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London Imperial War Museum Presents 25th Anniversary Exhibition

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War, Imperial War Museum London is launching The Falklands, a new special exhibition that explores the people behind the most recent invasion of a British territory since the Second World War, on view from 16 May 2007 to 6 January 2008,

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Death March Diary

On Tuesday 1 March 2007 at a special event hosted by Imperial War Museum London, Isobel Pravda will read extracts from the diary written by her grandmother Hana Maria Pravda, during a death march from Auschwitz-Birkenau in January 1945.

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Holocaust Memorial Day At Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museum London will commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day in the following ways:

Holocaust Memorial Day lecture: The 'crime without a name': Britain and the Holocaust

25 January 2007, 7.00pm: Lecture by Martin Smith showing how news of massacres and death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland reached London in 1942 and how the British Government reacted.

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Oil Paintings In Public Ownership In The Imperial War Museum

By the end of the First World War the Imperial War Museum held the most important collection of contemporary British art in the country. Augmented by subsequent war artist schemes, the collection now offers a fascinating insight into twentieth century warfare both on the front line and at home.

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Oil Paintings In Public Ownership In The Imperial War Museum

By the end of the First World War the Imperial War Museum held the most important collection of contemporary British art in the country. Augmented by subsequent war artist schemes, the collection now offers a fascinating insight into twentieth century warfare both on the front line and at home.

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Kids Can Be Free At Christmas

One of the country's most popular tourist attractions will be open over the Christmas holiday period - thereby offering a respite from the Christmas festivities. Better still, it's free to children under 16 years old.

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