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The area now covered by the 32 London boroughs. Includes the historic county of Middlesex, and parts of Surrey, Essex and Kent

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'Old and New London' now complete04 July 2006
Noorthouck's London27 June 2006
Survey of London13 February 2006
Survey of London vols 29 & 3002 December 2005

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Survey of London (5)

Latest: 03 August 2006
Detailed studies of the capital’s architecture and topography, since 1894.
2

Chronicles and diaries (London) (2)

Latest: 14 June 2006
3

Old and New London (Thornbury & Walford) (2)

Latest: 07 July 2006
Surveys London and Westminster and their environs (6 volumes, 1878).
4

Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
Database

Digitised: 11 June 2004
Biographical database of medical practitioners in London in a key period in the history of medicine.
5

Four Shillings In The Pound Aid 1693/4
The City of London, the City of Westminster, and Metropolitan Middlesex

Digitised: 01 July 2003
The assessments raised for this tax raised by Parliament to fund King William's European warfare. It was produced by the 'Metropolitan London in the 1690s' project, based at the CMH.
6

A New History of London
Including Westminster and Southwark

Digitised: 28 June 2006
Noorthouck's 'New History' falls into two parts. The first is a narrative history of London from the Roman period until the 1770s. The second gives accounts of the present state of the City (organised by ward), and of much of Westminster, Southwark and Lambeth. It also includes an Appendix of charters and statutes relating to the City, and lists of mayors, bishops and other officers.
7

A History of the County of London: Volume 1
London within the Bars, Westminster and Southwark

Digitised: 14 January 2005
Part-volume, covering the history of the religious houses of the borough of Southwark and the cities of London and Westminster.
8

Morgan's map of the whole of London in 1682

Digitised: 12 July 2004
Survey of the City of London and the surrounding built-up area (including Westminster and part of Southwark), on a scale of 300 feet to the inch, completed in 1682 by William Morgan. From the facsimile produced for the London Topographical Society, 1904.
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Ordnance Survey 1:2,500
Epoch 1

Digitised: 12 December 2005
The County Series maps at scale 1:2500 for Chester, Colchester, Coventry, Oxford and much of central London.
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The Commissions for building fifty new churches
The minute books, 1711-27, a calendar

Digitised: 17 May 2005
Records of the body charged with building new churches to provide for the rapidly growing population of London after the Great Fire. Amongst these 50 churches were several by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
11

London debating societies 1776-1799

Digitised: 17 May 2005
Information on debates and their subjects, as listed in the London press. Reproduced by permission of the London Record Society.
12

A History of the County of Middlesex: online draft

Digitised: 18 June 2003
Draft accounts of sections for the Victoria County History's history of the City of Westminster, to be published as four volumes between 2006 and 2013
13

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: volume 1
St. Paul's, London

Digitised: 11 January 2005
Charts the careers of the bishops of London and higher clergy of St Paul's cathedral and the diocese of London.


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