Blog posts
Join our volunteers as they begin their journey into the History of the Battle Bus; and uncover stories of transport and transport workers in WWI.
Find out more about the Zinkeisen sisters and how their portrayal of women in their poster designs could have been deemed 'racy' in the 1930s.
Join us in wishing Carol Barker a Happy 80th Birthday, and find out more about the artist herself.
Find out more about the progressive steps of Frank Pick in commissioning women to produce adverts for the Underground, from the first poster by a woman appearing in 1910 to an increase in female artists to 25% by 1930!
Find out how the Museum's Learning team got involved in working with young people to educate the community on the role of Battle Bus during the war, and how even young children helped out during the war.
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Battle Bus project 2016: Young Volunteers
, 2 minute readSee how our young volunteers got on with their Battle Bus research, to bring together their own exhibition.
Our Museum Director shares updates of a visit to the Somme to plan out the route for our First World War ‘Battle Bus’ (B2737), which will be revisiting for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2017.
Alongside the restoration and conservation of Battle Bus, we are running a learning and engagement programme, working with different groups of volunteers to investigate new perspectives of the Battle Bus. One of the perspectives explored is the experiences of women. Find out more in this blog by Vickie Pipe.
