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    •  Director's Blog

    Next stop…2024!

    19 December 2023, 5 minute read

    As 2023 draws to a close, Museum CEO, Elizabeth McKay takes us on a tour of her highlights of the year.

    Elizabeth stands at the back of a vintage Routemaster bus in London Transport Museum.
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    The Art of the Poster - London Transport at War: Second World War

    By Nick Gill, 21 April 2022, 3 minute read

    A look at wartime posters commissioned by London Transport during the Second World War, with Museum Depot volunteer Nick Gill.

    Illustration of a man, woman and child in a field
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    The Art of the Poster - London Transport at War: First World War

    By Nick Gill, 5 April 2022, 3 minute read

    Museum Depot volunteer Nick Gill presents a selection of posters commissioned by the UERL during the First World War, in the first instalment in a series of blogs exploring wartime posters in our collection.

    Illustration of women dragging a horse drawn carriage in a field
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    •  Director's Blog

    Director's Blog - Top things to look forward to in 2022

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 26 January 2022, 2 minute read

    Museum Director Sam Mullins shares highlights of our programme for 2022, from a new exhibition and the return of our Friday Lates, to Hidden London in-person tours and the new seasons of Secrets of the London Underground and Hidden London Hangouts

    View of the museum's ground floor with people walking around tube trains and buses
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    A brief history of the pocket Underground map

    By Nick Gill, 17 December 2021, 4 minute read

    From the first map produced by the UERL in 1908 to the revolutionary Harry Beck design and its modern iterations, enjoy a brief history of the Underground map by Museum volunteer Nick Gill.

    Map of the Undeground