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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Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
The Grunwick strike, 1976–1978
One of the defining industrial disputes of the 1970s happened in a north-west London suburb
Immigration & Identity
Immigration & Identity
Limehouse: London’s first Chinatown
The Chinese communities who lived in this pocket of the East End
Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style
Anna Maria Garthwaite: Spitalfields silk designer
Her naturalistic floral designs were the height of silk fashion in the mid-1700s
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Photography
Photography
Millwall Docks: The barque 'Lingard' is turned in the river by a tug after leaving the dry dock. (photograph)
Linney, Albert Gravely
1931
