The Houses of Parliament from Millbank 19th century

The Houses of Parliament from Millbank 19th centuryView of the Houses of Parliament from Millbank. OIl on canvas. At this time the Thames was still a working river and in the foreground barges and workers on the shore are detailed before the sun lit towers of Parliament. Twenty years later this stretch of Thames was transformed by the Victoria Embankment.

From the Microcosm of London published in 1809

Joan and Daisy

In the years leading up to and after the Second World War thousands of women left school at fourteen to work in the bustling factories of London's East End

From Reid's Views of Westminster and London VOL

Peter Fryer reveals how the ideology of racism was used as justification for acquiring and expanding the Empire

000 years of architectural achievement in the capital

Natives speaks directly to British denial and squeamishness when it comes to confronting issues of race and class that are at the heart of the legacy of Britain's racialised empire

day-trippers

though the docklands may be all but gone

The newly centralised Bank of England was the largest and most powerful financial undertaking in the City of London

and cycling with children

Accompanied by a chorus of voices of both iconic and unsung legends of the movement