While we are all cooped up at home, I am planning to resume this blog. I can’t promise a huge amount of new content, but I plan to post a few new articles and update some old ones. So watch this space.
For the time being, here is a reminder that this is not the first time that London’s museums have closed to the public:

“The British Museum : Removing sandbags in the Assyrian Saloon” by Sir Henry Rushby, 1918 ( (c) IWM)
Read more in a 2012 blog post here.