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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Trades & Workers
West India Docks
These were once the world’s largest docks, built to handle goods from Caribbean slave plantations
Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
The Grunwick strike, 1976–1978
One of the defining industrial disputes of the 1970s happened in a north-west London suburb
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
What was the Winter of Discontent, 1978–1979?
A widespread strike movement during one of the coldest winters of the century
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Photography
Photography
Miscellaneous Views: New 'Dutch Houses' on the Zeeland Estate, Canvey Island, on Good Friday, 1935. (cellulose acetate)
Linney, Albert Gravely
1935
