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The Imperial War Museum (IWM), currently branded "Imperial War Museums", is a British national museum.It is headquartered in London, with five branches in England. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, it was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of the United Kingdom and its Empire during the First World War.
Photograph courtesy of The Imperial War Museum, London.EPH3849. The Day Joyce Sheet is an artefact that emerged from the prison camps of the Second World War.Created secretly in Stanley Internment Camp, Hong Kong, the double bed sheet was embroidered and appliquéd with 1100 names, signs and figures and includes two years of camp diaries in code. [1]
Terry Charman (29 July 1950 – 15 February 2019) was an historian and curator at the Imperial War Museum and author. [1] [2] [3] He was born at Kingston upon Thames and educated at Kingston Grammar School and then the University of Reading. After a brief career in banking he joined the Imperial War Museum as an historian.
In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. The IWM aural archive has become the most important archive of its kind in the world.
Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England. Britain's largest aviation museum , [ 2 ] Duxford houses the museum's large exhibits, including nearly 200 aircraft , military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels in seven main exhibition buildings. [ 3 ]
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Forgotten Voices is a series of audio tapes and books put together by the Imperial War Museum. The sound archive features thousands of interviews with people who survived wars in which the British were involved in the 20th Century.
A Peace Conference at the Quai d'Orsay, Imperial War Museum Painting the Paris Peace Conference : William Orpen , 24 January 2009 The Treaty of Versailles, 1919: A Primary Source Examination of the Treaty that Ended World War I , Corona Brezina, The Rosen Publishing Group, 2005, ISBN 1404204423 , p. 31