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

Archives re-opening moved back to 1st May

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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

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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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