War & Weapons
Explore objects, stories and blogs that unravel London’s long history of conflict.
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War & Weapons
War & Weapons
‘Munitionettes’ & women’s football in the First World War
The official sport of women factory workers in wartime
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
Silvertown 1917: London’s largest explosion
73 people died when an east London factory making TNT caught fire and exploded
From our experts
From our experts
J Smythe: The Second World War navigator & his Windrush story
By any measure, Johnny Smythe led an extraordinary life
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Photography
Photography
City bomb damage, Fore Street Warehouse (silver gelatin print)
Cross, Arthur, Tibbs, Fred
1940
