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.
Top-Results
Top-Results
Transport
Transport
St Barbara: Guardian of the Crossrail tunnel
The medieval saint who watched over the Elizabeth Line
From our experts
From our experts
Why fashion manufacturing moved away from London
From the 1940s onwards, here’s why many London-based fashion makers struggled to retain their base in the capital
Collections
Collections
London is open & always has been
15 objects from our collections, each showing that London is, and has always been, open to the wider world