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Tobacconist
	How did tobacco get to London?	Tea trade
	How was the empire controlled?	Henry Sylvester Williams, African colonies Dadabhai Naoroji India under the East India Company British Empire and Commonwealth Museum British Empire internet gateway History of the British Empire
	Did people travel as far as imported goods?	John Archer, black mayor Archive and Museum of Black Heritage
Barber
	What pastimes did men have?
	What other services were available?	Working conditions
	When did men sing for their supper?	Music Hall
Public house
	What did people do in their free time?	Leisure time
	What sports were popular?	MCC Cricket Club Museum National Football Museum
	Did everyone like public houses?	Temperance movement
Glass showroom
	Where else could new products be seen?	How did they make the computer model of Crystal Palace in the gallery? Great Exhibition, overview
	Did people visit the Great Exhibition?	Great Exhibition and Crystal Palace
	What happened after the Exhibition?	Victoria and Albert Museum Natural History Museum Science Museum Imperial Institute, now the Commonwealth Institute Royal Albert Hall National Art Library 1851 project Crystal Palace
Barrel Organ
	Who was part of street life?	Rhubarb & spice seller Dickens’ London
	How did people listen to music at home?	Sheet music
	What other entertainment was available?	Biography: Sarah Bernhardt Biography: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Biography: Dan Leno
Tea and Coffee warehouse
	What did industrialists build?	Holborn Valley improvements Victorian architecture
	Where were docks and warehouses?	East London
	What sort of ships were docked?	Clippers
Engraver
	What else was made in workshops?	Royal Artillery Museum, Woolwich London, workshop of the world
	Where did other workers live?	Victorian homes for rich and poor Slums and slum life
	Who lived in model dwellings?	Charles Dickens’ crossingsweeper The Barnetts and Toynbee Hall Town planning and philanthropy
Watchmaker
	Why were London watches cheaper?	Famous watchmakers
	What were the finishing trades?	Victorian fashion Charles Worth, haute couture
	How did craftsmen become part of the Royal Society?	History of the Royal Society
Public urinal
	How was water supplied?	Biography: Dr John Snow
	What did the Metropolitan Board of Works do?	Crossness pumping station Fire fighting
	Why were sewers so important?	Housing and health
Baker's cart
	How did people travel within the city?	Public transport
	How did people travel between towns before trains?	The transport revolution Opposition to railways
	Why were motor cars more environmentally friendly?	National Motor Museum History of motoring and licensing
Grocer
	Where else could you buy food?	Shops and shopping
	How were goods and people transported?	Railways and population change
	How did politics affect the price of bread?	Biography: Richard Cobden Biography: Sir Robert Peel
Pharmacy
	Why were people ill?	Dr John Snow
	Did hospitals treat ill people?	Mary Seacole, nursing / Crimea Medicine before the NHS
	What happened when people died?
Milliner
	What was important to women?	New Woman Women’s Trade Union League
	Why were so many women domestic servants?	Housemaids Factory girls
	How did women get the vote?	Women’s Social and Political Union Sylvia Pankhurst Archive
Tailor
	Who made ready-to-wear clothes?	the Dressmaker Factory workers
	Did Trade Unions help ‘sweaters’?	Sweated labour Biography: Anne Besant
	What else did radicals campaign for?	William Cuffay, chartist Chartism Popular politics and revolutions
Fancy stationer
	What else was printed?
	Could everybody read?	Illustrated newspapers and journals Periodicals
	How were novelty cards sent?	Biography: Sir Rowland Hill and the Penny Black
Pawnbroker
	What happened to poor people?	Elizabeth Fry at Newgate Workhouses
	Why was the East End different?	Tower Hamlets history online Spitalfields silk industry 19 Princelet St, Spitalfields
	What impact did slavery have?	Biography: Olauhdah Equiano Biography: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano Anti-slavery campaign in Britain Effects of the 1807 & 1833 Abolition Acts
Bank clerks' office
	Why were London’s banks special?	Rothschild Archive
	Was military power connected to wealth?	Biography: Duke of Wellington Wellington’s dispatches 1808-1815 Wellington papers database
	How did businesses communicate?	Telecommunications Morse telegraphy
Bank manager's office
	Where did bankers live?
	How did people from the suburbs get to work?	Public transport in London
	Why did the city expand?	Urban expansion Charles Booth: mapping living standards Population growth
Toyshop
	What was life like for children?	Museum of Childhood
	Were all schools the same?	Ragged School Museum
	Did all children go to school?	Costermonger Lord Shaftesbury and the shoeblack Union Biography: Lord Shaftesbury
Lamp post
	How was the Thames tunnel built?	Biography: Marc Isambard Brunel Biography: Isambard Kingdom Brunel The Brunel Archive
	Who developed the use of electric power?	Biography: Michael Faraday
	Who developed new machinery?	The Bryan Donkin Company

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