Working History
This collection reflects the historic trade and industry of the city through tools and workshop treasures, from clocks to wheelwrights to ballet shoe-making.
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Top-Results
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
West India Docks
These were once the world’s largest docks, built to handle goods from Caribbean slave plantations
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
Chimney sweeps’ soot-stained past
Brush up on the history of a trade that once sent children climbing into danger
From our experts
From our experts
Women in Indian indentured labour
A third of indentured labourers were women. Here’s a peek into their story