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From fish market to red carpet: London's changing docks

London’s Docklands have gone through huge change in the last 70 years

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How the Great Fire of London created insurance

The Great Fire of London in 1666 had a surprising outcome: the creation of modern property insurance

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London is open and always has been

15 objects from our collections, each showing that London is, and has always been, open to the wider world

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Beatrice de Cardi: Archaeologist, adventurer & fashion aficionado

Archaeologist extraordinaire who fashioned a legacy from ancient pots to war zones

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‘A leather jerkin well examined’: Tudor fashion's unsung hero

A rugged, sleeveless jacket that shaped 16th-century style

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A fashion for women's suffrage, via Christina Broom's lens

What do the clothes worn by Christina Broom's protagonists say about them and the period?

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Bomber jackets: From military gear to fashion icon

A personal take on the evolution of the bomber jacket and its allure for women

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A rubbish cake: A waste-not love story

Love down the drain? Not for this couple!

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London Stone in seven strange myths

We examine the myths surrounding London Stone and the colourful cast of characters who created them

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From our experts

Rediscover London's lost art of flower-making

Explore the almost-lost but enchanting Victorian craft of flower-making, once a bustling industry in London