Islington Museum
Explore Islington’s stories of the people, the places and the ideas that created our borough. The Friends of Islington Museum support the museum in all its activities!
Get involved to learn about the borough’s hidden histories, explore our collections and learn about what makes Islington such a fascinating place to live, work, and play.
Islington Museum
Visit to explore Islington’s story through free exhibitions and programming.
Current Exhibition
Our Islington: Art of the Borough
Celebrating Islington’s artists, with chances to add your own creations. 12/09/24 – 12/01/24
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Islington Archives
Visit to do hands-on exploration of our archive of 100,000+ documents related to the borough.
Islington Heritage Projects
Learn about how we are conserving Islington’s heritage and bringing art to the borough.
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Away from the Western Front : 25th August – 31th August, 1917.
Back into the Front Line In order to allow soldiers to cope with the stress of trench life and fighting, British army practice was to rotate divisions between the front and rear lines for rest periods. However, although the troops were away from direct shelling or carrying out trench raids, these ‘rest’ periods often included working on defences and…
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Away from the Western Front : 12th – 24th August, 1917.
Major-General S W Hare and the 54th Divisional Training Camp Major-General Steuart Hare, the regular army officer commanding the 54th Division, believed strongly that Territorial soldiers could reach the same standard as those in the regular army. This was not a widespread view – the pre-war prejudice against the ‘Saturday night soldiers’ or the ‘town clerks’ army’ of the Territorial…
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Away from the Western Front : 30th July – 11th August, 1917.
Reinforcing the Redoubts and Reinforcing the Battalion By summer 1917, the drafts of men sent out to join the 54th Division were no longer drawn automatically from the training battalions of the Finsbury Rifles and the other battalions in the division. Conscripts rather than volunteers were replacing men who had a local or regional…
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Away from the Western Front : 28th – 29th July, 1917.
Captain Tattersall DSO The warning recorded about the dangerous currents off the beaches near Gaza proved to be horribly accurate. The war diary, usually so concise and impersonal, recorded the death and funeral of Captain Tattersall with more detail than usual. Philip Tattershall had grown up in the Gray’s Inn Road in Holborn, not far from the Finsbury…
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Away from the Western Front : 15th – 27th July, 1917.
Umbrella Hill Umbrella Hill: the most advanced of the redoubts guarding Gaza.James McBey © IWM (Art.IWM ART 1520)“…British infantrymen advance at night across No Man’s Land towards Turkish positions on Umbrella Hill, which rises up gently in the right background. The British soldiers, carrying rifles, move out of their advanced trenches in the left of the…
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