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 Plans for
     new work
John Norman, Lord Mayor 1453-1454, Roger Leigh c.1450. Reproduced by kind permission of Guildhall Library, © Corporation of London and available from COLLAGE at http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk
©Guildhall Library, Corporation of London

The London Livery Companies before the Great Fire

    Help us to
  • produce the first detailed comparative study of the London Livery Companies
  • utilise the rich archives of the Companies and sources available at other record offices
  • explore a series of themes such as buildings and estates, politics and craft regulation
  • produce a major monograph and a fully-searchable electronic resource

Postgraduate Research Training at the Centre for Metropolitan History
Our new University of London MA in Metropolitan and Regional History begins in autumn 2005

    You can

  • establish named bursaries for students to undertake study on the history of London
  • fund postgraduate research posts to allow doctoral students to take advantage of the research environment and expertise of the Centre’s staff
Books on London History
London's Past Online website, http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/lpol London’s Past Online
Created with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, it is
  • a fully-searchable online bibliography of books, articles, theses and other published material relating to the history of Greater London
  • freely available to all through www.history.ac.uk/cmh/lpol
  • widely used and appreciated by historians and the general public

    New funding will develop this important resource through the inclusion of library and archive links, and archaeological material

The Poor Law in London from the 16th century to 1930
The Poor Law, society’s most basic welfare safety net, affected the lives of generations of Londoners

Provide support for a comprehensive online resource for the detailed study of the subject, which will identify the surviving documentation and provide information on the content and inter-relationship of the complex records

Interior view of St James's Parish Workhouse, Pugin, 1809. Reproduced by kind permission of Guildhall Library, © Corporation of London and available from COLLAGE at http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk
©Guildhall Library, Corporation of London

Extracted from Body of boy found in vault under St Botolph Aldgate, 1742. Reproduced by kind permission of Guildhall Library, © Corporation of London and available from COLLAGE at http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk
©Guildhall Library, Corporation of London


Westminster Coroners’ Records, 1760–1879
  • unique snapshots of contemporary life – witness statements from family, friends and passers-by about sudden or suspicious deaths
  • they shed light on housing conditions, sanitation, disease, population growth, everyday social and working life and personal relationships

    • With your sponsorship we can create a free online database to search by family and place-names,
    occupations, ages, gender and cause of death

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