World wars
World at war | Museums Journal, 1930-1960
As Museums Journal marks 125 years of reporting, Geraldine Kendall Adams looks at how world war two and new thinking about cultural value shaped the sector from 1930 to 1960
IWM acquires Dame Vera Lynn wartime archive
Collection of second world war entertainer includes fan letters and personal diary
Royal Engineers Museum seeks duplicates of valuable D-Day files lost in van theft
Almost 2,000 technical documents relating to Mulberry Harbours destroyed in criminal incident
Trent Park House of Secrets gets funding to research stories of ‘secret listeners’
Museum housed in wartime eavesdropping headquarters is due to open in 2026
Plans underway to create spy museum in London’s Blitz tunnels
Military Intelligence Museum in partnership to develop new underground heritage attraction
First director appointed for Trent Park House of Secrets
Giuseppe Albano named chief of new museum dedicated to WWII ‘secret listeners’
Imperial War Museum’s war medal exhibition closing to make way for post-WWII galleries
Lord Ashcroft 'sad' over shutdown of gallery funded by his £5m donation
War in mind | Exploring the psychological impact of conflict
An exhibition on how humans start, experience and make sense of war feels very relevant at a time when there are major conflicts in Africa, Europe and the Middle East
The art of war | Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries, Imperial War Museum, London
Katy Barrett discovers the power of visual art in directing our view of war
Code of honour | The Intelligence Factory, Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire
This redisplay decodes the codebreakers by placing them at the heart of the story
