 Actually, my name is James Taylor. I am Assistant Director for Narrative and Content and essentially, I oversee all of the historical content at Imperial War museum's Imperial War Museum is a national institution and it was set up in 1917. So during the First World War and originally at was set up specifically as a First World War Museum Ond ydych chi'n gwybod, Britain wedi cael ei ddweud yn y llwyddoedd, ac mae'r ddweud yn ddweud ar y rymu. Felly yn y ddechrau. Mae'n dweud 5 o'r branc oedd. Rwy'n gyflawni'r Llywodraeth Cymru, yn y dda chi'n gwybod. Rwy'n gyflawni'r Llywodraeth Cymru, ond mae'r gyflawni'r Llywodraeth Cymru yn y Llywodraeth Cymru. HMS Belfast, the Second World Warship, which is on the River Thames, Imperial War Museum North in Manchester and also IWM Duxford, which is a former RAF airfield. Yes, I mean we're a museum, so I mean the key thing is that we have the actual historical evidence from which we can tell stories around. I think one of the important things to say is that of course museums are not monoliths, we have to change over time with our audiences. So if for example I think of the very first visitors to the Imperial War Museum, they were all in some sense veterans of the First World War. So they might have been on the home front, they might have fought in France and Flanders, they might have fought at Gallipoli. I mean even children then were to some degree veterans. And now of course 100 years after the First World War there is no living memory of that conflict. And so it's up to us as the curatorial teams to give meaning to it where we did that wouldn't have been the case say 100 years ago. Yeah, I mean I think this is hugely important. I mean we do have a shared history. You know particularly if I take the two what we think of as the two great wars of national self-defence, the First World War and the Second World War. We show what can happen when Europe is split apart and so I think it's really important that those are studied. So yes, the European story, we don't just tell a very, you know, we obviously have a British and Commonwealth focus, but also those stories cannot exist on their own without telling a wider European story. It's been a subject of discussion for as long as I can remember here. I think the challenge of that name is that most museums act as advocates for their subjects. So a science museum is a champion for science. An art gallery shows the wonders of art. I think a lot of people think that that must mean we like war because we're an imperial war museum. So they're two not very fashionable words, but that is not what we do at all. What our job is to gather the memories and possessions of people who fought in those wars and then to explain what their meaning is. That is what our job is. I suppose the link between past and present has always been that this museum has focused on individual stories of people caught up in war. So I think that's the key thing. We were set up to make sure we never forget what it is to live in a time of conflict. And one of the things that has always interested our visitors is people stories. So that is our link from past to present. And I think what we are now having to do because those voices are disappearing, certainly they've gone from the First World War, they're going from the Second World War, is to make sure that we do give voice to those people still. And that's what our responsibility is as curators. I think it's hugely important. I mean one of the important aspects of our job is to discuss, to debate. And I think that we can't just confine that to a British forum. It has to go beyond that. And indeed this is something that we already do. We talk with our colleagues not just in Europe, but also globally. And I think that's crucial to get those different perspectives. Yeah, I mean we do. I mean that exhibition was set up in 2000. And even now we're having to plan new Holocaust galleries because historical knowledge has moved on since 2000. Quite a great deal. So we are always having to look about how we reach our audiences and how our content has real integrity. So this is why we are constantly in a state of movement. I mean I think engaging in discussion is what's absolutely critical. It's difficult to think of any concrete things that work, but that's for further discussion I think. I mean we certainly endeavour to do that. That's not always possible within an exhibition. An exhibition only allows you a very limited amount of space. We always start off with, we're confined in what we can do. But certainly we do try to do that. I can give you an example. When we were looking at Britain's story in the First World War, the traditional British story of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, for example, talks only about the British losses, which were indeed terrible during the battle. But what we've endeavour to do in our First World War galleries, which opened only three years ago, is to show that they had a terrible effect on the German army as well. And indeed made Germany actually change its strategic course during the war.