Boats, Planes and the War time communications – these are the themes for our next three Putting Art on the Map live events. We are asking the public to help us explore and enrich the Imperial War Museums’ First World War art collections and help us locate and solve some of the mysteries that these fabulous paintings it holds.
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Dazzled Leave Ships, Boulogne by Charles Bryant.
February’s Events
Crowdsourcing Postal and Telecommunications History During the First World War
Date: Monday 10 February 2014
Time: 1 – 4pm
Location: Royal Mail Archive, Freeling House, Phoenix Pl, London WC1X 0DL
Crowdsourcing Aviation History of the First World War
Date: Saturday 22 February 2014
Time 1 – 3pm. Optional Museum tour at 3pm.
Location IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR
Crowdsoursing the Maritime History of the First World War
Date: Thursday 27 February 2014
Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Location: Steam, Steel and Submarines Gallery, The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TE
So far we have run sessions all over the country – in Edinburgh, York and even in the wonderful Gordon Museum in the heart of London. We’ve found out some pretty cool stuff too. Not only have we located over 90 images across Europe, but we’ve had some amazing insights into art works along the way. From well know art works like John Nash’s Over the Top right through to little known artworks like this sketch of ‘The Church, Sailly-au-Bois’ by Geoffrey K Rose placed back into the scenes where the artist sketched.
Image may be NSFW.
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All of this has been made possible by people getting involved. We want you to help us right now by going to solve some mysteries on Putting Art on the Map, or if you like planes, boats or have a passion for communications technologies of the past then why not come to one of our live events?
To book a place at any of our events, or for more information about Putting Art on the Map and how you can get involved just email historypin@wearewhatwedo.org
