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Have you seen our new gallery display yet, with displays on 2023 acquisitions and on police dogs for the 70th anniversary of the Met's dog training school and a new selection of Hartley courtroom sketches? Good availability through June.

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We are sad to announce that Leonard "Nipper" Read QPM died this morning aged 95. A Met legend, he is best known for his part in bringing the Kray Twins to justice and his autobiographies hold places of honour in our collections. #RIP #Nipper #NipperRead #coronavirusuk #legend

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Joining less than a year apart, the Met's first male and female Black officers were both members of the #WindrushGeneration . Today and every #WindrushDay we commit to better representing Black officers' stories in our collections. #WindrushDay2020

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Christmas in London. #LBLMAFestive

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#HappyBirthday to Cressida Dick, #BornOnThisDay in Oxford in 1960 and since April 2017 our first-ever female Commissioner! #ThisGirlCan #HeForShe

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Here's the second-ever #TrafalgarTree / @TrafalgarsTree outside @NationalGallery in 1948. #ChristmasTree #MuseXmas #MuseumsTogether

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@HodgeTheCat Not ours exactly, but the station cat at Wellington Arch in the 1950s was called Snooks, for reasons lost in the mists of time. Clear who was really in charge ... 😉😺

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What do you think's happening here? #CaptionThisMW #MuseumWeek #MuseumWeek2021 #EyesFront #AtEaseGentlemen #OnParade #FridayFeeling #InternationalArchivesWeek #IAW2021 #CatsOfTwitter #DogsOfTwitter #PoliceDogs

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Labradors hold two firsts in Met history - in May 1938 at @MPSPeckham two became our first-ever official patrol dogs, whilst last year @PD_DexterWBDOG ("too sociable" for drugs work) became our first-ever wellbeing dog. #LBLMAanimals #DogsOfTwitter #MentalHealthMatters #GoodBoy

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Some #accessories and equipment have proved more useful and long-lasting than others. This handbag was designed in 1986 to hold the new women's truncheon, but the former (often with some heavy contents added) was usually more useful for self-defence than the latter ... #Museum30

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On this #InternationalWomensDay we're remembering the cohort of 20 Met women (headed by Bertha Clayden, right) who survived the 'Geddes Axe' to become the first Met women with the power of arrest 100 years ago this year. #IWD #IWD23 #internationalevrouwendag

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PC: I'm here live, #IAmNotACat . Desk Sergeant: I can see that.

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Two Met officers survey one of the first Trafalgar Square Christmas #tree s outside the @NationalGallery , c.1950s. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #festive #ExploreYourArchive

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One thing we have learnt from our archives is that manure from police horses used to be collected and then either reused on police station gardens or sold to the public to pay for their keep! #Archive30 #ArchiveSustainability #GoodForTheRoses

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Snooks the onetime #pet (or possibly boss?) of Wellington Arch Police Station ... #Museum30

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A festive throwback to the police box. #LBLMAFestive

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If photos like this one (showing Shepherd Market, then in C Division and now in @MPSWestEnd ) were a genre, they'd be 'Police History Noir' ... #FilmNoir #BlackAndWhitePhotography #shadows #silhouette #Museum30

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*Canary* Wharf, anyone? #stretchingapoint #birds #exploreyourarchive

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Here are four of our early women officer #icon s for the price of one ... #Museum30

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Minstrel the cat at the Dog Training School at Keston with (so we're told) several handlers just off camera to the left to get this wonderful shot! #CaptionCompetition #MondayMotivation #CatsOfTwitter #DogsOfTwitter #PoliceDogs #GoodBoys #AtEaseGentlemen #LBLMAanimals

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Photography is an artform, right? #OnlineArtExchange #Cats #CatsOfTwitter #DogsOfTwitter #PoliceDogs #AsYouWere #CaptionCompetition

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#BornOnThisDay in Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1885, Lilian Wyles became one of the Met's first women sergeants in February 1919 & served for thirty years, paving the way for women in CID through her statement-taking in cases involving women & children. #OnThisDay #HappyBirthday #OTD

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For #fashion , Norman Hartnell's colour sketch for the new women's uniform of 1968. A press release praised "its combination of elegance and comfort with utility", whilst a newsreel called it "the new 'with-it' look of Scotland Yard" #Archive30 #MetWomen100 #100yearsstrong

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He came from nothing.* He conquered everything.** * - Joined the Met as a PC. ** - Rose to be Commissioner.

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🎶... and may all your police-boxes be white. 🎶 #MuseumsUnlocked #TARDIS #DoctorWho #Wintertime #snow #Winter #WinterIsComing @BBCDoctorWho

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#OnThisDay 65 years ago the @BBC premiered the first episode of Dixon of Dock Green. The series ran for almost 21 years. #eveningall #ThrowbackThursday #OTD #Dixon65 #DixonOfDockGreen

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A #ThrowbackThursday to this Westminster scene.

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So difficult to choose a #FavouriteItem ! It changes all the time. Current favourite is this image of a Metropolitan Police Driving School lesson in the 1930s. #Archive30

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For #Caturday and #Cats day on #MuseumsUnlocked , who else could it be but Snooks, overseeing the desk sergeant at Wellington Arch police station in the early 1950s? #LongArmOfThePaw #ThinMewLine #Pawperwork #CatsOfTwitter

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It's autumn, perfect weather to wear this 1968 #NormanHartnell designed cloak. #PoliceUniforms 🍂🍁🍂

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As you might imagine, we have quite a sizeable uniform collection. This hi vis jacket is creating a debate among our team - is it #yellow or green? #Museum30

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For today's theme of #portraiture on #OnlineArtExchange , it has to be a virtual loan from @GuildhallArt of Duncan Grant's 1930 portrayal of PC Harry Daley, a Lowestoft-born gay Met officer in 1930s and 40s London. #policewithpride #lgbt #ThursdayThoughts @MetLGBTNetwork

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Never ones to miss a double-tagging opportunity, here's the ultimate obedience test from 1987! #CLHCGAnimals #InternationalCatDay #AtEaseGentlemen

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#InternationalPuppyDay #Floof #MetFloof #DogsOfTwitter #PoliceDogs

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Our 1937 portfolio of uniform images includes this one, with the all-important shortened cyclists' great-coat ... #LBLMAuniform

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Open-air drinking is nothing new on W (Clapham) Division (once the on-duty armband is off, naturally) ... #InternationalBeerDay #InternationalBeerDay2021 #FridayFeeling #Friyay #RuleOfSix #alfresco #MinesAPint

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From 1911 officers were allowed to take their own dogs on night patrol. Their choice of name was often not too original, however ... (1 - No. 3 Devonport Division; 2-3 @MPSWhitechapel , 1914) #LBLMAanimals #DogsOfTwitter #PoliceDogs #GoodBoy #MondayMotivation (CC @MPSTowerHam )

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We're kicking off #LBLMAanimals with Snooks of Wellington Arch, not only our most famous ever station mascot but also a star of @BritishPathe () ... #CatsOfTwitter

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Not only for #WorldBeardDay , but also an excellent example of the ridged 'coxcomb' helmet, worn by the Met 1863-1870 and still sported by @CityPoliceCops ...

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Sad to hear of the passing of Sislen Fay Allen. In 1968 she became the first black female police officer in the Met at @MPSCroydon . #RIP

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On the move! #Movement #Museum30

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Women officers first gained the power of arrest in 1923, so the earliest attestation signatures we have of women officers date to April that year. A 2020 donation enabled us to put an image to the first signature on the page, Violet Butcher. #Archive30 #ArchivePeople #Centenary

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For the opening day of #LondonFashionWeek , a short thread on 102 years of Met women's uniforms and how they developed as expectations of their wearers evolved. First up, the long-skirted 1919 uniform, commissioned from @Harrods . #LFW #LFW2021 #LondonFashionWeek2021 (1/n)

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In the beginning, this passed as suitable attire for undercover policing #OnceUponAtimeMW #MuseumWeek #ARRRRDivision

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This set of tiny test tubes, bottles and other items was a medical examiner's kit, a kind of early precursor to the more recent 'murder bag' developed in the 1920s by forensic pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury. #LBLMAGiantAndTiny

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One of the more unusual duties on the beat in 1930, involving the @cpdinosaurs ... #MuseumsUnlocked #humour

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It's big coat weather! #Textile #Museum30

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A new month, a new theme - here is a late 1940s to 1950s case full of forensics tools, with later additions and updates. More commonly known as the 'murder bag', it was instituted by @ukhomeoffice pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury in 1924. #CLHCGTools #CrimeMuseumUncovered

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We have quite the collection of maps, this beat map of perhaps the most famous sub-division of E (Holborn) Division being one example. #Archive30 #ArchiveCollection

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A new month, a new monthly Twitter collaboration, this time with members of the Central London Historic Collections Group (CLHCG). February's theme is #CLHCGColourful and we promise we'll find some items from our collections that *aren't* blue ...

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Ever since 1829 Met officers' siblings and children have often followed in #family footsteps. Bertha Clayden (our first female Inspector with the power of arrest) was daughter to one officer & sister to three more. #PoliceFamily #festive #ExploreYourArchive #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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Time to work. #CLHCGAnimals #MetDogs

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Someone didn't get the memo that we'd moved to Woolwich ...

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#internationalbeerday

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Our choice for #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay just has to be this Wellington Barracks scene from 1867, with the officers wearing the new ridged 'coxcomb' helmet, later abandoned by the Met but still sported by @CityPoliceCops . #ARRRdivision

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‘Two tone’ air horn sirens were introduced on the Met's Rover police cars in 1966. #LBLMAsounds

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#BornOnThisDay in Lowestoft 120 years ago, Harry Daley is the first known openly-gay Met PC. Working at @MPSHammersmith & @MPSMayfair + for a time lover to E M Forster, he was drawn into London's literary circles after meeting J. R. Ackerley at @LyricHammer in the 1920s. #LGBTQIA

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We love coming across a police call box in the wild. #HeritageNerds

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"I do solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I will well and truly serve the Queen in the office of constable" #HappyBirthdayYourMajesty #QueenElizabethII

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Alice Bertha Clayden (right) was #BornOnThisDay in Greenford 140 years ago. Daughter, sister (x3!) & wife to Met officers, she survived the 'Geddes Axe', led the Met's women 1922-30 as our first Woman Inspector with power of arrest and retired in 1941. #OnThisDay (CC @EalingLibs )

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We're the museum, reference library, research room, exhibition space *and* archive of the Metropolitan Police Service, covering both crime-solving and the lives of its officers and staff since 1829. #PoliceOrders #YourArchive #Archive30 #multitasking

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In spring 2022 we hope to re-open at Marlowe House, less than 200 yards from Sidcup train station, not just with a new reading room for our archives, photographs and books (our objects are staying put in Woolwich), but also a display space. #ExploreYourArchives #NewYear2022

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A #HappyChristmas to all our readers! Our output here will be a little lighter until the New Year but in the meantime here's the image from our 2021 virtual Christmas card ... #SeasonsGreetings #HappyXmas #Snowballs #snow #WhiteChristmas #patience #BlackAndWhitePhotography

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As we sign-off from #MuseXmas , an early happy Christmas to all our readers - may your days be merry and bright, and may all your TARDIS-es be white ... #DoctorWho #MuseumsTogether

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The Met's Sislen Faye Allen and Karpal Kaur Sandhu were the UK's first Black (1968) and Asian (1971) female officers. Could you help us strengthen our representation of BAME officers since then? #IWD #IWD2021 #InternationalWomensDay #ChooseToChallenge (CC @MPS_SikhAssoc )

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Classroom at the Met and City Police Orphanage, Twickenham, 1900. #ExploreYourArchive #education

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Spending Christmas in custody, in the 1860s, for being in possession of stolen holly. #LBLMAFestive

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In 1839 the 41-year-old River Police was merged into the Met, bringing with it its headquarters in Wapping, visited by Dickens and etched by Whistler (2 - @V_and_A not us, alas!). Its current 1872 building (3) still houses @MPSonthewater and its museum. #LBLMAbuildings

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We've closed up for Christmas and won't be around these parts until 9th January. Season's greetings to all our readers! #MetFloof #DogsofTwitter #Christmas #Xmas

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Early female Met officers didn't let a little thing like ankle-length skirts restrict their #sport choices... #thisgirlcan #stayhomekeepfit #museumfromhome #archive30 #exploreyourarchive #strongnotskinny #tugofwar #sport #womeninsport

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Well, look what we found hiding underneath a blanket as we pack up our storerooms for the big office move. #HeritageOpenDay

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Continuing our August theme of animals, we love this photograph from J Division. The dog is all ready for his photo opportunity whilst the horses are more interested in feeding time. #CLHCGAnimals

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Now many of our VHS tapes have been digitised, we're starting to look at ways we can bring them to a wider public. We have almost 200 passing out parade videos for 1992-2004 - could you be in one of them? #DigitalArchives #Archive30

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Before the pandemic vs now #MuseumTwitter #ExploreYourArchive #shiny

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In part thanks to one Sergeant George Dixon, the blue lamp is one of the most iconic objects in the Met's history. Thankfully our archives contain this handy chart for identifying them in captivity and the wild... #Object #Archive30 #ExploreYourArchive #eveningall #thinblueline

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You can hang any lantern from your tree, so long as it's blue... #FestiveLights #ArchiveAdventCalendar #festive #ExploreYourArchive

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A #view of New Scotland Yard when it was in its Broadway home 1967-2017. #Museum30

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Best known for establishing the Met's Fingerprint Bureau in 1901, Commissioner Edward Henry was #BornOnThisDay 170 years ago. He also introduced telephones at divisional stations, expanded the use of typewriters at the Yard and survived an assassination attempt. #OTD #OnThisDay

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The Met - helping lost Americans since 1942... #VEDay #VEDay75 #VEDay2020 #MetAtWar

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Does archive photography count for #OnlineArtExchange ? Asking for our feline friend Snooks at the Wellington Arch station... #cats #CatsOfTwitter #thursdaythoughts #felinegood #catincommand

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Stopping a runaway horse and an infuriated cow.... the Met in September 1884. #LBLMAanimals

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#ThrowbackThursday to that one person who has to step out of formation.

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#Making a Met officer has changed a bit in our 191 year existence. No more cutlass drill that's for sure... (image - 1867 at Wellington Barracks) #MayMuseumsThrive #MuseumsUnlocked #ArtAndWar

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Look what we’ve found in our stationery supplies. Old enough to become a part of our collection perhaps? #MuseumFinds

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A teaspoon has always been a vital #utensil for maintaining officer morale... #Museum30

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We're starting the year by researching the histories of police stations in a division - any guesses as to which one? 🧐🔍

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Sgt Frank Ellis Bunn's pocket book has recently been returned to us from loan. Seconded from N ( @MPSIslington ) Division for the 1913 Epsom Derby, he describes what happened when suffragette Emily Wilding Davison stepped out in front of the king's horse. #Museum30 #Document

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Dickens' own works were clearly popular among PCs, as seen in this 1885-1933 @MPSEastBarnet station library ledger from our collections, a rare insight into working- and lower-middle-class reading habits of the period. (1/2) #WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2021 #WBD2021

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Point duty change over

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So, off we go on another #Archive30 journey! Our archive of policing and crime-busting and its research room are both now based in Woolwich, waiting to awaken back into life post-lockdown. #ExploreYourArchive #YourArchive #MuseumFromHome #ArchiveFromHome

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The Met has policed the tidal Thames since 1839, but the #ocean s? Yes indeed! From 1860 to 1934 five Met units policed Woolwich Arsenal and dockyards such as @PHDockyard and @DockyardChatham , with their powers valid over a 15 mile radius by land and sea. #Museum30

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We are two #Museum s (one private, one public) as well as an archive and library, between us covering over 190 years of crime and policing in London and beyond from our research room in Sidcup, to which we will add an exhibition space in spring 2023. #Museum30

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Everyone in our team got to choose the images for this #collage on one of the walls in our new office. #Museum30

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#WhyMuseum30 ? Because we love to engage with other collections, highlight some of our own, see what amazing objects others have and add to our ever-growing list of museums to visit! #Museum30

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The 1967 women's uniform by royal #fashion designer Norman Hartnell & milliner Simone Mirman brought headlines like "Police Girls' New Look". Wearers, however, reported the hat's propensity to fall off at the start of foot chases... #Archive30 #ExploreYourArchive #fashionhistory

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Our photographic archive has quite the collection of officers sporting a fine moustache - here's one from W ( @MPSClaphamTown ) Division from c.1911 - 1934. #ArchiveFashion #Archive30

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Getting ready for our move to our new home in spring 2022. #WatchThisSpace #ExploreYourArchive #EYAWatchThisSpace

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#Feet on the beat has been core to the Met's purpose ever since the first officers were sworn in at the Foundling Hospital in September 1829 - here is one of our beat maps or #plans . Confusingly, a Section was a sub-division of a Sub-Division. #MuseumsUnlocked #ExploreYourArchive

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Our entry for #GiantObjectsOnMuseums is a bit #meta ... Though closed to the public, the #CrimeMuseumUncovered side of our collection has been housed at Old/New Scotland Yard (NSY) since 1874 - present NSY shown, the first NSY in left background. #TARDIS #DoctorWho

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Our new Sidcup site has been open for a year, hosting a #museum , library, archive and research room, not to mention @MPHVC , added to our remit last spring. Come visit us () !

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