Food & Diet
Dig into objects, stories and blogs that shine a light on food and diet through London’s history.
Blogs-And-Stories
                
            Morley’s: South London’s chicken shop
The pride of south London since 1985, courtesy of bossman
                
            London’s pie & mash shops
In the 1990s, Chris Clunn photographed a unique yet fading London food tradition
                
            London’s historic pubs
Highwaymen hangouts, Thameside landmarks – and a local co-owned by Ian McKellen
                
            You scream, we scream: A London history of ice cream
Churning out the facts about the city’s favourite frozen treat
                
            A thousand years of Billingsgate Market
The prize catch of London’s fish trade, home to a unique culture and generations of working history
                
            
                
            Borough Market: London's oldest food-trading hub
Borough Market has drawn food enthusiasts to its stalls for around a thousand years
                
            Roman Road Market: Shopping for East London history
Where else could you find pie and mash, biriani, Suffragette history and a grime music landmark?
                
            Spitalfields Market: 400 years of feeding London
A former fruit and veg trading hub in the heart of the East End