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IWM was founded on 5 March 1917 when the War Cabinet approved a proposal by Sir Alfred Mond MP for the creation of a national war museum to record the events still taking place during the Great War. The intention was to collect and display material as a record of everyone’s experiences during that war - civilian and military - and to commemorate the sacrifices of all sections of society. The interest taken by the Dominion governments led to the renaming of the National War Museum to Imperial War Museum later in 1917. It was formally established by Act of Parliament in 1920 and a governing Board of Trustees appointed. The museum was opened in the Crystal Palace by King George V on 9 June 1920. From 1924 to 1935 it was housed in two galleries adjoining the former Imperial Institute, South Kensington. On 7 July 1936, the Duke of York, shortly to become King George VI, reopened the museum in its present home on Lambeth Road, South London, formerly the central portion of Bethlem Royal Hospital, or ‘Bedlam’. With the onset of war in 1939 IWM’s remit was extended to include the Second World War. While a programme of collecting got underway, vulnerable collections were evacuated to stores outside London, and the museum was closed to the public from September 1940 to November 1946. Most of the exhibits survived the war, but a Short Seaplane which had flown at the Battle of Jutland was shattered when a German bomb fell on the Naval Gallery on 31 January 1941. This was just one of more than 40 incendiary hits on the building throughout the war. The Korean War led to a further redefinition of the IWM’s terms of reference to include all conflicts in which British or Commonwealth forces had been involved since 1914. IWM has therefore continued to collect every type of evidence documenting its very broad remit. Its collections are vast and rich, and in addition to its role as a museum, IWM is also a major national art gallery, a national archive of written and audio visual recourse, and a centre for research. During the 1970s and 1980s IWM underwent a period of unprecedented expansion, with the establishment of three new branches – IWM Duxford in 1976, HMS Belfast in 1978 and Churchill War Rooms in 1984. The fifth member of the IWM family, IWM North, opened in Trafford, Greater Manchester, on 5 July 2002.

09-07-2024

The worst military defeat of all time? | Operation Bagration, 1944

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21-06-2024

The reason Germany failed on D-Day (Ft. Jonathan Ferguson)

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24-05-2024

The (unsung) naval operations that made D-Day possible

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24-04-2024

Messerschmitt Bf 109 | Better than the Spitfire?

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23-04-2024

The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

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23-02-2024

Historys deadliest bomber | B-29 Superfortress

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23-02-2024

Why did Spitfires change their guns? Ft. Jonathan Ferguson

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23-02-2024

How RAF Tornados destroyed Saddams Air Force

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23-02-2024

The Spitfires most feared opponent

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23-02-2024

Hiding in plain sight: Photo-mapping Nazi Germany

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23-02-2024

How the 8th Air Force defeated the Luftwaffe

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30-11-2023

A PICTURE COMPILATION OF SOME OF THE ACTION THAT TOOK PLACE FROM D-DAY TO D+3 III

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30-11-2023

A PICTURE COMPILATION OF SOME OF THE ACTION THAT TOOK PLACE FROM D-DAY TO D+3 II

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30-11-2023

Title: A PICTURE COMPILATION OF SOME OF THE ACTION THAT TOOK PLACE FROM D-DAY TO D+3

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28-07-2023

DEPARTURE FROM UK FOR NORMANDY INVASION (PART 2)

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28-07-2023

THE 3RD DIVISION REHEARSES ITS D-DAY INVASION ROLE DURING OPERATION "FABIUS IV" (PART 2)

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28-07-2023

THE 3RD DIVISION REHEARSES ITS D-DAY INVASION ROLE DURING OPERATION "FABIUS IV" (PART 3)

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28-07-2023

LANDINGS ON SWORD BEACH, 6 JUNE 1944 (PART 3)

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28-07-2023

Amazing Colour Footage Of London During The Blitz

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28-07-2023

Britain at War by Rosie Newman/ Footage from the home front by Rosie Newman

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28-07-2023

D-Day Landings on Sword Beach

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28-07-2023

Vera Lynn visits troops, 1944

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28-07-2023

A video call from Burma during the Second World War

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28-07-2023

The Battle of the Bulge | Hitler’s failed Ardennes Offensive

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28-07-2023

Why Operation Market Garden failed

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28-07-2023

Why the Merlin engine was essential to the war

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28-07-2023

The First World War soldiers who were deliberately forgotten

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28-07-2023

Why the dreadnoughts barely fought in WW1

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28-07-2023

Further coberage of the ceremony at the british military cementery at Bayeux, France, on the seventh aniversary of Day-D, 6 june 1951

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28-07-2023

Batlle of the Somme V (British forces, chiefly 7th and 29th Divisions, on the first day of the Somme offensive, Western Front, 1 July 1916)

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28-07-2023

Batlle of the Somme IV (British forces, chiefly 7th and 29th Divisions, on the first day of the Somme offensive, Western Front, 1 July 1916)

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28-07-2023

Batlle of the Somme III (British forces, chiefly 7th and 29th Divisions, on the first day of the Somme offensive, Western Front, 1 July 1916

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28-07-2023

Batlle of the Somme II (British forces, chiefly 7th and 29th Divisions, on the first day of the Somme offensive, Western Front, 1 July 1916)

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28-07-2023

Battle of the Somme (British forces, chiefly 7th and 29th Divisions, on the first day of the Somme offensive, Western Front, 1 July 1916)

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28-07-2023

The RAFs first jet fighter | As good as the Me 262

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28-07-2023

Blitzkrieg tactics explained | How Hitler invaded France WW2

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28-07-2023

Germany planned for a short war | What went wrong?

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28-07-2023

The US fighter that destroyed over 7000 enemy aircraft

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28-07-2023

Battle of North Cape: HMS Belfast and the sinking of the Scharnhorst

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28-07-2023

The Second Battle of El Alamein | Turning point in North Africa

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28-07-2023

The Battle of Stalingrad | Doomed from the start?

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28-07-2023

Germany planned for a short war. What went wrong?

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28-07-2023

The Ardennes Offensive Part 2 - Hold at All Cost

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28-07-2023

The Ardennes Offensive Part 1 - A Calculated Risk

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