We Can Do Better was a takeover of Downhill House by the artist Joe Caslin in collaboration with a group of young women born after the Good Friday Agreement. Produced in Northern Ireland by the Nerve Centre, Caslin co-created the work with a group known as ‘The Kindred Collective’. The temporary, paper-based artwork stretched across the front of Downhill House and was designed in response to some of the issues affecting young people in Northern Ireland today. In this blog post, the collective explains how a nine-month process of engagement and co-creation led to a piece of work that reflected societal conflict, empowerment and change.

Commissioned by the IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund in partnership with The Brickworks Museum, located in the village of Swanwick, Southampton, locusts brings together real-life testimonies from the local community about the Second World War and its aftermath within this part of England, whilst exploring the potential for individual and collective healing through processes of recollection and re-enactment. Joseph Constable shares his reflections on this powerful new film.

A guide to locating Caribbean library resources in IWM London's Research Room, including how to search collections, book a Research Room appointment and a reading list.

Robert Rumble is the Project Curator for Lifesavers, a five-year project to explore how conflict has driven innovation in science and technology. Lifesavers is a collaboration between Imperial War Museums and Lloyd’s Register Foundation. Lifesavers is a project at Imperial War Museums, to discover the fascinating objects and stories relating to science and technology held in the museums’ collections. The project serves to improve global safety by learning from the past.

Robert Rumble is the Project Curator for Lifesavers, a five-year project to explore how conflict has driven innovation in science and technology. Lifesavers is a collaboration between Imperial War Museums and Lloyd’s Register Foundation. Lifesavers is a project at Imperial War Museums, to discover the fascinating objects and stories relating to science and technology held in the museums’ collections. The project serves to improve global safety by learning from the past.

Part of the IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund in partnership with Ulster University, 'After the Rain' was the culmination of over a years long engagement in Derry-Londonderry by the world renowned contemporary French circus troupe Compagnie XY. Rachel Melaugh, Creative Director of In Your Space Circus and producer for this project shares her reflections.

In this guest blog post, Dr Lee Karen Stow shares insights into her new project. Unfolding her maternal grandmother Olive May Bertholini’s hankies, she also unfolds her story of war and, perhaps, of love. Hidden within these squares of delicate cotton and silk, and striped gents hankies, are memories and clues to what she and others went through during the two world wars.

Exploring the Second World War innovations that made D-Day possible.

Lifesavers is a project at Imperial War Museums, to discover the fascinating objects and stories relating to science and technology held in the museums’ collections. Generously sponsored by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Lifesavers aims to discover how conflict has accelerated innovation, and how this has impacted on the world we live in today.

Part of the IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund, 'Somewhere to Stay' tells the story of Anna Sokulska Forster, the artist's mother, who was deported from her family home in eastern Poland (now Ukraine) and transported to a Soviet labour camp in Arkhangelsk. This was the start of a long journey of survival and ongoing displacement that would see her travel thousands of miles, from Arkhangelsk, to Uzbekistan, Iran, Tanzania, and finally the UK.

Research has been undertaken into the story of Mabel Wulff, who born in Newport in Wales but lived for many years in Germany. In this blog post, Madeleine Resühr and Andrew Hemmings share details of Mabel's extraordinary life, which spanned the two world wars and beyond.

Jason Davidson, producer/director and co-owner of the award winning production company Squeaky Pedal, shares his reflections on exploring the IWM film archive for a new TV series entitled Sunken Warships: Secrets from the Deep.