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22 June 2021
The Museum of London has acquired an ensemble from London fashion designer Tihara Smith’s ‘Windrush collection’ along with a suit owned by her grandfather. Both pieces, and oral histories recorded for the museum by Tihara, her mother and her grandfather have been made available to explore on the Museum of London website to mark Windrush Day 2021.
Designed as part of Smith’s UCA Epsom graduate collection in 2018, and selected for display at Graduate Fashion Week, the outfit specifically references the story of her grandfather Lazare Sylvestre, who arrived in the UK from St. Lucia in 1958 as part of the Windrush generation.
The Earth Hall at Natural History Museum. Image: Matt Brown
Almost a year after the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the UK disrupting the education of millions of children and young people families and teachers across the nation are once again getting to grips with remote education.
Whether you re a parent who s struggling to engage a reluctant home learner or a teacher on the hunt for fresh lesson plan inspiration, some of London s biggest cultural institutions may just be able to help. Read on to see what sort of learning resources are on offer from the likes of the British Library, the Science Museum and many more.