Photography
Immerse yourself in London’s living history through our photographic archive, capturing the city's evolving landscape, diverse communities and social fabric.
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Building a Victorian underground railway
Henry Flather’s photos of the Metropolitan District Railway show a transport revolution in action
Street life & work in 1877
John Thomson’s fascinating photographs reveal the lives of workers in 19th-century London
Atmospheric photographs of Hampstead Heath
Observing the living landscape of London’s urban wilderness
Photographing London after dark
When the sun set, Alan Delaney took out his camera, capturing a ghostly city marked by shadow
Inside St Paul’s Cathedral
Tiptoe through these tranquil photographs from the early 1900s
Portraits of London’s close-knit queer club scenes
Liz Johnson Artur captured community, individuality and joy on and around the dance floor
Alvin Langdon Coburn’s ethereal photographs of London
A foggy, shadowy view of the capital in 1909
The toilet photos that saved gay men on trial
Fighting the prosecution of gay encounters in the 1980s and 1990s
Victorian photographs of Barnet & Enfield
Roaming rural north London in the late 1800s
Inside Homerton Hospital, 1988
A new hospital for Hackney – its patients and staff, needles and blood
How wartime bombsites became adventure playgrounds
Reclaiming the wreckage for play and imagination
London buses: Red, iconic, double-decked
You wait for ages, then all you need to know about London buses comes along at once
Forgotten faces from post-war London
Fred Wilfred’s photos of London from 1957 to 1962 have remained largely unseen
Photographing an east London rent strike, 1939
Cyril Arapoff captures life in a dangerously dilapidated apartment block
Speakers’ Corner: A home of free speech
Hyde Park’s historic spot for public speaking and debate
Post-war photographs of the working River Thames
Sandra Flett’s snapshot of trade and industry on London’s liquid highway
