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The national cultural institutes and diaspora cultural centres that keep a public door in London, with the libraries, galleries, film programmes and language classes they run, and the international festivals that return to the same ground each year. Much of what they put on is free.
Where those countries' people lived, in the past tense: The World in London
Poland's historical institute in London, founded in 1945 to keep its own records out of the new government's hands.
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This is what a cultural institute looks like when the state behind it has gone. Poland's government spent the war in London, and at the end of it the archive it had carried from Warsaw by way of Paris could not go home, so a private institute was founded here to hold it, and held it for four decades.
The collection is the papers of the government in exile and the Polish armed forces in the west, and the museum around it keeps General Sikorski's own uniforms and decorations, unit standards, and the chronicle of 303 Squadron. There is a reading room for researchers alongside it.
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