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We’re building a new museum for London. In the meantime, visit us at Docklands 💙
Sep 1, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
New discovery alert ⚠️🔥

New research identifies the first witness of the Great Fire of London as Thomas Dagger, a journeyman baker in Thomas Farriner’s bakery on Pudding Lane. The Great Fire of London 1666 (woodcut) (later colouration) by English School, (17th century) © Museum of London The research was conducted by Professor Kate Loveman at the University of Leicester, who used information from letters, pamphlets, legal and guild records to conclusively find the identity of Thomas Dagger for the first time.
Nov 5, 2020 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
We're delighted to announce our new Twitter exhibition: The Tweetside Hoard. Open now and free to visit, all you have to do is scroll down this thread. And please, no touching the display cases. #TheTweetsideHoard For almost 300 years the Cheapside Hoard lay undisturbed below one of London's busiest streets. Discovered by workmen in 1912, it is the greatest single collection of Elizabethan and Stuart jewellery in the world.
Jun 9, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
The statue of Robert Milligan has stood uncomfortably outside the Museum of London Docklands for a long time, one of only three museums in the UK to address the history of the transatlantic slave trade. (thread) Robert Milligan was a prominent British Slave trader who, by the time of his death in 1809, owned 2 sugar plantations and 526 slaves in Jamaica.
Mar 28, 2019 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
#BornOnThisDay 200 years ago, Sir Joseph Bazalgette brought a lot to London: poo-free streets, super sewers and some epic moustache realness. In his honour, here's a Bazalthread: Bazalgette lived in a time when the streets of London ran with human filth. The city's patchwork system of waste disposal, relied on night-soil collectors who emptied cesspits into rivers like the Fleet and Tyburn.
Long story, short: it was rank.