Aldgate

21/01/2024

British History Online: digital library of key primary and secondary sources of London history

British History Online is a collection of nearly 1300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world. BHO also provides access to 40,000 images and 10,000 tiles of historic maps of the British Isles.

06/01/2024

Spitalfields Life: For people who care about the East End and are concerned about the future of its built environment

Archivist Stefan Dickers will be giving a lecture at the Hanbury Hall in Spitalfields next Tuesday 9th January at 7pm entitled THE TREASURES OF THE BISHOPSGATE INSTITUTE. As well as its celebrated London photographic collection featured in these pages, the Bishopsgate Archive houses Britain’s larg...

02/01/2024

Heathrow & #8211; the lost hamlet & #187; The Underground Map: Heathrow was a village for centuries before it was an airport

Note: The following account was written by local historian Philip Sherwood in 2007, and featured on a lost website which campaigned against the expansion of Heathrow Airport. In recovering it and f…

21/12/2023

Britain From Above: Old aerial photos of London

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13/12/2023

London Compendium: an amazing book to buy - a treasure of London facts and history

Part of an occasional series of London book recommendations, we have been very impressed in our research with Ed Glinert’s “The London Compendium”. It is a street-by-street guide …

01/12/2023

Pub wiki: London pubs, past and present

Pub history - how to research my ancestors..

29/11/2023

Diary of a Londoness: Diary of a Londoness is a personal and oftentimes quirky London blog

A London Arts, Culture and Lifestyle Blog

23/11/2023

A London Miscellany: Random musings concerning London its streets, buildings, people and history

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22/11/2023

The Londoner: by globetrotter Rosie Thomas is a destination for lifestyle and food related

18/11/2023

The Agas Map: Civitas Londinum is a bird’s-eye view of London first printed from woodblocks in about 1561. Widely known as the Agas map. The map offers a richly detailed view both of the buildings and streets of the city and of its environment.

The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) comprises four distinct, interoperable projects. MoEML began in 1999 as a digital atlas of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London based on the 1560s Agas woodcut map of the city. MoEML now includes an encyclopedia of early modern London people and places, a....