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Young People's Blog Series - Reflecting on the Young Freelancers Experience: One Year On
, 2 minute readAagya Pradhan, one of the Young Freelancers in our Young People Skills programme, reflects on how the programme has helped her to explore aspects of museum work she wouldn't have considered before.
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Young People's Blog Series - How to get the best out of being an apprentice
, 2 minute readWe're launching a new series of blogs written by some of the young freelancers and apprentices in our Young People's Skills Programme. In the first installment, Bayley gives useful tips and advice to young people to make the most of an apprenticeship.
Senior Curator Laura Sleath looks at Transport for London's long history of producing posters to keep passengers informed about upgrades to the network. This theme is further explored in our exhibition Untangling the Tracks,
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Thameslink: A history through the city
By Laura Sleath, , 3 minute readOur latest exhibition Untangling the Tracks takes a closer look at the Thameslink Programme, a major project to increase capacity, improve connections and provide greater reliability on the Thameslink route. Senior Curator Laura Sleath tells us the history behind the only north-south mainline railway to cross London.
Young Freelancer Aksana Khan talks about her first big project which involved supporting the Young People’s Skills Programme.
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Poster Girls - Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964)
, 1 minute readDavid Bownes, co-curator of our Poster Girls exhibition, talks about one of the illustrators featured in the exhibition, Mabel Lucie Attwell.
David Bownes, Co-Curator of our exhibition Poster Girls, talks about the 'Travel Queen', 1960s designer Dorrit Dekk.
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C&RE - A modern couple who brought a new aesthetic to 1930s poster art
, 2 minute readFind out about Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, the husband and wife designer duo who shared artistic and marital equality.