Trades & Workers
Sharpen your understanding of London’s factories, warehouses, docks, markets and shops with our related objects, stories and blogs.
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Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style
Anna Maria Garthwaite: Spitalfields silk designer
Her naturalistic floral designs were the height of silk fashion in the mid-1700s
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
What is the Port of London Authority?
Steering the River Thames through changing tides and turbulent times
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
Street life & work in 1877
John Thomson’s fascinating photographs reveal the lives of workers in 19th-century London