Explore Your Archive Week
This week has been Explore Your Archive Week supported by The National Archives and The Archives and records Association UK and Ireland. There have been loads of events all over the UK and… Continue reading
Category Archive: Uncategorized
0 Comments
The Shallis Boys
CNN have just released online a short film about the Shallis family who lived in 10 Ranelagh Road in Harlesden. The film tells the family’s very sad story of loss during the First… Continue reading
Archives re-opening moved back to 1st May
Our decant from WGLC continues apace. However, owing to circumstances beyond our control, we will now be re-opening in the interim Willesden Green Library, at George Furness House, 2-12 Grange Road, on Wednesday… Continue reading
In praise of Royal Mail carts, and the absence of nosebleeds
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