Nature & Environment
Learn how the growth of one of the world’s great cities has affected its environment – with the help of our related objects, stories and blogs.
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Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure
Frost fairs: Festivities on a frozen River Thames
Trading, feasting and entertainment on ice
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Great Stink of 1858
A smell so incredibly awful it demanded a modern sewer solution
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
Flooded London
Before the Thames Barrier, flooding in London was regularly destructive and often deadly
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Printed Ephemera
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
The Copperplate Map; Nimrod supervising the construction of the Tower of Babel (map)
Valckenborgh, Martin Van
1559; 16th century
Decorative arts
