East India Company in Redbridge

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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
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Download Stories of the World Young Londoner Museum Trail For Free

Stories of the World History of London Youth
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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
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Noor Inayat Khan - London's Public memorial to a Secret agent

Noor Inayat Khan
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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
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Get our free LGBT trail of the British Museum

LGBT objects at the British Museum
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 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
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Museums, volunteering and the Big Society

Stories of the Wolrd volunteer Kisandra uses a poverty map to talk about modern rich poor divide in London
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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.
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Young Londoners track a Victorian explorer in Stories of the World at Orleans House

Paint montage of man playing instrument, man with wings and tiger Winged monster picture by Luke
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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 -
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Book review: Landscape, Race and Memory: Material Ecologies of Citizenship by Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly

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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
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Stories of the World maps journeys into diversity at the London Transport Museum

Photo shows words pinned to white board, whimsical poem created by LTM young consultants and illustrator James Lambert
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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
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Shedding Light

Photo shows Vicky Butterfly performance artist Photo (c) Amelia Fairman
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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
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Seventy years after the Blitz: Remembering early Sikh Londoners

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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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