Detail The Westminster Election 1788

Detail The Westminster Election 1788Detail from The Westminster Election by Robert Dighton. This pen and watercolour drawing is one of several depictions of the Westminster Election by Robert Dighton in the Museum's collection. Here, Dighton presents us with a scene in Covent Garden during the election of 1788, when Lord John Townshend campaigned against Admiral Lord Hood. Recognisable portraits include the politican Charles James Fox, the Duke of Norfolk and John Wilkes, Chamberlain to

This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous

the women upstairs in the galleries

The Prince of Wales and his mistress can be seen in the decorative phaeton making its way through the crowd

These two maps

this book is both an atmospheric travelogue and a celebration of resilience in the face of change

work was under way to construct the sub-surface station booking hall

This is the land of long-forgotten tube stations

offices and shops of Charing Cross and Cockspur Street

inside and out

version of Maurer's 1741 plate

gender and sexuality in the ways that we do

The working wooden crane is the focal point of this busy yard where a magnetic pulley can lift the shipping containers from ship to dock to lorry and back again