Learning Online
Half a million years of history for you to discover!
Features and Factpacks
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.
Historical Periods
- General
- For an overview of life in London now and throughout history, and our new Picture Bank
- 500,000BC to 43AD
- Prehistory: What were people doing here 450,000 years before Romans founded Londinium?
- 43 to 410AD
- The town of Londinium was founded by settling Romans and became a thriving city
- 410 to 1558
- Anglo-Saxon, Viking, medieval & Tudor: From the rubble of the Roman Empire, a new London gradually emerged
- 1558 to 1837
- Stuarts, Civil War, Restoration & Georgian: London was an exciting place full of risk and opportunity
- 1837 to 1913
- Victorian & Edwardian: London flourished, with high culture - and an underworld of poverty and crime
- 1914 to 1945
- First and Second World War & the inter-war years
- 1945 to present
- Postwar to the present
