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Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum

All nations have an excess of history. But none more so than the nation-states that were once nation-empires. The 1960s ...
Wall Street Journal

An Incomplete Picture at London’s Imperial War Museum

The Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917 so we would never forget the horrors of modern war, but it is unsure how to remember Britain’s modern history. Britain is no longer imperial. The mass ...
Observer

At London’s Imperial War Museum, Tim Hetherington’s Unorthodox War Photography

Photograph taken by photojournalist Tim Hetherington during the Libyan Revolution in Misrata, Libya, scanned from negatives at Imperial War Museum. Dean Moore Tim Hetherington was not a war ...
Daily Press

World Focus: Britain’s imperial war museums

Mitchell Reiss, the former president and CEO of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, was recently appointed the chairman of the British Imperial War Museums Foundation. He is following in the post ...

Tributes paid to Battle of Imjin veteran

A museum has paid tribute to a Korean War veteran following his death aged 94. Brian Hamblett was born in Gloucester in 1931 ...
Stars and Stripes

Digital tour sheds light on Korean War fight, UK’s bloodiest battle since WWII

SEOUL, South Korea — British expatriates commemorating the United Kingdom’s role in the Korean War have launched a video walking tour marking their country’s bloodiest battle since World War II. The ...