20th century London (1900 – 1999)

These city kids created their own outdoor playgrounds with scooters, skipping ropes and songs

And the history of London’s traffic stoppers

A wedding dress that never walked down the aisle

The punk pioneers who defined a generation

How do you represent something as multifaceted, vibrant and anarchic as the punk scene in a museum?

An East End victory over fascism

Their boutique at 430 King’s Road brought creativity – and controversy – to 1970s fashion

‘Not much good came out of the London Blitz, but Mithras did’

Theories, investigations and the dress colour conundrum

The Chinese communities who lived in this pocket of the East End

A pioneering LGBTQ+ ultradisco and a home of UK queer rave subculture

The world-famous BBC made its first radio broadcast from London over 100 years ago

Delve into the wardrobes of the fashionable woman in the 1920s

Who wore this Beefeater dress by designer Colin Wild?

Featuring headless puppets, the ever-stylish Sindy and a 300-year-old doll with human hair

A grumpy printer dumped his masterpiece into the Thames to spite his partner. A hundred years on, mudlarks fished it back up

Love down the drain? Not for this couple!

One of the defining industrial disputes of the 1970s happened in a north-west London suburb