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 Wins Two Prizes!

In January 2011 this website won the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Prize for Digital Resources, and co-directors Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker were awarded the Longman-History Today Trustees Award for their "major contribution to history over the past year or years" with the Old Bailey and London Lives projects.

User Wiki Now Live

Use the London Lives Wiki to write and comment on biographies, report corrections, and learn about developments on London Lives.

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 Wiki. 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 first million person city in modern Western Europe? 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.

London Lives 1690-1800 Conference

A conference to mark the completion of the website was held on 5 July 2010 at the University of Hertfordshire. Podcasts of the papers are now available.

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.

Search The Proceedings

Advertisements