London stories
Explore the stories of the world's greatest city and uncover the hidden treasures of our collections.
Food & Diet

Politics & Society

Politics & Society
How Charles Booth mapped London poverty
And showed the complexity of social class in the late 19th century
Death & Disasters

Death & Disasters
Tower Hamlets Cemetery
Known locally as Bow Cemetery and the last of London’s Magnificent Seven cemeteries to be built
Immigration & Identity

Immigration & Identity
Limehouse: London’s first Chinatown
The Chinese communities who lived in this pocket of the East End
Health & Disease

Health & Disease
Joseph Merrick: 'The Elephant Man'
The life of a Victorian Whitechapel resident made famous because of his physical disabilities
Immigration & Identity

Immigration & Identity
The Jewish East End
How Spitalfields and Whitechapel offered new lives to thousands fleeing persecution
Crime & Legislation

Crime & Legislation
The Kray Twins: Notorious east London gangsters
Dangerous and famous in the Swinging Sixties
Crime & Legislation

Crime & Legislation
Jack the Ripper
How the murders of five women birthed an infamous East End crime story