Blog

David Bownes, co-curator of our Poster Girls exhibition, talks about one of the illustrators featured in the exhibition, Mabel Lucie Attwell.

In the lead-up to the 70th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush, Siddy Holloway gives a first-hand account of welcoming a very special guest back to Clapham South deep-level shelter for the first time in 70 years.

Find out about Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, the husband and wife designer duo who shared artistic and marital equality.

Find out more about the Zinkeisen sisters and how their portrayal of women in their poster designs could have been deemed 'racy' in the 1930s.

Join us in wishing Carol Barker a Happy 80th Birthday, and find out more about the artist herself.

Find out more about the progressive steps of Frank Pick in commissioning women to produce adverts for the Underground, from the first poster by a woman appearing in 1910 to an increase in female artists to 25% by 1930!

Discover why a small item in our collection became more than just a model to display in our new Digging Deeper gallery, but an important piece of tunnelling history.

Did you know that we have a 'pirate' bus in our collection? Find out more about the Chocolate Express bus on display at the Museum Depot, and why it is known as a pirate bus from the 1920s.