All news on the topic: Victoria and Albert Museum

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Weirdest items missing from UK museums - from fake moustache to cannonball
A document shows all the 1,700 items missing from British museums' collections, including a fake moustache missing from the V&A and prehistoric bones from the Natural History Museum
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A £20 market-bought brooch turns out to be rare Victorian treasure worth £15,000
Flora Steel purchased the silver brooch 35 years ago not realising it was a 'historically significant' piece of jewellery dating back to the 19th Century - and was worth big money
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Death of Mary Quant means 'bye to fashion rebel who sparked cultural revolution
Sniffing a youthful urgency in the cannabis-swirled air of a nearly swinging London, Mary popularised rule-breaking, ready-to-wear fashions that would help it on its way