British Council Releases Old Footage Of London
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London Transport Museum Launch Film Archive Online
If the last thing you need is more online distraction, look away now. London Transport Museum today launched their film archive online. We’ve had a quick look and scratched the surface of “All That Mighty Heart” – a day in the life of London as …
Revolting London: The Conference
History geek heaven happens at the London Metropolitan Archives this weekend in the shape of Archives for London’s annual conference investigating six revolutionary movements that sparked to life in London from the 15th to the 20th centuries. On the podium are researcher, David Sutton, on …
Pathe Stock Footage Of Old London (Part 2)
Another dip into the wonderful archive of Pathé film footage from a vanished London. Here’s Part 1. German Zeppelin pays ‘goodwill’ visit to London. ‘No bombs this time.’ (1931) After our recent trip behind the Piccadilly lights, we can better appreciate the joy Londoners must …
Bloomsbury Bunker Yields ‘Forgotten’ Film Footage
Wanna see a youthful Yasser Arafat sans headscarf? Gerald Ford tumbling down some aircraft steps? Or how about Saddam Hussein touring a French nuclear facility? A ‘treasure trove’ of such news footage from the 1960s and ’70s will soon be released to the web after …
More Rare Photos Of A Vanished London
A U-boat below Tower Bridge, tanks in Ludgate and the Crystal Palace still extant. Welcome to another set of rarely seen images of London (previously). The photos are drawn from a special section of Flickr known as The Commons. The project collects images from photographic …
Learning Was Never So Londony
New Year’s resolutions are rubbish, we know that. But you could take the initiative to flick your brain round something new, nonetheless. How about this: Wellcome Collection have teamed up with Birkbeck to offer a short course, “Exploring Wellcome Collection: A Social History of Madness …
Windfall In Toyland
The V&A Museum of Childhood just won itself a £244,500 grant to research, digitize and properly archive the papers of four toy classic toy companies. In what sounds like the basis for a Will Ferrell Christmas film, some lucky archivist will spend three years playing …
Unseen Images Of A Vanished London
LIFE magazine and Google Images have teamed up to make millions of archive images available to the public for the first time. Within this stupendous resource are hidden thousands of pictures of a vanished London. We say ‘hidden’ because searching for ‘London’ yields no results. …
