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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The 1889 London dockers’ & tailors’ strikes
When workers from two key local industries – tailoring and the docks – fought for better pay and working conditions
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
Locket portraits of London’s container shipping crews
Artist Hilary Powell illuminates the invisible lives of the international shipping industry
Immigration & Identity
Immigration & Identity
Limehouse: London’s first Chinatown
The Chinese communities who lived in this pocket of the East End
