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  1. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    Designing a new Tube-inspired collection

    28 March 2023, 5 minute read

    Harriet Wallace-Jones and Emma Sewell are the textile designers behind many of Transport for London's moquette designs. They share the story behind working with us on our exclusive new Tube 160 Wallace Sewell Collection to celebrate 160 years of the London Underground.

    Flatlay photo of a Tube map, colour samples, reel of thread and colourful fabric
  2. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    Wearing our roundel with pride

    28 March 2023, 4 minute read

    Alexander Garnett-Scherer shares his recent work developing and producing a new pride roundel pin badge for LGBT+ colleagues and allies.

    Rainbow crossing in the Museum
  3. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Events

    Poets and cabbies: On the Cotton

    8 February 2023, 3 minute read

    Poet Dan Simpson introduces the On the Cotton project, and explains the creative connections he developed between London's poets and black cab drivers.

    Taxi driver's eyes reflected in their car mirror
  4. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    The future of transport ticketing - What Crossrail can teach us

    6 February 2023, 5 minute read

    Discover how the work of Cubic Transport Systems on the Crossrail project and transport ticketing more widely is changing the future of transportation.

    A hand swiping a card on a ticket reader on a bus
  5. Blog category
    •  Volunteers
    •  Collections

    The Underground’s Unlikeliest ‘Ghost’

    9 November 2022, 3 minute read

    Museum Volunteer and Doctor of transport history Rudi Newman reveals the story of one of the few confirmed ‘hauntings’ on the Underground

    A locomotive emerging from a tunnel
  6. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Exhibitions

    For the love of Carnival

    21 October 2022, 4 minute read

    Shari Royer, designer of the carnival headdress on display in our Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce exhibition, reveals the inextricable link between her love for Carnival and her career as a costume designer.

    A person pointing at a feathered headdress on display in a case
  7. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Collections

    Curating the new Poster Parade: Tom Eckersley

    11 October 2022, 2 minute read

    Go behind the scenes of our latest Poster Parade with Danyi Wei and Wenyi Shi, the former interns who worked with our curators to put together the display, showcasing the work of influential British designer Tom Eckersley.

    Two people posing in front of a poster display
  8. Blog category
    •  Volunteers
    •  Collections

    London Transport at War: Recruitment Posters from the First World War

    By Nick Gill, 12 August 2022, 3 minute read

    Find out how poster commisions by the the Underground Group contributed to recruitment propaganda at the beginning of the First World War, with Museum Depot volunteer Nick Gill.

    Poster depicting soldiers marching through ruined buildings