Paintings, Prints & Drawings
The art collection consists of around 25,000 paintings, prints and drawings showcasing a visual encyclopaedia of London
Blogs-And-Stories
Blitz Underground: How war artists saw tube shelters
Bill Brandt and Henry Moore’s war art during the Blitz offer a poignant view of human resilience amid chaos
Marvellous moustaches & brilliant beards from the London Collection
Need ideas for your Movember look?
Holiday broadsides: When tip requests were sheer poetry
Meet the London workers who turned holiday tips requests into an artform
Coronations through the ages
London has been host to royal coronations strange and magnificent
The calls of London’s historic street traders
In a busy city, your voice can make a sale
Who were the Young British Artists?
How a group of rebellious, mostly London-based artists changed the 1990s art world
Inner rooms, inner minds: Documenting London's mental health crisis
The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns evidently had an impact on people’s mental and emotional wellbeing
Paddington Station: For bears & westward travel
A glorious ceiling and a visitor from Peru
Charles Dickens’ ‘Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi’
The Victorian author charts the turbulent life of a beloved London clown
A caricaturist takes on the Great Exhibition, 1851
George Cruikshank’s satirical sketches shine a light on the craze caused by this London event
Who was publicly executed in London?
Thirteen tales of the cooks, rebels, bankers and king who died in front of a watching crowd
The Huguenots in London
These French refugees worked silk in Spitalfields and silver in Soho, weaving a lasting legacy
How Cleopatra’s Needle came to London
An ancient Egyptian obelisk – on the banks of the River Thames
London’s folk customs & traditions
The capital’s cultural calendar is a rainbow of obscure customs, traditions, rituals and ceremonies
The Monument to the Great Fire of London
A permanent, towering reminder of the 1666 disaster
