About 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