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  1. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Posters

    Prize for Illustration Notes from a winner - By Julia Allum

    A note from Julia on the process behind winning the Silver award for her poster design, and what she has been up to since.

    A photo of Julia holding her winning poster, with the three parakeets adorned on roundels
  2. Blog category
    •  Young People's Skills Programme

    Young People’s Skills Programme

    Young Freelancer Aksana Khan talks about her first big project which involved supporting the Young People’s Skills Programme.

    A group of young people sitting at the back of a bus in the Museum
  3. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Museum Lates

    Exploring London Transport Museum with Skanska engineer, Emma Watkins

    , 2 minute read

    London Transport Museum's volunteer Carrie Long talks to Emma Watkins, site engineer at Skanska, about the past, present and future of engineering in London.

    A model showing workers building the first Underground tunnels
  4. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Museum Lates

    Late Debate: Women of the Future

    , 2 minute read

    As part of our Museum Lates programme, volunteer Carrie Long wrote about her journey of discovery of the history of the Suffragette movement, and how we continue to campaign for equality today.

    An illustration of a woman's head and shoulders on an orange background, advertising a Late Debate Event
  5. Blog category
    •  Posters

    The bright young things who put women centre stage

    , 2 minute read

    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.

    A poster illustration of a merry-go-round, made up of exotic animals, featuring a woman on a zebra
  6. Blog category
    •  Posters

    Happy 80th Birthday Carol Barker

    , 1 minute read

    Join us in wishing Carol Barker a Happy 80th Birthday, and find out more about the artist herself.

    Image of Carol Barker infront of an elephant statue
  7. Blog category
    •  Posters

    The first women poster pioneers

    , 2 minute read

    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!

    Poster advert for Kew Gardens by tram, featuring a river surrounded by bare trees
  8. Blog category
    •  Young People's Skills Programme

    In memory of Khadija Saye 1992 - 2017

    , 2 minute read

    Reflecting on the life of Khadija Saye (1992-2017) and her time as Young Freelancer with the Museum's Learning team.

    A photo of two women, teaching children on a tour