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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Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
West India Docks
These were once the world’s largest docks, built to handle goods from Caribbean slave plantations
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From our experts
From fish market to red carpet: London's changing docks
London’s Docklands have gone through huge change in the last 70 years
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From our experts
Women in Indian indentured labour
A third of indentured labourers were women. Here’s a peek into their story
