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Lost Victorian City

Exhibition

Curators' Highlights

This exhibition at The London Archives will take you on a journey of a London that has disappeared. Here we showcase some of the highlights of the exhibition which we will be adding to each month.
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Victorian Workhouse Diets
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Victorian architects consult rolled plans at the reconstruction of the Crystal Palace in 1852
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Victorian print showing women modelling the latest fashion
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Victorian Fashion Prints
Exhibition highlights

About the exhibition

On until 5 February 2025

Events

Check out our upcoming event highlights associated with the Lost Victorian City exhibition. Explore our What's On page for more events.
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Relics of Old London
Illustrated Talk
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Curator's Exhibition Tour - Lost Victorian City
One of our curators takes you though the exhibition
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Victorian Spiritualism Talk
and 'The Other Side of Mrs Wood'
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What's On
Latest events and more at The London Archives

London's lost secrets

Tastes from the Lost Victorian City

Discover Victorian recipes tried and tested by us and you! Why not have a go and tell us what you think using: #LostVictorianCityRecipes

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Baked Apple Dumplings
Tastes from the Lost Victorian City
A Victorian recipe favourite for autumn - baked apple dumplings!
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Seed Cake recipe
Tastes from the Lost Victorian City
Experimenting with Victorian recipes - this time we're trying out a seed cake.
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Macaroni Pudding - Victorian school recipe
Tastes from the Lost Victorian City
Pasta in a pudding! We made this Victorian alternative version to rice pudding.
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Lemon Barley Water recipe
Tastes from the Lost Victorian City
Why not try making this refreshing barley water from an old Victorian recipe. It tastes better than it looks!

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