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Celebrating the pioneering doctors of the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW)
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Celebrating the pioneering doctors of the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW) Women have been practicing medicine in Britain for thousands of years. Through the Middle Ages, wise-women or healers treated diseases and other ailments with herbal remedies. They also practiced midwifery – assisting with childbirth – with the word itself coming ...
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V&A Innovate 2023 – 24 | Overall Winners’ visit to architecture studio V&A Innovate Overall Winners for 2023-24, Central Foundation Girls’ School, went with V&A Schools & Colleges team members to Peckham-based architecture firm Kennedy Woods as their workshop prize. The student group had responded to the theme of ‘Play’ in reinterpreting ...
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Royal Flying Corps and Successors: World War One Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards Released
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Royal Flying Corps and Successors: World War One Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards Released The National Archives, in partnership with Forces War Records, the leading military family history website from Ancestry®, has launched a digital collection of Royal Flying Corps and successors: World War One Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards. 
The collection contains almost 12,000 ...
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New initiative to improve access to Holocaust-related collections
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New initiative to improve access to Holocaust-related collections We have become a founding member of EHRI-UK – the national body representing Holocaust-related collections in the United Kingdom. The other founding members are the Wiener Holocaust Library, the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London and the ...
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The National Archives to create centre of excellence for heritage science and conservation research
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The National Archives to create centre of excellence for heritage science and conservation research  
We have been awarded £1.3m to upgrade our analytical research laboratory creating a centre of excellence available to collections throughout the UK and beyond.
The award is part of the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council’s new Research Infrastructure for Conservation ...
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In memory of Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll  We were very saddened to learn of the recent loss of Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll. Dame Elizabeth was Director of the V&A 1987 to 1995, following a successful period as Head of the National Art Library....
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Saul Nassé presents first Archive Service Accreditation certificate
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Saul Nassé presents first Archive Service Accreditation certificate Our Chief Executive and Keeper, Saul Nassé, has presented his first Archive Service Accreditation certificate since joining The National Archives in the summer.
Saul presented the certificate to Westminster City Archives, the local authority archive for the City of Westminster, who ...
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Four photographers snap behind-the-scenes in a museum store ‘Photography for museums is often very clean, crisp, light, and bright. But I wanted to bring that rougher, more authentic feel’ says photographer Vicky Grout. When it came to photographing our new storehouse – now home to a collection of ...
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V&A Illustration Awards 2024 – the winners! The 2024 V&A Illustration Award winners have now been announced!   A record of over 2000 entries were submitted, covering artwork from the period 2022-2023. Our winners this year draw on a wide range of inspiration,...
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Evaluation resources This is guest post from Ulrike Chouguley, Director of Santra Consulting Few people now disagree that evaluation is important – whether for a cultural heritage organisation as a whole, a specific project or programme, or...
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Art Attack: the vandalism of artworks by the suffragettes, and how the V&A prepared for... The V&A has been collecting press cuttings since 1831. Between April 1913 and July 1914, newspapers reported on a spate of attacks at British museums and galleries as suffragettes tried to force the UK Government...
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A refreshed Flight gallery looks to the skies
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A refreshed Flight gallery looks to the skies You are not starting from scratch and must instead work with what is already on display. So when we decided our ever-popular Flight gallery needed a bit of a revamp the team had to work carefully, cleverly and quickly to ...
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Happy Birthday Louise Brown!
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Happy Birthday Louise Brown! However, her start in life was far more extraordinary – Louise Brown was the first baby to be born after being conceived by in vitro fertilisation (IVF). An updated display in the Who Am I? gallery showcases Louise’s story and ...
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Why most of us are right-handed, and prefer to view faces on the left
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Why most of us are right-handed, and prefer to view faces on the left Many creatures across the animal kingdom prefer to use one side of the body over another, just as humans do: 90 per cent of people using their right hands as their ‘write hands.’ 
Every person should have a 50-50 chance of ...
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The Future of Spaceflight 
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The Future of Spaceflight  I’m going to speculate about the far future of spaceflight.
But let’s start with the near term. The Apollo programme – humans’ first footprints on another world – was an epochal event.  The Apollo astronauts were heroes – they accepted high ...
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Galleries that inspire
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Galleries that inspire National museums such as the five that make up the Science Museum Group, which I’m privileged to Chair, are in the fortunate position of receiving some Government funding. It is critical to our responsibilities in caring for the national collections ...
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How open source air quality data is helping inform Londoners about the air we breathe
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How open source air quality data is helping inform Londoners about the air we breathe In 2023 an air quality sensor node measuring Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide in the air was installed outside the Science Museum by scientists from Imperial as part of the Mayor of London’s Breathe London Community Programme.
How is ...
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Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day
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Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day Left: Prof. Dr Larissa ‘Lara’ Suzuki; Right: Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley CH.
Engineers and good friends Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley CH and Prof. Dr Larissa ‘Lara’ Suzuki have grown up generations apart, but both work in one of the newest areas ...
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Il Blog del Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale
Il Blog del Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale
Le Lupe di Roma La Lupa Capitolina, conservata nei Musei Capitolini, è una scultura in bronzo del V sec. a.C., realizzata con tecnica della cera persa che raffigura una lupa che ha da poco partorito, come indicano… Continua a leggere →
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Il Blog del Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale
Il Blog del Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale
MUSEO DELLA REPUBBLICA ROMANA E DELLA MEMORIA GARIBALDINA Ormai da anni la Sovrintendenza Capitolina mette a disposizione dei cittadini e dei turisti spazi espositivi e collezioni d’arte ad entrata gratuita con l’intento di promuovere la conoscenza e la fruizione di realtà… Continua a leggere →
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