London - World City on Display

As part of a long-term plan to renew and expand all of its permanent displays and to mark its 25th anniversary, the Museum of London opens the first and largest of its new galleries, World City, on December 7th. The gallery covers the important historical period from the French Revolution to the First World War when London became the first great metropolis of the industrial age, a city with a globally dominant economy, the financial and commercial capital of an expanding world empire.

How the rapidly expanding metropolis managed to function as it grew in size and population; how it supplied itself with food, fresh water and goods; how  it disposed of its waste; how  Londoners used and were employed within the city, are all questions explored by the new displays.