Poet Dan Simpson introduces the On the Cotton project, and explains the creative connections he developed between London's poets and black cab drivers.
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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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- Contemporary Curators
Women’s Safety and Welfare - A new collecting project
17 May 2022, 2 minute readAs 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.
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- Contemporary Curators
'I helped open the Elizabeth line' - Documenting contemporary transport history
9 May 2022, 2 minute readDocumentary Curator Rosamund West shares her memories of the Elizabeth line trial operations day at Woolwich station.
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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- Guest blog
- Exhibitions
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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- Exhibitions
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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- Contemporary Curators
- Collections
A brief history of tran-sports!
By Ellie Miles, 11 September 2020, 1 minute readDid 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.