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88 Crowley Road: Rehearsed Reading
Hackney Museum
Multi Faith Act of Remembrance
Firepower, The Royal Artillery Museum
Caribbean Anansi stories
Museum of London Docklands
The House of Words
Dr Johnson's House
Ablade Glover 75 Year Anniversary at October Gallery: Celebrate one of Ghana's foremost painters
October Gallery
Sphinxes in the Park
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
The North-West Passage: An Arctic Obsession
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London


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London is...

home to people of every race, faith and sexual orientation.

This site explores the histories that relate to all the people of London as they are told in museums, galleries, archives and community heritage organisations.

See LGBT section here, find out more about this site, or contact us with your comments.

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Gérard Quenum's mystical African dolls pay eerie visit to October Gallery.

How many baby dolls can you fit into a giant toy Volkswagen? The answer is 11.

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Ed Gray at the GX gallery

A former south London schoolteacher travels the globe depicting crowds from dozens of cities.

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Public Space and the Black and Asian presence in the London Landscape

On visiting the centre of London, John Siblon often asks himself: ‘Where are the monuments and statues to non-white people like me’? Here he attempts to answer his own question.

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Assembling The Jigsaw Puzzle Of History At The Museum Of Croydon

Black and white, straight and gay, ancient and modern: how do stories from the history of Croydon fit together? Learn about Croydon's collections with this new website.

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Kamal Chunchie and the Founding of the Coloured Men's Institute Video and Exhibition

Eastside present a documentary film and exhibition about Kamal Chunchie for Story of London.


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