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
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
The calls of London’s historic street traders
In a busy city, your voice can make a sale
Collections
Collections
British-Bangladeshis & the East End rag trade: A personal story
How Asma Begum’s parents travelled from Bangladesh in the 1960s to build a life in London’s East End
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
West India Docks
These were once the world’s largest docks, built to handle goods from Caribbean slave plantations
