Tag: Blog Post
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Finsbury Rifles: Away from the Western Front. 20th October – 24 October 1916
Out with the mobile column The mobile columns of camels delivered supplies from the railhead at El Kubri to the outposts of the Suez Canal Defences. This also included small forward camps far out in the Sinai Desert that monitored enemy positions. Although the food, water and equipment were vital,…
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Finsbury Rifles : Away from the Western Front. 24th September 1916 to 19th October
Sidi Bishr Sidi Bishr was an extensive Allied army base to the north east of Alexandria. It housed an open-air rest and recuperation camp for other ranks. Men were sent there from the different battalions guarding the Suez Canal during 1916 and appreciated the change of scene and better…
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Finsbury Rifles : Away from the Western Front. 25th August 2016 to 23rd September 1916.
Loading Camels The 1/11 Finsbury Rifles were split at this point. While half the battalion stayed at Halfway House for specialist training and the never-ending maintenance and repair of the defence system, the remaining two companies were sent to the army base at Kubri. This was also the railhead for…
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The Finsbury Rifles: From Islington to Egypt, Palestine and Syria. Private View and Storytelling Celebration!
Islington Museum is one of a number of partners around the country contributing to Away from the Western Front, a two year project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. This project looks to explore the heritage of the men and women from Britain and its former Empire who served in the campaigns…
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Finsbury Rifles: Away from the Western Front. 3rd August to 24th August 1916.
Specialist training Training was carried out intensively whenever a unit was away from the front line. It formed an important part of a soldier’s life, especially given the rapid development of new tactics and technologies as well as the large turnover of men in any given unit. On top of…
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Finsbury Rifles: Away from the Western Front. 17th July to 2nd August 1916.
Work on defences The defence posts by the Suez Canal included a network of communication trenches. Maintaining these trenches was a never ending task involving an immense amount of hard physical labour by the men. The trenches were lined with sandbags and boards but these gradually rotted away because of…
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Yao Blog 3
This is the last day I work in Islington Museum and I spent a fantastic morning with Julie Melrose, the archivist of Islington Local History Centre who gave me a mesmerising introduction to the centre and briefly the history of London borough of Islington and Finsbury. Then I got some…
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Dadabhai Naoroji Photo Album and Presentation Box, 1892
The constituency of Central Finsbury elected Britain’s first Asian MP in 1892. This album and its presentation box were gifted by the people of Bombay (now Mumbai) to commemorate Dadhabai Naoroji’s election. He served as MP for Central Finsbury until his defeat in 1895. Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) was born near…
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Yao Blog 2
The first thing I started in Islington Museum was to check the objects’ locations in the small store. In order to handle collections appropriately, Roz introduced me all the must-dos in different cases and circumstances. I finished roughly six shelves full of objects, registering their numbers, names and descriptions as…
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Yao Blog 1
My name is Yao and I am studying Digital Humanities in UCL. In 2016 I earned my bachelor of art degree in Advertising from Sichuan University in China. During the term time, I was the vice president of the youth media department of Sichuan University, in responsibility of operating media…
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