On the first day, we walked along the Thames to study several war memorials that are placed close to the river. Some of these memorials, like the National Submariners’ Memorial, are dedicated to soldiers serving in the World Wars, while others serve as reminders to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On the second and third days, we again studied the transatlantic commemoration of the World Wars with visits to the First World War Gallery in the Imperial War Museum, and to the famous Churchill War Rooms– the bunker Churchill used during the Second World War to design decisive campaigns for the Allied forces. Later we also toured the Benjamin Franklin House– the only European residence of this famous American Founding Father that still exists today. Here, we discussed Franklin’s political efforts at mediating the growing tensions between the British Crown and the American colonies, just months before the American Declaration of Independence, and before Franklin left London for the newly founded United States. The field trip continued with a visit to the “Treasures of the British Library,” where we studied some of the Library’s most fascinating and famous pieces, such as the Magna Charta and letters by Queen Victoria. The last museum we visited together was the Museum of London: Docklands, home to an excellent exhibition on the development of this particular part of the city that also includes an in-depth look at the docklands during World War II.