20th century London (1900 – 1999)

Going ‘hopping’ in Kent was once a rare summertime escape from city life

The first woman in Britain to qualify as a doctor

The pride of south London since 1985, courtesy of bossman

George Davison Reid’s years-long photography project shows us London between two world wars

The Wembley-born star brings London and his life story into his work

When the bombs began to fall

Between 1901 and 1910, London began to find its spark

London’s port relied on dock workers doing an array of back-breaking and highly skilled jobs

A peek behind the curtain of the world-famous West End theatre

The dramatic images captured by two police officers show the effects of Nazi air raids on the City

Photographing in the 1900s, this Christian missionary hoped to draw attention to his local community

Photographs of candyfloss and carousels in post-war London

Tom Hunter’s detailed model of his Hackney neighbourhood helped save it from demolition

In the 1990s, Chris Clunn photographed a unique yet fading London food tradition

Londoners looked anxiously at the sky as zeppelins and planes brought 20th-century warfare to their doorstep

John Eastcott looked beyond the bankers to document the many trades of the Square Mile

The official sport of women factory workers in wartime

The designer who helped make bespoke suits cool again