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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Class & Economics
Class & Economics
How London’s alternative currencies made change
In the past and present, Londoners have experimented with different forms of money
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
The lost Doves Type: A Thames mystery solved
A grumpy printer dumped his masterpiece into the Thames to spite his partner. A hundred years on, mudlarks fished it back up
Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
Women’s toilets & the fight for the right to work
What can a toilet roll tell us about the history of women’s access to work and leisure?
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Photography
Photography
Tilbury Docks: A view from the Tilbury Hotel, showing a steamer passing on the river at Whitsun, 1929 (cellulose acetate)
Linney, Albert Gravely
1929
