The Treasures

Discover highlights from our network of  archives. Learn more about these rare images, photographs, documents and artefacts relating to Jewish life in Britain over the past thousand years. Do you have a treasure you’d like to share? Tell us more here.

The Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company Prospectus

Prospectus for Nathan Rothschild's private social housing company • The Rothschild Archive

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The Chuts

Dutch Cigar Makers' London East End Sabbath Meal • Sandys Row Archive

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Sir David Salomons’ Carriage Doors

Carriage Doors belonging to London's first Jewish Lord Mayor • Jewish Museum London

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Jews’ Free School

Boys at Jews' Free School, London • JCR-UK

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Great Tailor’s Strike Balance Sheet

Balance sheet: income & expenditures of the Great Strike of East London tailors, YIVO

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Spiritual Possibilities of Judaism Today

Essay by Lily Montagu, 1898

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Abigail Behrens: Pioneer of Women’s Education

Abigail Behrens, née Lucas, one of the founders of Manchester High School for Girls

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