From ‘The Lion Roars’ to the Roaring Twenties!
As you know, a new building to house a new museum and archive is rapidly springing up in Willesden Green. While we wait for our new home to be finished, the Heritage Team… Continue reading
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The Lion Roars: The world in Wembley
Our new exhibition The Lion Roars: The world in Wembley opened on 24th April on the 90th anniversary of the Empire Exhibition’s opening and runs until 31st July. The exhibition can be seen in the Brent… 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
War and Remembrance
Sydney Dennis Slocum obituary, Willesden Chronicle, 15th March 1940. Slocum served in 224 Squadron, flying American-built Lockheed Hudsons over the North Sea from Leuchars in Scotland Brent Archives’ latest display on the felt… Continue reading