About London

Trafalgar Square in London, feauring the tall stone pillar of Nelson's Column
Photo: Janice Heppenstall: Trafalgar Square, London

London Lives: 1690-1800: crime, poverty and social policy

Old Bailey online: A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court, covering the period 1673-1913

Tallis’s illustrated plan of London and its environs, 1851 – from the David Rumsey Map Collection site

Charles Booth’s London Poverty Map and Notebooks – 1886-1903

Synagogues in the East End and City of London – arranged by street name