As part of a new collecting project documenting women’s safety and welfare on the transport network, we are hosting an event at the Museum on 23 May 2022 to discuss these issues across the heritage sector. Find out more in this blog by Documentary Curator, Rosamund West.
Documentary Curator Rosamund West shares her memories of the Elizabeth line trial operations day at Woolwich station.
Did you know that London Underground has its own football league? And that London transport sports teams history dates back to the early twentieth century? Contemporary Curator Ellie Miles tells you more in this blog.
Contemporary collecting involves people making decisions about preserving lived experience, knowledge, stories and objects and as such can venture into complicated ethical territory. Ellie Miles, together with other Museum practitioners, has created a toolkit which aims to be a useful resource for people embarking on contemporary collecting.
We partnered up with museum freelancer Sacha Coward and invited people to use the #MyJourneyToPride hashtag to document and share their stories of travelling to Pride in London and UK Black Pride 2019. We also asked some people to record video diaries of their journeys in order to create a picture of the lived experience of a group of people from the LGBT+ community in London in 2019. Find out what happened.
Documentary Curator Ellie Miles introduces our new My Journey to Pride project - asking you to document your journey to 2019 pride parades
Susanna Cordner explores our Social Stations projects, celebrating how community and grassroots projects are reclaiming spaces at stations for public and/or environmental benefit
Gonzalo de Ana Rodríguez – Transport for London employee and member of OUTbound , TfL’s LGBT+ Staff Network – shares how London transport has shaped his relationships and experiences.
