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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Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
Hop-picking: Londoners’ working holiday
Going ‘hopping’ in Kent was once a rare summertime escape from city life
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Great Smog of 1952
12,000 people died when a toxic polluted fog descended on London
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Stone Age skull rescued from the River Thames
Found after 5,000 years in the mud
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Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
A true Pourtraict with a Brief Description of that deplorable Fire of London Befallen the 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 Sept. 1666 (engraving)
Doornick, Marcus Willemsz
1666-1670
