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Where London's history clicks into place

Lifelong Learning Online

You don't have to be at school or college to be interested in learning. The Museum is for people of all ages who want to find out more.

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Porter's token used at Billingsgate fish market

Postcodes Project

Engraving, West India Quay, detail

Trade and industrialisation 1750–1900

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General

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For an overview of life in London now and throughout history

500,000BC to 43AD

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What were people doing here 450,000 years before Romans founded Londinium?

43 to 410AD

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The town of Londinium was founded by settling Romans and became a thriving city

1946 to present

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The century that saw the death of Queen Victoria and the birth of the Internet

1914 to 1945

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After the French Revolution everything changed, from politics to fashion, as London became the Imperial capital

1837 to 1913

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London flourished, with high culture - and an underworld of poverty and crime

1558 to 1837

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Under the rule of the Tudors and Stuarts London was an exciting place full of risk and opportunity

410 to 1558

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From the rubble of the Roman Empire, a new London gradually emerged

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