As part of Transport for London’s Year of the Bus celebrations in 2014 London Transport Museum is holding a symposium called The Social History and Cultural Significance of the London Bus on Saturday 18th October. Our speakers will look at the iconic nature of London’s red double-decker buses, their social history, economic impact and cultural significance.
Further, to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, and in support of our current exhibition Goodbye Piccadilly, we are holding another symposium, 1914-1918 From Home Front to Western Front on Saturday 15th November. This will investigate the central themes of the exhibition; wartime and peacetime conditions in London, women in London transport and the role of the B-type bus on the Western Front, in more detail.