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  • Green V2 rocket bomb on display in the atrium of IWM London
    IWM
    Blog: Objects

    80 years on: the V weapon attacks on Britain

    Zoe Melabianaki and Dominic Hewett, Research Support Librarians, 10 October 2024
    The Collections Access and Research Team will be participating in tenth annual History Day held at Senate House, London on Tuesday 5th November 2024. History Day is a day for researchers, students, and enthusiasts to explore the collections of libraries, museums and archives from all over UK. The theme for this year’s event is anniversaries and this blog will look at how V1 and V2 rockets were used against British soil eighty years ago and their impact on local communities and ordinary people’s lives.
  • Several men wading through the water with other men behind preparing to disembark landing craft
    IWM (BU 1184)
    Blog: Objects

    Commemorating D-Day: The Library Collections at IWM

    Charlotte Willsmore and Kaili Smith, Research Support Librarians, 10 October 2024
    On Tuesday 5th November the Collections Access and Research team will be participating in the 10th Annual History Day, held at Senate House. History Day is a day for researchers, students, and enthusiasts to explore the collections of libraries, museums and archives from all over UK. The theme for this year’s event is anniversaries and in honour of this theme, this blog will look at the commemoration of D-Day through materials held in the Imperial War Museums’ Library collection. 
  • Nurse Elsie Sandy picking cosmos flowers outside the nurses' hostel in the grounds of the Colonial Hospital on St Vincent in March 1955.
    IWM (TR 7109)
    Blog: Objects

    Reading the West Indies: A Guide to finding Caribbean stories in our Library Collection

    Zipporah Blake-Gravesande, Apprentice Research Support Librarian, 15 August 2024
    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.
  • Russian soldiers in uniform walking away from the camera, some glancing in the direction of the photographer
    © IWM (4071_90_0027)
    Blog: Photography

    One millionth photo digitised as part of the Digital Futures

    Margaret Weller, Head of Visual Resources and Michelle Kirby, Curator, 3 August 2023
    IWM is celebrating the 1 millionth photograph digitised by its mass preservation project, Digital Futures.
  • From War to Windrush 75 - image
    © Alamy
    Blog: Second World War

    The Rise of the Windrush Narrative

    Guest author: Sunder Katwala, Director of British Future and author of How To Be A Patriot, 22 June 2023
    No account of the history of post-war migration and the making of modern Britain would today omit the Windrush.  Yet that was not always the case, writes Sunder Katwala, Director of British Future.
  • Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel John Mottram, being interviewed by ITN in the aftermath of Operation Motorman, carried out on 31 July 1972
    IWM
    Blog: Film

    Reporting and remembering the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland

    Ella Roberts , 2 December 2022
    CDP student Ella Roberts discusses how the BBC played a key role in reporting the events of the Trouble to audiences in Northern Ireland, Britain and beyond.
  • Fiver young boys stand in their house with musical instruments
    IWM
    Blog: Film

    Deadline Video Letter: the transformative force of music and friendship

    Michelle Kirby, 8 August 2022
    IWM Film Curator Michelle Kirby reflects on one of the most memorable films produced by United Nations Television in the mid-1990s, that uncovers the transformative force of music and friendship. She reveals how a single email, serendipitously received from someone who originally appeared in the film over 25 years ago, has deepened her understanding of this powerful footage.
  • A screenshot of UNTV video: UNT 414. It shows children sat on a low wall with the caption "we don't talk about any kind of war themes".
    IWM
    Blog: Bosnia

    United Nations Television in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Reflections from Peace and Conflict Studies

    Dr Catherine Baker, 27 July 2022
    Dr Catherine Baker explores the UNTV project from Peace and Conflict Studies.
  • Blog: Bosnia

    Reflections on UNTV

    Roy Head, former Head of UNTV (1994-96), 27 July 2022
    Roy Head reflects on his time as the former head of UNTV.
  • An image of the corner of the Forced to Flee exhibition with a screen on the walling showing clips of the UNTV archive
    Blog: Bosnia

    The Choices Made for the IWM’s Forced to Flee Exhibition and the Use of First-Person Accounts

    Simon Offord, 27 July 2022
    IWM Curator Simon Offord reflects on IWM’s Forced to Flee Exhibition and the use of first-person accounts.
  • Map of the Falkland Islands, with land masses in white and the sea in blue
    © IWM FKD 2306 Map of the Falkland Islands
    Blog

    D-Day in the Falklands

    John Beales, 23 May 2022
    What was it like for British troops involved in the seaborne landings to retake the Falklands Islands? John Beales, an AHRC funded PhD researcher at Keele University and IWM, shares some of his research.
  • Screenshot of a video letter. A refugee looks out over her balcony. The subtitle reads 'We are alright, in a matter of speaking'.
    Draga writes to her friend Nada in Mostar (UNT 206)
    Blog

    UNTV’s video letters

    Dr Catherine Baker, 11 August 2021
    The most distinctive films in UNTV’s collection are the ‘video letters’. As well as the many informational features that this incarnation of the UNPROFOR television unit made between May 1994 and January 1996, and a small number of interviews with UNPROFOR leaders and ‘vox pops’ with the local public also filmed for early UNTV packages, UNTV made at least 90 of these films.

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