Exhibition: Unforgotten Lives Outdoor Exhibition

Unforgotten Lives, an outdoor summer exhibition created by London Metropolitan Archives (LMA), presents the stories of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage who lived and worked in the city between 1560 and 1860. Exploring a range of experiences, these multi-layered stories speak of love, enterprise, wealth and family life; discrimination, hardship, resilience and resistance.

Informed by an ongoing research project which aims to reveal London’s complex and long-standing diversity and developed in partnership with Northeastern University London, the exhibition presents evidence of presence and community in documents created nearly 500 years ago. It celebrates well known figures from London’s past and introduces some of the thousands of names discovered in the archives.

Complementing the ongoing exhibition at LMA, this outdoor edition will bring London’s history out of the archives and onto the streets of the City of London.