Sources for London Lives
A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names.
To search London Lives use the boxes on the right or go to the Search Pages.
London Lives 1690-1800 Conference
A conference to mark the completion of the website will take place on 5 July 2010 at the University of Hertfordshire. A programme and registration details can be found at http://londonlives18th.wordpress.com.
Register to Use London Lives
Although anyone can search London Lives, registration allows you to use a personal workspace to link documents together and create biographies of eighteenth-century Londoners. It also gives you access to advanced search facilities and the project wiki (coming soon), where you can write and share biographies. Registering is free. For example biographies, see the Featured Life on this page and the Lives pages.
London Life in the Eighteenth Century
What was it like to live in the world's first million person city? Crime, poverty, and illness; apprenticeship, work, politics and money; how people voted, lived and died; all this and more can be found in these documents. For more information see the Historical Background pages.
About this Project
Funded by the ESRC, and implemented by the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield and the Higher Education Digitisation Service at the University of Hertfordshire, the London Lives project is directed by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker. The project manager is Sharon Howard. See about this project.
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Featured Life
Garret Lawler, 1725-1751
Born in Dublin in 1725, Lawler became enmeshed in a violent and complicated world of criminal accomplices, loyalties and betrayals, aliases, perjury, and false alibis, which led not only to his own execution but also to that of his brother. Read more