The unforgotten Londoners exposed in this archival exhibition

The lives of Londoners who rarely feature in the history books, despite being a regular sight on the streets is the topic of a new exhibition at the London Metropolitan Archives. It tells the stories of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage who lived and worked in the city between 1560 and 1860.The exhibition is the result of an ongoing research project and aims to reveal London’s complex and long-standing diversity, which goes far further back in time than the fam