Industrial Heritage

This gallery of vintage imagery explores our industrial and labour-related heritage.

Gallery exploring pollution as a negative industrial legacy on our planet and landscapes across Europe.

Exposure to asbestos - once valued for its qualities - has caused illnesses and death among thousands of workers across Europe and the world.

Brings together photographs of factories and workers from across Europe, where workers became cogs in a machine.

Pioneering photographer Lewis Hine‘s images of industry and labour led to reform and changing laws.

Eduards Kraucs's photography documents the construction of the Ķegums Hydropower Plant, one of Latvia's interwar achievements.

Explore the history of Nokia from Finland and Ericsson from Sweden, two Nordic telecommunications companies

Water, coal, oil, nuclear or wind: for centuries, people have harnessed nature and science to generate energy and electricity for industrial power.

Help us to tell the story of Europe through our working lives in the past and the present.

Explore the stories of working life contributed by people across Europe

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All about our Europe at Work season and activities