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.
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Josh Burrell, Senior Press Officer at TfL, shares insights of his experience as a member of the Advisory Board behind our exhibition, Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce.
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Reflections on the making of Sunday's best
28 February 2022, 2 minute readThe cast and crew of Sunday's best, one of the films commissioned for our new exhibition Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce, reflect on the experience of making the film.
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How we made our new exhibition Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce
By Laura Sleath, 28 January 2022, 2 minute readFind out how we developed our exhibition, Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce, working closely with an Advisory Board made up of people of Caribbean heritage, in this blog by Senior Curator Laura Sleath.
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Celebrating 30 years of our Corporate Membership programme
By Sam Mullins, OBE, 29 April 2021, 2 minute readThanks to our Corporate Membership programme, over the past 30 years we have established relationships with the extended transport industry, and the support of our corporate members has enabled our journey to becoming the world’s leading museum of urban transport. Find out more about the programme in this blog by Museum Director Sam Mullins.
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Untangling the Tracks: communicating change
22 October 2019, 2 minute readSenior 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, 24 July 2019, 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.
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Poster Girls - Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964)
4 July 2018, 1 minute readDavid Bownes, co-curator of our Poster Girls exhibition, talks about one of the illustrators featured in the exhibition, Mabel Lucie Attwell.