Bishop Gundulf (1024-1108) held England's second episcopal see from 1077 until he died in 1108. The cathedral was subsequently extended on two occasions and is mostly 12 and 13C.

The first exchange building in London was built from 1566 to 1567 on this site by Flemish workers on the model of the Stock Exchange at Anvers, on the initiative of a rich Bishopsgate haberdasher Thomas Gresham (1519-1579). The building burnt down in 1666. Queen Victoria opened the present Royal Exchange in neo-classical style in 1844. Its business stopped in 1939. The courtyard reproduces the early exchange courtyard and retains the paving.

It includes the Docklands and the districts to the north. Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Stepney, Mile End and Bethnal Green, whose populations continued to grow from 17C to 19C as the region developed commercially and industrially, accompanied by overpopulation and misery.
These immigrant quarters on the outskirts have a different atmosphere than the rest of the city. Some of them, like Whitechapel, have once again become dynamic thanks to new businesses and art galleries.

This was created in 1856 and was installed in 1896 in an end of the 19C building in the Italian Renaissance style. It gives an overview of Great Britain's history from Henry VII to today using only portraits, a traditional art in England that reached its peak in the 18C. The old Masters were William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough.
The ground floor and the first floor are reserved for temporary exhibitions.