Trades & Workers
Sharpen your understanding of London’s factories, warehouses, docks, markets and shops with our related objects, stories and blogs.
Top-Results
Top-Results
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
Collections
Collections
The 1889 London dockers’ & tailors’ strikes
When workers from two key local industries – tailoring and the docks – fought for better pay and working conditions
Art & Design
Art & Design
The Thames Set by James McNeill Whistler
As the polluted river crawled by, Whistler scratched out images of London’s watery margins
