Half a million years for you to discover
The Museum of London and the Museum in Docklands celebrate half a million years of human history. The features, fact packs, links and resources for every period and both museums are now collected together in the Learning website. The structure has been changed slightly to include all the new resources and we hope you will find it useful.
For an overview of life in London now and throughout history, and our new Picture Bank
Prehistory: What were people doing here 450,000 years before Romans founded Londinium?
The town of Londinium was founded by settling Romans and became a thriving city
Anglo-Saxon, Viking, medieval & Tudor: From the rubble of the Roman Empire, a new London gradually emerged
Stuarts, Civil War, Restoration & Georgian: London was an exciting place full of risk and opportunity
Victorian & Edwardian: London flourished, with high culture - and an underworld of poverty and crime
First and Second World War & the inter-war years
Postwar to the present