Category Archive: Brent Archives

Food Curious Food

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Ever wondered what tickled your ancestors’ tastebuds? Why not come along to a free illustrated talk by the esteemed Dr Peter Ross on the subject of “Badger Ham and Stewed Sparrows – a… Continue reading

Get Acquainted with Kilburn’s Victorian Fraud!

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Brent Archives invites you to join urban historians Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms for an evening of Victorian intrigue and scandal as they introduce us to the subject of their new book –… Continue reading

In praise of Royal Mail carts, and the absence of nosebleeds

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On 22 June 1941, within hours of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, museum staff began evacuating the Hermitage and other heritage collections in and near Leningrad. One curator, Anatoly Kuchumov, wrote… Continue reading

Temporary Closure

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(From our online image and photograph catalogue: Under construction the Falcon Way Bridge on Preston Estate, Wembley 1947-48) From 5pm today Brent Archives will be closed while we move to temporary accommodation during… Continue reading

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