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Terry Charman
Terry Charman (29 July 1950 – 15 February 2019) was an historian and curator at the Imperial War Museum and author. He was born at Kingston upon Thames and educated at Kingston Grammar School and then the University of Reading. After a brief career in banking he joined the Imperial War Museum as an historian. He died of cancer and joked that during his illness he had had more morphine than Hermann Goering Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, Miss .... Selected publications * ''The German Home Front 1939-45'' (1989) * ''Outbreak: The World Goes to War'' (2010) * ''The First World War on the Home Front'' (2014) References External links *https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/how-britain-learnt-to-live-on-rations-1868592.html 1950 births 2019 deaths En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial War Museum
Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of Britain and British Empire, its Empire during the First World War. The museum's remit has since expanded to include all conflicts in which British or Commonwealth forces have been involved since 1914. As of 2012, the museum aims "to provide for, and to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and 'wartime experience'." Originally housed in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill, the museum opened to the public in 1920. In 1924, the museum moved to space in the Imperial Institute in South Kensington, and finally in 1936, the museum acquired a permanent home that was previously the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Southwark. The outbreak of the Second World War saw the museum expand both its coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
