London stories
Explore the stories of the world's greatest city and uncover the hidden treasures of our collections.
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Roman Road Market: Shopping for East London history
Where else could you find pie and mash, biriani, Suffragette history and a grime music landmark?
St James’s Park: Royal playground & wildlife haven
The park surrounded by palaces – and home to a colony of pelicans
Finding beauty in 1930s working-class London
Humphrey Spender’s photos were born from an appreciation of ordinary life
Office life in the 1980s
Anna Fox’s photographs pick out the mundane and the sinister in the aspirational 1980s workplace
Colourful prints of lost East End shops
Look again at the greengrocers, delis and butchers that have disappeared from our streets
Greenwich Park: Where time begins
The birthplace of Tudor monarchs and Greenwich Mean Time
Bushy Park: London's second-largest royal park
One of London's most remarkable historical landscapes can be found in the south-west suburbs
Portraits of Londoners at home in the 1970s
An intimate look at life behind closed doors
William Hogarth painted London behaving badly
The artist’s wildly popular pictures from the 1700s show a rowdy version of urban life
Lost London buildings by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd
London’s buildings were this artist’s speciality in the 1800s, letting us see landmarks lost to time
Labrum tells West African stories through fashion
A modern menswear brand celebrating migration and movement
A thousand years of Billingsgate Market
The prize catch of London’s fish trade, home to a unique culture and generations of working history
A timeline of IRA attacks in London
From the 1970s to the 1990s, Londoners faced the repeated threat of Irish republican bombings
Grace Wales Bonner: Tailoring the future of fashion
Her London-based label brings an approach to design that is brainy, beautiful and rooted in Blackness
