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Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers

London’s street markets by László Moholy-Nagy

The influential Hungarian artist turns his attention to 1930s street life

Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers

Hop-picking: Londoners’ working holiday

Going ‘hopping’ in Kent was once a rare summertime escape from city life

Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers

Locket portraits of London’s container shipping crews

Artist Hilary Powell illuminates the invisible lives of the international shipping industry

Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers

The jobs that made London’s docks run

London’s port relied on dock workers doing an array of back-breaking and highly skilled jobs

Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers

Inside the Cutler Street Warehouses

Once a centre of London’s trade and imperial ambitions

Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers

Portraits of City of London workers, 1974

John Eastcott looked beyond the bankers to document the many trades of the Square Mile

Food & Diet
Food & Diet

You scream, we scream: A London history of ice cream

Churning out the facts about the city’s favourite frozen treat