Resources Websites

Other relevant websites

Old Bailey Online: www.oldbaileyonline.org.  A searchable online database of documents relating to criminal trials in London, 1674-1913; a very rich source.

Centre for Metropolitan History, University of London: http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/cmh.main.html.  The of a research center dedicated to the history of London, affiliated with the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London.  The site includes descriptions of current projects and online articles.

London's Past Online: www.history.ac.uk/cmh/lpol.  An online bibliography of publications on London history maintained by the Centre for Metropolitan History.

British History Online, London section: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/place.aspx?region=1.  A substantial collection of print sources relating to the history of London that have been digitized and placed on the web by the Institute for Historical Research, in collaboration with English Heritage.  These include 41 volumes of the Survey of London, covering the topography of London neighborhoods, Stow's Survey of London and other primary documents.  Some of these are available to all users, while others require payment of a modest subscription fee.  

The Museum of London: www.museumoflondon.org.uk: The website of the Museum of London, which in addition to its extensive exhibits on London history is also responsible for an extensive program of arachaeological research.  The site includes images of objects in the Museum's collection.

Historic Royal Palaces: http://www.hrp.org.uk/.  The official site of the agency responsible for historic royal palaces in Britain.  Pages within this site are dedicated to the Tower of London, Hampton Court, the Whitehall Banqueting House, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace
 
John Strype's Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster: http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/strype/.  An online edition of Strype's 1720 updated edition of Stowe's Survey of London, containing topographic surveys and maps of London neighborhoods.

The Victoria and Albert Museum: http//vam.ac.uk has a website that includes guides to period styles in architecture and material culture, for example http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/british_galleries/bg_styles/Style03a/index.html for the Restoration.

Wenceslaus Hollar digital collection: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/hollar/.  A collection of digitized images of engravings by Hollar, many relating to London, maintained by the University of Toronto.

English Broadside Ballad Archive: http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/.  An online collection of English ballads compiled by the University of California Santa Barbara.  Many relate to London.

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A website developed at the University of Massachusetts to facilitate the teaching of courses on the cultural, political and literary history of London, with a grant from the the University of Massachusetts System Office, through the Information Technology Council's Subcommittee on Academic Technology, and in collaboration with the Research Center for Urban Cultural History of the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Five College Early Music Program.