This article was submitted by UKNIWM volunteer Irene Glausiusz, Chair of the ‘Memorial to Evacuation’ Steering Committee. To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, a moving act of remembrance took place on the last Tuesday in January under a cloudless sky beside Southwark Council’s Holocaust Memorial tree in the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park outside the Imperial War Museum. The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Imperial War Museum’
Holocaust Remembrance Encourages Present Day Reflection
Posted in Events, In the news, tagged Holocaust, Imperial War Museum, Refugees, Remembrance, WW2 on 10 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why was the UKNIWM established?
Posted in Events, FAQs, tagged Imperial War Museum on 5 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As well as being the anniversary of the founding of the Imperial War Museum, today is also an important anniversary for us. Twenty years ago today, the then Director General of the Imperial War Museum, Dr Alan Borg, wrote a letter responding to an article in The Times. The article had pointed out that church sculpture was [...]
Happy Birthday to the Imperial War Museum
Posted in Events, In the news, tagged Imperial War Museum on 5 March, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today is the anniversary of the founding of the Imperial War Museum, 91 years ago today. When the museum was founded, the end of the First World War was still over a year away. From just 15 staff and no permanent premises, the Museum now occupies five sites, attracting over a million visitors annually and employing 650 staff. [...]
Remembrance Sunday 11 November – meet the staff
Posted in Events, tagged Family history, Imperial War Museum, Remembrance Sunday on 1 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
11 November is Remembrance Sunday and staff from the UK National Inventory of War Memorials will be at three different branches of the Imperial War Museum, answering questions about war memorials, remembrance and tracing military family history. Each branch will also hold an armistice memorial ceremony at 11am. You can see us at the following branches Sunday 11th November at [...]
Modelling memorials
Posted in Memorials from the archive, tagged Cenotaph, Imperial War Museum on 6 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most of the larger memorials and sculptures you see will have begun life as a maquette, or scale model. This enables the architect or artist to refine their ideas and others, such as funders or memorial committees, to approve the design before construction begins on the full-scale memorial. Maquettes can also be used to increase awareness and inspire people when [...]
National Family History Fair – 8 September
Posted in Events, tagged Family history, Imperial War Museum on 5 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Along with colleagues from the Imperial War Museum, we’ll be manning a stall at the National Family History Fair at Gateshead International Stadium this Saturday, 8 September. We always enjoy getting out and about talking to people interested in war memorials and discussing how information, both on memorials and in our archive, can help with family history research. Read more [...]
Polish Paths to Freedom: First to Fight
Posted in Events, Memorials from the archive, tagged Imperial War Museum, Poland, WW2 on 5 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Throughout September and early October Imperial War Museum, London will be showing a special programme of rarely seen Polish features and documentaries, together with a selection of material from the museum’s film archive. The programme looks at the story of Eastern Europe from the outbreak of the Second World War, through the Stalinist years to the fall of [...]
Ole Bill
Posted in Memorials from the archive, Unusual memorials, tagged Imperial War Museum, WW1 on 6 July, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the more unusual war memorials at the Imperial War Museum is this London General omnibus, known as ‘Ole Bill’. Ole Bill was used during the First World War to transport troops on the Western Front. It returned to commerical use after the war, but was later retired and became a permanent memorial to [...]
