Workers on the Silent Highway c. 1878

Workers on the Silent Highway c. 1878Two men aboard a Thames sailing barge in mid river. The image is taken from a series of 37 photographs published in the book, 'Street Life in London' (1877), with text written by John Thomson and the journalist Adolphe Smith. After taking photographs in the Far East, Thomson opened a portrait studio in London in 1875. Two years later he collaborated with the journalist, Adolphe Smith, to produce 'Street Life in London'. The book was conceived as a

Grayson Perry

From Roman coins and medieval trinkets to Georgian clay pipes and Victorian love tokens

Westminster to the Tower

The fruit trade was increasing at this time

Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews

starting at Thames Head near Cirencester in Gloucestershire

Pauls Cathedral at night

my elbows squared

77cm x 43cm

224 mobile cranes and 6 floating cranes

this book delves into the cultural history of queerness in the capital

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