Blog posts
Our Museum volunteers contribute a huge amount of time, energy, enthusiasm, skills and expertise to everything we do, ensuring our visitors have a fantastic time when they visit us in Covent Garden and Acton. This Volunteers' Week we're saying a huge Thank You to our volunteers and shining a light on their contributions.
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- Contemporary Curators
Women’s Safety and Welfare - A new collecting project
, 2 minute readAs part of a new collecting project documenting women’s safety and welfare on the transport network, we are hosting an event at the Museum on 23 May 2022 to discuss these issues across the heritage sector. Find out more in this blog by Documentary Curator, Rosamund West.
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- Contemporary Curators
'I helped open the Elizabeth line' - Documenting contemporary transport history
, 2 minute readDocumentary Curator Rosamund West shares her memories of the Elizabeth line trial operations day at Woolwich station.
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- Volunteers
- Collections
The Art of the Poster - London Transport at War: Second World War
By Nick Gill, , 3 minute readA look at wartime posters commissioned by London Transport during the Second World War, with Museum Depot volunteer Nick Gill.
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- Volunteers
- Collections
The Art of the Poster - London Transport at War: First World War
By Nick Gill, , 3 minute readMuseum Depot volunteer Nick Gill presents a selection of posters commissioned by the UERL during the First World War, in the first instalment in a series of blogs exploring wartime posters in our collection.
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- Volunteers
Mind the Gap - The story of Embankment station's announcement
, 2 minute readWelcome Host volunteer Thomas James share one of his favourite London Underground stories, about the very special Mind the Gap announcement at Embankment station.
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- Volunteers
- Collections
A brief history of the pocket Underground map
By Nick Gill, , 4 minute readFrom the first map produced by the UERL in 1908 to the revolutionary Harry Beck design and its modern iterations, enjoy a brief history of the Underground map by Museum volunteer Nick Gill.
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- Guest blog
- Climate Crossroads
Energy Garden: Bringing Community Energy to the London Overground
, 2 minute readEnergy Garden is a Community Benefit Society that invests in renewable energy infrastructure to support community development. Find out how they help tackle the lack of accessible green space in urban environments by creating community-owned renewable energy and garden initiatives on transport infrastructure across London.