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Architectural
heritage
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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.
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City
of London Archaeological Society
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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.
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Greater
London Industrial Archaeology Society
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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.
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Hendon
and District Archaeological Society
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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.
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London
and Middlesex Archaeological Society
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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'.
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Orpington
and District Archaeological Society
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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
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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.
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The
Bentham project
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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'.
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The
Bolles collection on the history of London
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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.
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The
British Records Association
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Founded in 1932, the British Records Association
aims to encourage and assist with the preservation,
care use and publication of historical records.
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Charles
Booth Online Archive
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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.
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Collage
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An image database containing 20,000 works
from the Guildhall Library and
Guildhall Art Gallery London.
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Hackney
Archives Department
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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.
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London
Encyclopaedia
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Vast collection of useful information on
London.
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London
Record Society
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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.
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Proceedings
of the Old Bailey London
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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.
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photoLondon
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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.
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University
of London Archives
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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
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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
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Blue
Plaque
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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.
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Centre
for Metropolitan History
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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.
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The
Great Exhibition
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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
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to bring the hordes of visitors to London.
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Greenwood's
Map of London 1827
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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.
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Harben
- a dictionary of the City of London
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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.
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Ideal
homes : Suburbia in Focus
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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.
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Institute
of Contemporary British History
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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.
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Arthur
Sherwell : 'Life in west London'
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Victorian London - Publications - Social
Investigation/Journalism - Life in West London : A
Study and a Contrast, by Arthur Sherwell, 1897
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London
1753
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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.
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London
Discovery
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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.
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The
London Journal
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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.
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London's
Past Online
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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.
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Ten
generations London life since 1700
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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.
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The London
Topographical Society
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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
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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.
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John
Snow
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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.
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Augustus
Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812-1852
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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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Persons |
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64
Baker Street, London W1
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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.
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Brickfields
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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.
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Brixton
History: Then and Now
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A huge series of comparative archive and
modern photographs showing how Brixton has changed
over the years
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Cabinet
War Rooms
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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.
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The
Crossness Pumping Station
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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.
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Eastside
Community Heritage : Hidden Histories
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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.
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Lambeth
Landmark
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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.
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Lewisham
voices
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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.
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Windmills
of London
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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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