British Museum Collection Search
Includes a massive collection of eighteenth and ninteenth-century graphic satires by the Cruickshanks, Dighton, Gillray, Newton, Rowlandson; also has a large collection of drawings by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd.
Cary Map of London (1786)
Published as a 50-page pocket atlas.
Charles Booth Online Archive
Site maintained by LSE, containing online versions of the Charles Booth's survey of London life and labour between 1886 and 1903, including his poverty maps.
Collage
Online archive of images of London from Guildhall Art Gallery and London Metropolitan Archives.
Crace Collection of Maps of London
Frederick Crace's collection of maps relating to London and it's vicinity date from 1570 to 1860, and include building plans, and designs for intended developments (including several competeing plans for the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1688). The collection has been scanned and is fully searchable.
Greenwood Map of London (1830)
8 inches to a mile. Survey conducted by Christpher and John Greenwood between 1824 and 1826.
Horwood's Map of London (1792-9)
26 inches to a mile. Survey conducted by Richard Horwood. The largest and most important London map of the 18th century. 26 inches to a mile, the first major map to include house numbers.
Locating London's Past
GIS interface enabling researchers to map and visualize textual and artefactual data relating eighteenth-century London against John Rocque's 1746 map of London and the first accurate modern OS map.
London Lives 1690 to 1800
Searchable parish archives, criminal records, coroner's records, and hospital records.
PhotoLondon
Database of 19th century Photographers and Allied Trades in London.
Roque's Map of London (1746)
26 inches to a mile. Surveyed by John Rocque 1735 to 1746.
Strype's Survey of London and Westminster (1720)
Electronic version of John Strype's enormous two-volume Survey, complete with its celebrated maps and plates, which depict the prominent buildings, street plans and ward boundaries of early eighteenth-century London.
Survey of London
Project dedicated to tracing London's topographical and architectural history and giving a description of its buildings (including many which have been demolished), explaining how they came into being and outlining their significance and historical associations.
The first volume was published in 1900, and new volumes are still being written today.
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