Ars Homo Erotica in Warsaw

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National museums staging major exhibitions on LGBT themes are still a rarity, and Poland is among the more conservative countries in Europe in approaching the subject.  So, at least in the gay press, it was international news when last year the National Museum in

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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A Short History of London Refugees

19 Princelet Street - the Museum of Immigration and Diversity
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Refugee Week celebrates the contribution of refugees to the UK, counterbalancing the often very hostile images in the press of refugees as an unequivocally negative influence.We look at some of the groups who have fled to London in the past 500 years, and where you
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Polish Migration To London: A Drama In Three Acts

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Since the 1940s there have been three major waves of Polish immigration to the UK. The different reasons for these mean that the Polish communities can be seen as distinct groups with very different aspirations who may or may not mix. Marysia Lachowicz describes the
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Hungarians In London

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October 2006 marks 50 years since the failure of the Hungarian uprising brought more than 12,000 refugees from Communism to London. One of those people was writer and journalist Mátyás Sárközi.Here he gives a long view of Hungarians in Britain, recalling how they
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Articles By:
Kate Smith

Kate Smith is a writer and cultural project manager who founded untoldLondon while working for the Museum of London.  She has sifted through the collections of about a hundred London museums looking for the hidden, the forgotten and the secret.

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