I went to the exhibition yesterday (I was in London for other business). Not
worth a special trip, in my opinion. There is a video with the well-known
footage now shown permanenty at the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum
in Whitehall, and a few artefacts (guns, etc).
One exhibit might thrill visitors, however : the black coat with astrakhan
fur collar actually worn by Churchill in Sidney Street, 1911.
The caption says that is was loaned by the Churchill family. This puzzled
me - apart from the clothes and accessories on display at Chartwell and the
Churchill Museum, I wonder how much is left of the considerable wardrobe
which Churchill must have accumulated over the years (as this 1911 coat
seems to indicate), and where exactly what remains of it is now stored "in
the Churchill family".
Apart from this, the Museum of London Docklands also runs a video of 1940
"Blitz" footage shot immediately after the first great German raid on the
docks, 7-8 September 1940. Churchill and Clementine are seen to reach the
area on a launch going down the Thames. I was familiar with newsreels
showing him (them?) walking among the debris in the East End, but I never
realised they had come, not in an official car, but via the Thames. No doubt
this grim river trip is recorded somewhere ? I am away from Rouen Library
and the relevant volumes of the Official Biography and Companions.
Best wishes to all,
A.C.
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From: "Antoine Capet" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 7:16 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [ChurchillChat] Museum of London Docklands exhibition : Churchill
and the Anarchists, 1911
To commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the siege of Sidney Street and
Houndsditch Murders, the Museum of London Docklands will open London Under
Siege: Churchill and the Anarchists, 1911.
London under siege: Churchill and the anarchists, 1911 runs until 10 April
2011 at the Museum of London Docklands, entry is free.
http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Special/LondonUnderSiege.htm
Professor Antoine Capet, FRHistS
Head of British Studies
University of Rouen
Mont-Saint-Aignan 76821 (France)
'Britain since 1914' Editor,
Royal Historical Society Bibliography
[email protected]
Reviews Editor of Cercles
http://www.cercles.com/review/reviews.html
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