museums

The Rolls Royce Merlin – the engine that won WW2

21/01/2025 donbrown 0

For men of a certain age (a demographic that to which I very squarely belong), those brought up with war comics, Airfix models and the […]

Epstein’s Einstein at the V&A

19/11/2024 donbrown 0

Have you heard of the family Stein? There’s Gert and there’s Ep and there’s Ein Gert’s poetry’s bunk Ep’s statues are junk And no one […]

‘Lost Gardens of London’ at the Garden Museum

30/10/2024 donbrown 0

To the Garden Museum in the old St Mary at Lambeth church (burial place of William Bligh, of ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ fame), hard by […]

Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital

03/09/2024 donbrown 0

On the railings outside the Coram charity’s HQ in Bloomsbury is a white children’s mitten. Or, rather, what appears to be a child’s mitten, because […]

30 Years of Warfare: from the Nery Gun to the V2

10/07/2024 donbrown 0

Go down into the central atrium of the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, and one of the first things you see is the ‘Nery Gun’. […]

Days Out: The D Day Story and the Overlord Embroidery

09/06/2024 donbrown 0

Portsmouth’s D Day Story is a small museum on the seafront a literal stone’s throw from the Tudor castle at Southsea (where Henry VIII watched […]

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The Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum

08/06/2024 donbrown 0

One of the lesser-visited galleries in the IWM is on Level 5 (the top floor), the Lord Ashcroft collection of Victoria Crosses and George Crosses […]

Glorious Chaos: Sir John Soane’s Museum

17/02/2024 donbrown 0

Sir John Soane (1753-1837), most famously the architect of the Bank of England and Dulwich Picture Gallery, was the son of a bricklayer who rose […]

The Last of the WW2 Big Ships – HMS Belfast

30/01/2024 donbrown 0

A visit to HMS Belfast on a chilly, late January Tuesday gave me the ship almost to myself, the first time I’d visited this floating […]

The Nereid Monument in the British Museum

22/01/2024 donbrown 0

On one’s way to the Parthenon Gallery one walks through Room 17 of the British Museum and there, on the right, is what appears to […]

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The Rolls Royce Merlin – the engine that won WW2

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Epstein’s Einstein at the V&A

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‘Lost Gardens of London’ at the Garden Museum

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Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital

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30 Years of Warfare: from the Nery Gun to the V2

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Days Out: The D Day Story and the Overlord Embroidery

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The Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum

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Glorious Chaos: Sir John Soane’s Museum

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The Last of the WW2 Big Ships – HMS Belfast

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The Nereid Monument in the British Museum

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