East India Company in Redbridge
12 April 2011
As I keep telling my family (and academic colleagues) all historical roads lead to India and sometimes on special occasions to Gujarat. This exhibition tells a history of modern London which is dependent on many countries East especially the northern realms of India. The exhibition
Download Stories of the World Young Londoner Museum Trail For Free
22 March 2011
Follow young Londoners through time at local London museums....
What follows is a text version of the trail, scroll to the bottom for pdf download.
What would life have been like as a teenager or young adult in London across time?
Sometimes filled with freedom
Noor Inayat Khan - London's Public memorial to a Secret agent
13 March 2011
London’s bustling Baker Street may be known internationally as the street on which the world’s most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes lived (on 221-B), but the street has its real secrets as well. 64 Baker Street may look today like a regular
Get our free LGBT trail of the British Museum
17 February 2011
Our fold-out trail of LGBT objects at the British Museum has just been launched.
It features 21 objects ranging through 4,000 years of history from ancient Babylon and Egypt to the Classical world, Maori and Native American culture, Japan and Western Europe.
You can get a
Museums, volunteering and the Big Society
09 November 2010
Museums are one of the test beds for the big society. 'Vanguard community' Liverpool is to build "a volunteer programme so they can keep museums open longer" - the words of David Cameron in his first major speech on the big society as prime minister.
Young Londoners track a Victorian explorer in Stories of the World at Orleans House
01 November 2010
It might sound strange - a project bringing together vulnerable young Londoners, a firmly moral Indian artist, and a maverick Victorian explorer with a penchant for erotic literature. But Orleans House is making it work.
The scheme is part of Stories of the World -
Book review: Landscape, Race and Memory: Material Ecologies of Citizenship by Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly
27 October 2010
The season of mists and fruitful mellowness is upon us, who wants to go out in that? Untold London searches out some nourishing books to feed your brain in the forthcoming period of enforced hibernation.First up, Martha Mingay reports back on Landscape, Race and
Stories of the World maps journeys into diversity at the London Transport Museum
07 October 2010
If you want to check out 'Museum 2.0', you can find it now at the London Transport Museum. Four young people with diverse backgrounds have been collaborating with LTM on some of its biggest decisions, and bringing new perspectives to its collection.
Adelah, Elvis, Aobakwe and
Shedding Light
21 September 2010
Never has murky subterranean London been so refreshing; never somewhere so dark so illuminating. The contemporary art on display in the winding tunnels of ShoreditchTown Hall’s basement is as diverse in both execution and quality as one might expect from any group show
Seventy years after the Blitz: Remembering early Sikh Londoners
08 September 2010
As Britons remember the dark days of the German blitz on London on the 70th anniversary of the commencement of the bombing raids that changed the London landscape and terrified the populace for months, we recall some of the earliest Sikh families living in London
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