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- Architectural
heritage
- The Corporation of London preserves and
protects some of the finest examples of the City's architectural
heritage - from the medieval Guildhall and Thames bridges to a Georgian
town house and, beyond the City, the Grade One listed Keats House and
an Elizabethan hunting lodge.
- City
of London Archaeological Society
- It has had the privilege of working
alongside the archaeologists from the Museum of London on many of the
great Roman, Saxon and medieval digs beneath the city's streets and
buildings. It has also conducted excavations in its own right.
- Greater London
Industrial Archaeology Society
- The Greater London Industrial
Archaeology Society (GLIAS) was founded in 1968 to record relics of
London's industrial history and to deposit these records with national
and local museums, archives, etc; also to advise local authorities and
others on the restoration and preservation of historic industrial
buildings and machinery.
- Hendon
and District Archaeological Society
- The objects of HADAS are the advancement
of archaeological and historical research and education for the public
benefit with particular reference to the archaeology and history of the
London Borough of Barnet.
- London
and Middlesex Archaeological Society
- The Society was founded in 1855 'for the
purpose of investigating the antiquities and early history of the
Cities of London and Westminster and the Metropolitan County of
Middlesex'.
- Orpington
and District Archaeological Society
- The Orpington and District
Archaeological Society promotes the study of archaeology in the Upper
Cray Valley by undertaking excavations, carrying out research into the
archaeology of the area and encouraging public interest through
meetings and visits.
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- Archives
in London
- Archives in London and the M25 area - a
major project to provide electronic access to collection level
descriptions of the archives of over fifty higher education
institutions and learned societies within the greater London area.
- The
Bentham project
- The aim of the Bentham Project is to
produce a new scholarly edition of the works and correspondence of
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the influential jurist, philosopher, and
social scientist, whom A.J.P. Taylor described as `the most formidable
reasoner who ever applied his gifts to the practical questions of
administration and politics'.
- The
Bolles collection on the history of London
- Part of the Perseus Digital Library, the
Web site featuring the "Bolles Collection on the History of London" is
an excellent on-line resource for historians of London, cartographers
and those researching the literature of London.
- The
British Records Association
- Founded in 1932, the British Records
Association aims to encourage and assist with the preservation, care
use and publication of historical records.
- Charles
Booth Online Archive
- The Charles Booth Online Archive is a
searchable resource giving access to archive material from the Booth
collections of the British Library of Political and Economic Science
(the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science)
and the University of London Library.
- Collage
- An image database containing 20,000
works from the Guildhall Library and
Guildhall Art Gallery London.
- Hackney Archives
Department
- The Hackney Archives Department looks
after the archives of Hackney - the administrative records of the
borough council and its predecessors back to 1700, and of organisations
and individuals within the borough.
- London
Encyclopaedia
- Vast collection of useful information on
London.
- London Record Society
- Founded in December 1964 to publish
transcripts, abstracts and lists of the primary sources for the history
of London, and generally to stimulate interest in archives relating to
London, the Society aims to publish a volume a year.
- Proceedings of the
Old Bailey London
- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London
1674 to 1834. A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of
texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published,
containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's
central criminal court.
- photoLondon
- London's libraries, museums and archives
possess a treasure house of modern and historic photographs of London.
The photoLondon website exists to highlight and promote these
collections.
- University
of London Archives
- Archive material preserved by the
University of London Library is, for convenience, divided into two
management groups, the University Archives, and Deposited Collections
and Manuscripts. The University Archives are the records created by the
central administration of the University of London, and which have been
selected for permanent preservation.
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- Society
of Antiquaries of London
- In effect the Society's interests cover
a very wide field, embracing all aspects of archaeology, architectural
and art history, conservation, heraldry, anthropological,
ecclesiastical, documentary, musical and linguistic study - the common
link being that all these subjects are based on the study of the
material remains of the past
- Blue
Plaque
- Many famous individuals have lived and
toiled at London addresses throughout its illustrious past.
BluePlaque.com is dedicated to providing a record of the plaques that
commemorate these individuals and their work.
- Centre for
Metropolitan History
- Promotes the study and wide appreciation
of London's character and development from its beginnings to the
present day, and is concerned to set the history of London in the wider
context provided by knowledge of other metropolises.
- The
Great Exhibition
- It was the first great international
exhibition, and it came at what must have seemed an auspicious time.
The Year of Revolutions was past, although in Britain, relatively free
of revolutionary spirit except for Chartist manifestations, there was a
good deal of concern that the Exhibition would encourage an invasion of
foreigners - socialists or worse! The Railway Age was well-established,
and track mileage in Britain had doubled in the five years before the
Exhibition opened; without those railways it would have been impossible
to assemble the exhibits - or to bring the hordes of visitors to London.
- Greenwood's
Map of London 1827
- This is a scan of a beautifully
detailed, sectioned map of London as it was in 1827. Greenwood's map is
scaled at eight inches to the mile, covers London and surroundings and
stretches out to Earls Court in the West, to the River Lea and
Greenwich in the East, Highgate to the North and to the South,
Camberwell.
- Harben - a dictionary of
the City of London
- A gazetteer of over 6000 street and
place names in the City of London; their location, origin and changes.
Henry Harben died in 1910 and his work was published posthumously in
1918. Unfortunately Harben died before being able to complete the
extension of his work to cover Westminster and Southwark.
- Ideal homes : Suburbia
in Focus
- Suburbia, however, is much more than
that. Using the rich and unique archive collections of six London
boroughs, this Web site looks at how and why suburbs have developed.
Users can find out how villages and settlements were swallowed up in
the path of the big city; how they have changed over the last two
hundred years and what it's like to live in a suburb.
- Institute
of Contemporary British History
- Aims to be a national and international
centre leading the development of the academic discipline of
contemporary history and its dissemination to a public audience.
- Arthur
Sherwell : 'Life in west London'
- Victorian London - Publications - Social
Investigation/Journalism - Life in West London : A Study and a
Contrast, by Arthur Sherwell, 1897
- London
1753
- This exhibition explores London in the
middle of the 18th century, when it became the largest city in the
western world. Objects include watercolours by Paul and Thomas Sandby,
drawings and prints by Hogarth and London drawings by Canaletto. There
are watches, jewellery and medals, coins, Spitalfields silk, spurs for
fighting cocks, shop signs and a first edition of Samuel Johnson's
Dictionary of the English Language.
- London
Discovery
- Seven web sites created for you to
discover untold facts about London's people, places, buildings and the
growth of our world city. A consortium project involving libraries,
archives, museums and other institutions.
- The London
Journal
- Devoted to London's historical
development, current condition, and future prospects, the journal
publishes articles relating to the city's history, economy, politics,
sociology, geography, architecture, art and literature. In 1995 it
celebrated 20 years of publication.
- London's Past
Online
- Produced by the Centre for Metropolitan
History in association with the Royal Historical Society Bibliography,
London's Past Online is a free online bibliography of published
material relating to the history of the Greater London area. In it, you
will be able to find everything relating to the history of the capital,
from counting house to music hall; from the Fire to the Blitz; from
Whittington to Livingstone.
- Ten generations
London life since 1700
- Explore some of London's premier
archive, local studies library and museum collections to discover how
life in London has changed for the last ten generations of Londoners
and visitors to the capital. Ten Generations draws on original evidence
held in local collections to tell the stories of how our forebears
lived their lives, the changes they will have seen, and some of the
historical events they may have witnessed during the last 300 years.
- The
London Topographical Society
- The society concentrates exclusively on
publishing books and sheet material illustrating the history, growth
and topography of London. For more than a century the Society has
remained true to the vision of its founders by making available maps,
plans and views, and by publishing research, to assist the study and
appreciation of London.
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- The
Churchill Society
- The Churchill Society is not a fan club.
It is a society devoted to the memory of the courage, tenacity and
awful sacrifices made by ordinary men and women, both at home and
overseas, in defeating the Kaiser's and Nazi imperialism - the latter
under Churchill's inspiring leadership.
- John Snow
- This site is devoted to the life and
times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history
of public health, epidemiology and anaesthesiology.
- Augustus
Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812-1852
- Great Britain's foremost architect and
designer of the nineteenth century, a man with extraordinary talent,
verve and perspicacity. A man who believed in himself, and harboured a
passion for Gothic and the Roman Catholic Church.
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- 64 Baker Street,
London W1
- This web site, created in 1995, tells
the story of an extraordinary group of women who worked for the Special
Operations Executive (S.O.E.) during World War Two. It does not intend
to glamorise or hero worship the women - the work was far from
glamorous - but to simply show the intricate work they did, the
extraordinary courage they showed and the sacrifices they made.
- Brickfields
- This educational site, designed for
life-long learners, explores the history of the London borough of
Hackney from Roman times to the present day. Six historical periods are
covered, Roman, Medieval, Tudor, Georgian, Victorian and the twentieth
century, and in each section the landscape, homes, employment,
transport are looked at, as well as interesting relics from that era.
- Brixton
History: Then and Now
- A huge series of comparative archive and
modern photographs showing how Brixton has changed over the years
- Cabinet War Rooms
- It seemed that the nightmare of mass
slaughter of civilians and the destruction of ordered government might
be realised and the question became more urgent as to how the Prime
Minister, his Cabinet and the central core of the military command
could be protected in the event of a war involving the European powers.
- The Crossness Pumping
Station
- The Crossness Pumping Station was built
by Sir Joseph Bazalgette as part of Victorian London's urgently needed
main drainage scheme. It was officially opened by the Prince of Wales
in April 1865.
- Eastside
Community Heritage : Hidden Histories
- Eastside Community Heritage was
established in 1993 as part of the Stratford City Challenge community
history project. In 1997 Eastside became an independent charity. Over
the years Eastside has worked on numerous projects documenting the
lives of 'ordinary' people from and who live in East London.
- Lambeth Landmark
- Landmark on the Web gives instant access
to the Lambeth Archives image collection. Landmark is a showcase for
the best 6,000 images from the Lambeth Archives collection of 30,000
old photographs, drawings, prints and water colours. These have now
been digitised and are available here.
- Lewisham
voices
- These images and personal recollections
have been gathered from individuals and groups who took part in the
Lewisham Voices project. They have been compiled from the family albums
and stories of people who live, work or are involved in community
activities in the borough. Together they give a fascinating insight
into some of the memories and experiences, happy and sad, that help to
make Lewisham what it is today.
- Windmills
of London
- Since ancient times, man has harnessed
the power of the wind to provide motive power for transportation.
Likewise, the technique of grinding grain between stones to produce
flour is similarly ancient, and widespread. Quite where and when these
two came together in the first windmill is unknown
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