PACKING UP THE NATION
By CAROLINE SHENTON

Based on the book by Caroline Shenton, National Treasures, the talk will tell the extraordinary and sometimes hilarious stories behind the saving of London’s art and museum collections in World War Two, which is the subject of today’s lecture .Dr Caroline Shenton is an archivist and historian. She was formerly Director of the Parliamentary Archives in London, and before that was a senior archivist at the National Archives.