Thought I would give a shout-out to these people, who I am a member of:

https://www.bsfa.co.uk/

One of the main things they are writing groups, having provided some of the alpha readers for Generation Ship and the upcoming Lava Moon. Their Discord is pretty useful too.

Anyway, I visited the V&A Storehouse on Monday, where you can order objects in advance for examination. Perhaps I might do that for a future book.

As you can see from the picture below, there was rather a long queue to get in: