives reveal the Museum's little-known contribution to the war effort and offer a glimpse of life on the home front in one of London's most iconic buildings. Victory gardens (also ...

Improvement work on the International Slavery Museum ... including the British Museum. The London-based museum is getting a £1billion face-lift, which will see its entrances renovated, areas ...

Voices of Resistance exposes how 19th century British postal services profited from and enabled transatlantic trafficking of ...

The best of London for free. Sign up for our email to ... You might think The Postal Museum’s focus is centred just on UK affairs, but its new exhibition will turn its gaze to the lives of ...

Explore research into how our history and collections are connected to the transatlantic slave trade. Many museums in the UK have legacies that are rooted in colonialism. In the nineteenth century, ...

A 'promenade' play taking place at one of the country's best loved museums is to tackle the difficult issue of its own links with the slave trade. The performance of ‘This Accursed Thing’ is a product ...

outside the Museum of London Docklands. Backed by £500,000 of funding by mayor Sadiq Khan, the project’s intention is to ...

The post-world war history of the UK and London is an important influence when understanding the political economy of development, global trade and international power structures. Britain’s legacy as ...

One of the featured themes is the history of ice-cream making, another the little-known trade in ice imported from Norway and once stored in two huge wells beneath the museum. London Canal Museum ...

A major London museum was evacuated after a visitor brought suspected WW2 “ordnance” into the site. The Imperial War Museum in Kennington, which houses a large number of WW2 objects ...

The announcement of Jeremy O Harris’ West End run of Slave Play was greeted with equal measures of glee and trepidation. What would London make of this controversial play that, while on Broadway, ...