
‘Gassed’ by John Singer Sargent at the IWM Blavatnik Gallery
John Singer Sargent was an American expat artist whose luminous portraits of late Victorian and Edwardian society – the aristocrats and the rich – made […]
John Singer Sargent was an American expat artist whose luminous portraits of late Victorian and Edwardian society – the aristocrats and the rich – made […]
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 […]
Thanks to everyone who has visited the blog this year, passed comments, shared on Facebook or whatever. It’s been another record-breaking (for me) year, with […]
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’. […]
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 […]
To the new Second World War gallery at the Imperial War Museum. And it’s really rather good. The previous WW2 ‘experience’ in the museum focussed […]
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