37 h. ago This small London museum has just been named the best in Europe

This small London museum has just been named the best in Europe  Time Out Worldwide

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3 d. ago ‘They can’t take away your imagination and creativity’: Nazanin Zaghari

Zaghari-Ratcliffe made clothes for her daughter while waiting for her eventual release. Now, the idea of creativity as a form of resistance is the theme of a new collaboration between London’s Imperial War Museum and the fabric department of Liberty. When Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe returned home to London after six years of arbitrary detention in Iran, she brought back with her a small patchwork cushion. Pieced together from scrap material and made with the single sewing machine available in the prison, it was the product of a communal craft circle.“It’s something very, very precious to me,” she said. So precious, in fact, that she has worked on a new collaboration between London’s Imperial War Museum (IWM) and the fabric department of Liberty, creating three new prints that explore experience as a prisoner. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago This small London museum has been named best in Europe for 2026 – and it’s free

It was recognised by the awards body for empowering younger generations

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5 d. ago Egypt says thousands of its artefacts in British Museum are 'part of London's identity'

An Egyptian official claimed the stone was taken from Egypt unlawfully during wartime

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8 d. ago Art deco: the golden age of poster design | London Transport Museum | Art in London

Art deco: the golden age of poster design | London Transport Museum | Art in London  Time Out Worldwide

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9 d. ago IMAX 70mm Season At London Science Museum Extended With Additional Screenings

IMAX 70mm Season At London Science Museum Extended With Additional Screenings  Forbes

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9 d. ago London Museum Docklands opens art show celebrating Romani culture

London Museum Docklands opens art show celebrating Romani culture  BBC

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1 week ago TALK OF THE TOWN: V&A is just not ready for Freddie as it turns down Queen frontman's fashion collection

The personal assistant and confidant of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury said he offered London's Victoria & Albert Museum 1,000 items from Freddie's collection to put on display, but was knocked back

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1 week ago Kalimuendo strikes in Nottingham Forest’s nostalgic European win over Malmö

“Champions of Europe, you’ll never sing that,” came the chant as Nottingham Forest supporters, not for the first time, enjoyed getting one over on Malmö. A lot has happened since Trevor Francis’s stooping header to clinch the European Cup in Munich in 1979 but Forest still cherish those days. A lot has also changed in the five weeks since Sean Dyche took the reins, Forest reinvigorated and a comfortable win thanks to goals by Arnaud Kalimuendo, Ryan Yates and Nikola Milenkovic enhanced their hope of qualifying for the Europa League knockout phase.For Forest, this victory – against a Malmö side that had not played for almost three weeks after finishing sixth in their domestic league – represented a third straight win in all competitions and further built on the momentum gained from last weekend’s success at Liverpool. This was a re-run of Forest’s European Cup triumph in name but the game itself was free of any jeopardy or jitters. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm hired by company linked to Chinese military

Global Counsel signed $3m contract with WuXi AppTec in Europe months after it was named in US national security driveGlobal Counsel, the lobbying firm co-founded by Peter Mandelson, was brought in to advise the Chinese pharmaceutical company WuXi AppTec in Europe months after it was targeted in a US national security crackdown.WuXi AppTec signed a $3m contract with Global Counsel last year to deal with the international fallout from claims that it had links with the Chinese military and was implicated in human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Arsenal: Declan Rice shows he is best midfielder in Europe on night Ballon d'Or winner 'named'

Rice has taken his game to new level and is primed for Moises Caicedo showdown

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2 w. ago Death of London Bagel Museum worker reignites debate over mandatory work

Death of London Bagel Museum worker reignites debate over mandatory work-hour records  The Korea Times

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2 w. ago London exhibition to explore mental health and social bonds in ‘polarised’ times

Artworks to go on display in January at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the world’s oldest psychiatric hospitalFrom images of empty community rooms and a colourful canvas crammed with caricatures to a baby linked by an umbilical-like cord to a seated stranger, artworks on the subject of mental health are to go on display in an exhibition that examines social bonds against the backdrop of today’s polarised times.Artists have long drawn on their own experiences of mental ill health. Staged at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital, in south-east London, Kindred will explore the power of communities to make people feel comforted as well as isolated. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Stunning vintage London Underground posters go on display at Transport Museum

A third of the iconic vintage posters have never been seen by the public before

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2 w. ago Spanish city named most walkable in Europe — but it's not Barcelona or Madrid

Spain has got a host of cities flooded with tourists every year, but fans of a small yet walkable city are missing out on one city located in the south of the country.

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2 w. ago London Underground Art Deco posters on show at transport museum

London Underground Art Deco posters on show at transport museum  BBC

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2 w. ago wes anderson retrospective at london's design museum features over 700 archival objects

wes anderson retrospective at london's design museum features over 700 archival objects  Designboom

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2 w. ago Wes Anderson: The Archives review – Wesophiles will relish this deep dive into the detail

Design Museum, LondonThe Fantastic Mr Fox’s snappy outfits, an intricate model of the Grand Budapest Hotel and dozens of stop-motion puppets are all among the 700 objects in this sugarcoated quirkfestTerrible things happen in Wes Anderson films. In his latest, The Phoenician Scheme, a man is casually split in half in an aircraft crash. In The Royal Tenenbaums, the patriarchal protagonist feigns a terminal illness in order to weasel his way back into his estranged and dysfunctional family. In The Grand Budapest Hotel the “heroic” concierge Monsieur Gustave is essentially a killer and the fictional Republic of Zubrowka is in the tightening grip of a fascist regime.All this is played for knowing comedic effect (the splatted bisection resembles a Tom and Jerry cartoon; Zubrowka is a brand of Polish bison grass vodka), while lavishly sugarcoated in a set dressing of eccentric curios, outlandish costumes and saturated colour. Anderson aficionados will be familiar with the drill, a bit lik...

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3 w. ago Cynthia Erivo leads the stars at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards hours after Wicked's New York premiere as she joins a racy Maya Jama, Leigh

The stars gathered for the GQ Men Of The Year Awards at the Tate Museum in London on Tuesday night.

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3 w. ago European Christmas market swaps: 5 hidden gems to visit instead of the tourist traps

As big-name markets become inundated with visitors across Europe, these five hidden gems in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin and Copenhagen provide authentic, crowd-free experiences.

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