Document Types

These pages provide introductions to the different Document Types included in London Lives. You should review this background material in order to make sense of these documents and find out how to locate the information you are looking for. For a more general introduction to interpreting these documents, see How to Interpret an Eighteenth-Century Manuscript, and the associated Research Guides. For information about the institutions which created these documents, see the historical background pages.

For more general introductions to London life in the eighteenth century you may find the background pages of the Old Bailey Online helpful, particularly London and its Hinterlands and Community Histories.

A selection of fragments of cloth left with children given to the Foundling Hospital Textiles left with children given up to the care of the Foundling Hospital. These fabrics are associated with children assigned the following numbers (top to bottom): 13414, 13624, 11772, 13789, 14953, 12924, 13169, 12058. © John Styles and The Foundling Hospital Museum.

See Additional Datasets for details of further sources available through London Lives.

Parish Records

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Sessions and Coroner's Records

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Hospital and Guild Records

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Documents Concerning Crime and Criminal Justice

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Documents Concerning Poverty and Poor Relief

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Alphabetical List by Document Type Codes

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A map indicating the site of the major institutions whose archives are included on this website

The Location of the Major Institutions whose Archives are Included on this Website.

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