‘We cannot say with what eyes posterity will regard this museum nor what ideas it will rouse in their minds’ – King George V opening the Imperial War Museum on 9th June 1920

On the morning of Saturday 19th July, having slept through my alarm, I scrambled out of bed to rush to the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, south London, which was reopening to the public after months of refurbishment. It reopens with the new First World War Galleries to coincide with the centenary. Continue reading →