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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Disciplining the ‘World’s Greatest Port’
The PLA’s Discipline Books logged transgressions and sanctions within London’s docks
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
Silvertown 1917: London’s largest explosion
73 people died when an east London factory making TNT caught fire and exploded
Immigration & Identity
Immigration & Identity
How Asian ayahs and amahs arrived in London
These nannies were some of the first Asian women to visit London in the 18th century
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River Lee Navigation: The approach to Stansted Bridge, on Whit Monday, 1931. (cellulose acetate)
Linney, Albert Gravely
1931
