Trades & Workers

London Museum staff choose their favourite object with a female focus from our collection

A jaw-dropping stash of lost Tudor and Stuart jewels

London’s largest ever Bronze Age hoard, bundled up and buried 3,000 years ago

All you need to know about glove-wearing while handling objects at London Museum

Art for memories: Ahead of their move to Dagenham, the fishmongers of Billingsgate Market have many stories to tell

A 17th-century Jewish broker in London brings together objects from the collections of two museums in the most fascinating way

15 objects from our collections, each showing that London is, and has always been, open to the wider world

Here’s how we’re missing a crucial piece of the life in London’s docklands

An emerald watch, a salamander brooch and a cornelian squirrel

Historical bargain hunt

When workers from two key local industries – tailoring and the docks – fought for better pay and working conditions

For 100 years Londoners relied on this Shoreditch institution

Prime cuts from 800 years of trading

73 people died when an east London factory making TNT caught fire and exploded

From clandestine wine tastings to a female police force, what went on at London’s Docklands

Searching for history on the shores of the Thames

Circus animals? Couture workshops? Shopping used to look a bit different

Steering the River Thames through changing tides and turbulent times