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warehouse number one, the home of the london Museum Docklands

The missing statue of Robert Milligan

03/10/2025 donbrown 0

To the London Museum in Docklands for a bit of research on the history of the docks for my forthcoming online talk. The museum’s building […]

double headed serpent from the British Museum

The Mexica Double-Headed Serpent in the British Museum

27/08/2025 donbrown 0

In 1521, less than 30 years after Columbus first landed in the Americas a Spanish force of invaders/adventurers/colonists had sacked the Mexica (Aztec) capital of […]

Getting Medieval: Room 8 at the V+A

20/02/2025 donbrown 0

If asked my favourite London museum I always feel duty bound to say the British Museum, its collection allowing glimpses into civilisations from across the […]

‘Gassed’ by John Singer Sargent at the IWM Blavatnik Gallery

09/02/2025 donbrown 0

John Singer Sargent was an American expat artist whose luminous portraits of late Victorian and Edwardian society – the aristocrats and the rich – made […]

inside the old reading room of the british library

The Old British Library Reading Room in the British Museum

23/01/2025 donbrown 0

Ever since the British Library decamped to its new home at St Pancras in 1997 and the subsequent creation of the Great Court, the British […]

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’. […]

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The missing statue of Robert Milligan

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‘Gassed’ by John Singer Sargent at the IWM Blavatnik Gallery

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The Old British Library Reading Room in the British Museum

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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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