Blogs-And-Stories

Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers

London’s street markets by László Moholy-Nagy

The influential Hungarian artist turns his attention to 1930s street life

Music & Subculture
Music & Subculture

Blitz: A revolutionary 1980s club night

How one small group of revellers shaped the style and sound of a decade

Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style

Bikers unite: Rockers & rebels at the Ace Cafe, 1963

A gathering of leather-jacket-wearing adrenaline junkies

Religion & Beliefs
Religion & Beliefs

The history of London’s mosques

Fascinating buildings that tell the stories of the capital’s Muslim communities

Transport
Transport

When London moved by tram

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

London Places
London Places

Woolwich Ferry

Getting Londoners across the Thames since the 1300s

Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers

Hop-picking: Londoners’ working holiday

Going ‘hopping’ in Kent was once a rare summertime escape from city life

Art & Design
Art & Design

A walk through 1920s London

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

Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers

Locket portraits of London’s container shipping crews

Artist Hilary Powell illuminates the invisible lives of the international shipping industry

Architecture & Home
Architecture & Home

Photographing hidden worlds on the banks of the Thames

Portraits of the barren underbelly of London’s bridges, wharfs and piers

Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters

Flooded London

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

Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers

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

Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure

Snapshots of noughties London

Remember post-millennium London through the eyes of Paul Baldesare

Immigration & Identity
Immigration & Identity

A Little Italy in London

Clerkenwell and Soho were once the centres of London’s Italian community

Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure

Backstage at the London Palladium, 1956

A peek behind the curtain of the world-famous West End theatre

War & Weapons
War & Weapons

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

Transport
Transport

The last galleried coaching inns left in London

These Victorian photos captured the decline of historic rest stops for travellers and their horses

Class & Economics
Class & Economics

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