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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London’s street markets by László Moholy-Nagy
The influential Hungarian artist turns his attention to 1930s street life

Blitz: A revolutionary 1980s club night
How one small group of revellers shaped the style and sound of a decade

Bikers unite: Rockers & rebels at the Ace Cafe, 1963
A gathering of leather-jacket-wearing adrenaline junkies

The history of London’s mosques
Fascinating buildings that tell the stories of the capital’s Muslim communities

When London moved by tram
Powered by horses, then electricity, London’s tram network was once the largest in the world

Hop-picking: Londoners’ working holiday
Going ‘hopping’ in Kent was once a rare summertime escape from city life

A walk through 1920s London
George Davison Reid’s years-long photography project shows us London between two world wars

Locket portraits of London’s container shipping crews
Artist Hilary Powell illuminates the invisible lives of the international shipping industry

Photographing hidden worlds on the banks of the Thames
Portraits of the barren underbelly of London’s bridges, wharfs and piers

Flooded London
Before the Thames Barrier, flooding in London was regularly destructive and often deadly

The jobs that made London’s docks run
London’s port relied on dock workers doing an array of back-breaking and highly skilled jobs

Snapshots of noughties London
Remember post-millennium London through the eyes of Paul Baldesare

A Little Italy in London
Clerkenwell and Soho were once the centres of London’s Italian community

Backstage at the London Palladium, 1956
A peek behind the curtain of the world-famous West End theatre

Photos of bomb-shattered London in the Blitz
The dramatic images captured by two police officers show the effects of Nazi air raids on the City

The last galleried coaching inns left in London
These Victorian photos captured the decline of historic rest stops for travellers and their horses

John Galt's photos of the East End and its poverty
Photographing in the 1900s, this Christian missionary hoped to draw attention to his local community