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
West India Docks
These were once the world’s largest docks, built to handle goods from Caribbean slave plantations
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
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
