India, Oct. 24 -- A child's suitcase. A comforter. A teddy bear that will soon be 90 years old.

At Childhood in War, an exhibition underway at the Imperial War Museums (IWM), London, everyday objects tell stories from across more than a century, and over 20 regions, from World War 1 (1914-18), the Falklands and Afghanistan to Iraq, the former Yugoslavia, present-day Ukraine and, minimally, Israel and Gaza.

With more than 450 million children, one in six globally, living in areas affected by conflict, according to Unicef (the United Nations Children's Fund), the exhibition aims to highlight how such conflict is seen and experienced, by those who don't yet understand the forces at play.

The show explores a range of young voices, through ...