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Exploring Berlin as a Cold War City in IWM’s Research Room Blog writtern by Annabel Sheen, a second year Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD student at Imperial War Museums and the University of Bristol, who details her experience using the museum’s Research Room and archive. -
H. T. Alexander: A British Officer Serving in a Newly Independent African Country 2024 thus marks the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives 60th anniversary. In those intervening years we have gathered the personal papers of over 800 senior defence personnel, and we thought this birthday year was a great opportunity to showcase just some of the items from the collection. This blog spotlights The Archive of Major-General Henry Templer Alexander (1911-1977) from this collection. -
Memories of 1947 between Rawalpindi and Delhi. Partition told through the eyes of VN Luthra On May the 20th 2022, I interviewed Mr. V N Luthra, who shared his experiences of Partition in India. Mr. Luthra was born in 1935, where he lived in Bhabra Bazaar, Rawalpindi until he was twelve years old. He then made the traumatic and emotional crossing over the border from what is now present-day Pakistan to Delhi, India. -
Memories of Partition: homeland, displacement and diasporic communities, sharing their narratives While growing up, I can vividly recall the 1947 partition stories that my father would share with my siblings and myself. They were harrowing, emotional and yet at the same time empowering accounts of what dad and our family had to overcome. -
Partition Memories Exhibition This blog post reviews the Partition Memories exhibition at SOAS Library -
Peace and Internationalism This page highlights LSE Library's collections on peace and internationalism -
Resistance, Rights and Refuge: Britain and Chile 50 years after the Chilean coup September 2023 marks 50 years since the violent military overthrow of Chile’s democratically elected left-wing Popular Unity government. An exhibition curated by Tanya Harmer and Gloria Miqueles at LSE Library explores the importance of marking this anniversary at a time when democracy around the world is, once again, under threat. -
The Radical Rhetoric of the Common Wealth Party in Political Literature, 1942-1945 Hello, I’m John Concagh, the current MA Intern at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Over the last few months, I’ve been working on the Archival Collection of Tom Wintringham, the radical writer, activist, politician, and Spanish Civil War Veteran. Within the collection are papers covering Common Wealth, a radical political movement he formed a key part of.