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
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
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
Peggy Jones: Mudlarking for survival
This mudlark earned her living, and some infamy, scavenging coal along the filthy River Thames
Collections
Collections
London is open & always has been
15 objects from our collections, each showing that London is, and has always been, open to the wider world