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
Trades & Workers
The match girls’ strike of 1888
The actions of women in an east London match factory ignited a labour movement
Behind the scenes
Behind the scenes
Why are you touching that object without gloves?
All you need to know about glove-wearing while handling objects at London Museum
Science & Technology
Science & Technology
How the telegraph took off in Victorian London
This invention marked the beginning of instant messaging – and standardised time
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Photography
Photography
Miscellaneous Views: The view downstream from the Anchor & Hope Causeway at Charlton, in September, 1930. (cellulose acetate)
Linney, Albert Gravely
1930
