Links
Geohumanities
Indiana University Press blurb on its Spatial Humanities series (one title to date).
Institutions in London
Livery Companies Database, hosted by the Fishmongers' Company. See also the links from our Livery Companies page.
Historical London
London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre (LAARC) Online Catalogue. Catalogue description: "holds summary information on over 7500 sites or projects that have taken place in Greater London over the past 100 years, and the archives for more than 3000 of these sites/projects.
We will be adding mapping facilities to this site soon." Excellent interface allows users to search by Sites, Finds, and Publications.
London Today
Know Your London, by Adrian Prockter
Scholarly Resources on London
Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London (a scholarly journal)
British History Online (a database of secondary resources, many of them out-of-print and hard-to-find)
Housing, Environment and Health in Early Modern London (from the Cambridge University Geography Department)
Reconstituting Families and their Demographic Behaviour in Intra- and Extra-Mural London Parishes c. 1550-1750. Focuses on parishes in Cheapside and Clerkenwell.
Historical Maps of London
Locating London's Past. "Locating London's Past will create an intuitive Geographical Interface System (GIS) that will enable researchers to map and visualize textual and artefactual data relating to seventeenth and eighteenth-century London against a fully rasterised version of John Rocque's 1746 map of London and the first accurate modern OS map (1869-80)."
London: A Life in Maps. Online exhibition at the British Library's website, curated by Peter Barber, Head of British Library Map Collections.
Map of Roman London. Part of online exhibition curated by the Museum of London.
The Grub Street Project: Topographies of 18th-Century London. Project developed and maintained by Allison Muri, University of Saskatchewan. "The Grubstreet Project is a digital edition of 18th-century London. It aims to map the city and its texts to create both a historically accurate visualization of the city's commerce and communications, and a record of how its authors and artists portrayed it."
Greenwood's Map of London 1827. Site developed by Mark Annand and hosted by Bath Spa University.
Libraries, Archives, and Bibliographies
Catalogue of the City of London Libraries
The National Archives. To search collections, go to Access to Archives.
Museum of London Archaeology (MoLA) publications
Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles. Research Guide written by Jean Manco, Associate Lecturer, University of Plymouth. The site "includes hints on planning a research programme, and clues to finding and understanding useful sources. There are bibliographies on everything from architects to Victorian architecture. There are quick guides to archives. There are introductions to a wide range of building types and architectural styles, plus the development of towns and villages. Eccesiastical sources are such a big topic that the Church gets a section to itself."
Cognate Projects on Pageantry
Recreating Early Modern Festivals Project. This wonderful project digitally recreates the urban environment of a number of pageant routes in early modern Europe. See especially the on-line exhbitions.
Cognate Literary Projects
The Holinshed Project. Parallel texts of the 1577 and 1587 editions of Holinshed's Chronicles.
Historical Mapping Projects and Resources
Historic Cities. "This site is a joint project of the Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library. [...] This site contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web."
Shakespeare Resources
Shakespeare on the Internet, by Professor Terry A. Gray
Early Drama
Early Theatre (a scholarly journal and one of our partners). Often prints articles about the mayoral shows or the livery companies.
Early Modern London Theatres (EMLoT). This superb, interactive database "lets you see what direct use has been made, over the last four centuries, of pre-1642 documents related to professional performance in purpose-built theatres and other permanent structures in the London area."
Database of Early English Plays (DEEP), created by Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. "DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks allows scholars and students to investigate the publishing, printing, and marketing of English Renaissance drama in ways not possible using any other print or electronic resource. An easy-to-use and highly customizable search engine of every playbook produced in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the beginning of printing through 1660, DEEP provides a wealth of information about the original playbooks, their title-pages, paratextual matter, advertising features, bibliographic details, and theatrical backgrounds." We find the capacity to search by "imprint location" particularly valuable.
Other Projects
Medieval English Towns, by Stephen Alsford, MA, MLIS (retired from the Canadian Museum of Civilization)
This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.