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
Science & Technology
Science & Technology
How the telegraph took off in Victorian London
This invention marked the beginning of instant messaging – and standardised time
From our experts
From our experts
In search of East End food on Roman Road
Where pie and mash meets biryani and dal puri
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