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‘They can’t take away your imagination and creativity’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on how sewing helped her in Iran jail

Zaghari-Ratcliffe made clothes for her daughter while waiting for her eventual release. Now, the idea of creativity as a form of resistance is the theme of a new collaboration between London’s Imperial War Museum and the fabric department of Liberty.

The Guardian - UK

New film explores how Caribbean workers helped win second world war

Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, Cornwallis Cloth ends ‘archival silence’ around invaluable West Indian contribution to war effort

The Guardian - UK

London's Imperial War Museum defends Holocaust caption criticised by historians

The caption - describing the Nazi Nuremberg Laws as defining Jews by how many “observant” Jewish grandparents they had - has been called misleading by two leading Holocaust historians.

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20 best museums in London for 2025, from family-friendly days out to galleries filled with famous art

From historic artefacts and contemporary art to interactive exhibitions, London’s best museums have something for every visitor

The Independent UK

Duchess Sophie Takes on Spring's Powder Pink Trend as She Highlights a Groundbreaking Exhibition

The Duchess of Edinburgh showed pretty can be powerful.

Marie Claire

The story of war is one of kidnapping, slavery and rape. And what we talk about is strategy and territory

From the Boer war to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition reminds us what really happens once the bullets begin to fly, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

VE Day 2025 guide: Ideas and events in London to commemorate the 80th anniversary

The allies saw victory in Europe 80 years ago

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Museums Rethink How The Holocaust Should Be Shown

Historians are rethinking the way the Holocaust is being presented in museums as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the last Nazi concentration camps this month.

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London’s oldest art fair marks 40th year with new works by celebrated British artists

Art fans spilled out of Somerset House as they tried to get their hands on a new work by renowned British print artist David Shrigley at the London Original Print Fair on Thursday (20 March).

The Independent UK

‘He could create beauty out of horror’: the extraordinary life and photography of Tim Hetherington

He joined rebel convoys in Africa and turned his time with GIs in Afghanistan into an Oscar-nominated film. But his subject wasn’t war – it was people. Ahead of a major show, our writer remembers his former colleague

The Guardian - UK

The most important exhibition you'll see all year: Tim Hetherington at the Imperial War Museum

Tim Hetherington’s photography was a exploration of people caught up in conflicts – and this new exhibition will take his work to a wider audience, and leave them reeling

Evening Standard

Mark Kermode on… director Steve McQueen, a boundary-pushing master

From his feature debut, Hunger, to his new documentary, Occupied City, the Oscar-winning director and Turner prize winner’s work has been a long, lively conversation between art and film

The Guardian - UK

‘When is it too early to teach your kids about genocide?’ Inside the Imperial War Museum’s harrowing new galleries

From the Somme to Afghanistan and Iraq, 500 works capture a century of warfare at the museum’s new Blavatnik art, film and photography galleries. You could spend days in its screening rooms alone, says our writer

The Guardian - UK

Imperial War Museum missing 500 objects ‘shouldn’t cause alarm’ – minister

Conservative MP Jane Stevenson grilled the industry and Government about the missing items during a session of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

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‘It glows’: restorer removes queasy look from first world war painting Gassed

John Singer Sargent picture of soldiers blinded by mustard gas, the most popular at the Imperial War Museum, is seen in new light

The Conversation

Conscientious objectors in the second world war: little-known stories of pacifists plagued by doubt but willing to risk their lives

Like many conscientious objectors during the second world war, John Corsellis was acutely aware of the complex and conflicted position he was taking. Years later, he told the Imperial War Museum’s oral history project:

The Guardian - UK

Peter Howson on his war art: ‘People were horrified. Then David Bowie bought it’

He was the official artist of the Bosnian conflict but paid a terrible price. The Scot, loved by celebrities from Bowie to Madonna, talks about the day he lost all hope, overcoming his addictions – and finding peace walking his dog Buster

Evening Standard

Who was Brian Haw? Statue to be installed in south London

The campaigner spent a decade camped in Parliament square protesting against UK and US foreign policy

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