London
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18th CENTURY LONDON - MAP |
This link takes you to an intuitive GIS interface enabling researchers to map and visualize textual and artefactual data relating to seventeenth... |
London, 18th century, Collections, Collectors, Historical Maps, Enlightenment | view |
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Charles Booth on-line archive |
Extensive information about social reformer Charles Booth (1840-1916) and his seminal survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903). |
19th century, Victorian, Social history, Social reform, Poverty, Houses & housing, Employment, Historical Maps, Urban & metropolitan history, London, History | view |
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Greenwood's Map of London 1827 |
A comprehensive map of London from 1827. It is possible to use the website to focus in on individual areas of the city in full detail. |
London, Nineteenth-century, Urban history, Historical Maps, History | view |
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John Snow Archive & Research Companion |
John Snow (1813–1858) is revered as a founding father of two medical disciplines: anesthesiology and epidemiology. His contributions during the... |
Epidemiology, Anesthesiology, Public health, Victorian, 19th century, London, Urban & metropolitan history, Medical science, Historical Maps, History | view |
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Port Cities UK |
Maritime histories of UK port cities: Bristol, Hartlepool, Liverpool, London and Southampton. |
Maritime, Urban & metropolitan history, Economic history, Social history, London, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, History | view |
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Shakespeare's London |
Shakespeare made his stage a world, but he himself probably never travelled further than London. But his London was one of the biggest cities in... |
London, shakespear | view |
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The Dictionary of Victorian London |
Contains primary sources covering the social history of Victorian London, including extracts from Victorian newspapers, diaries, journalism,... |
Social history, Women, Transport, River Thames, Shops & shopping, Technology, Science, Victorian, London, 19th century, Advertising, Architecture, Charities, Childhood, Clothing & fashions, Communications, Crime, Death & dying, Human diseases, French Education, Entertainment, Finance, Food & drink, Health & hygiene, Houses & housing, Legal system, Lighting, Markets, Police, British politics, Photography, Populations, Prisons, Professions & trades, Religion, History | view |
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The Great Exhibition, 1851 |
Resources concerned with the Great Exhibition of 1851 at Crystal Palace in London, including watercolours of the Great Exhibition, eye-witness... |
Victorian, 19th century, Art, Industry, London, History | view |
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The health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991 |
This study compares the extent to which late 20th century patterns of mortality in London are predicted by contemporary patterns of poverty and by... |
Poverty, Victorian, London, Death | view |
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The Old Bailey On-line |
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913, a fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever... |
Justice, London, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, Modern, Legal system, Crime, History | view |