Copyright and Citation Guide
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Copyright
All images of original documents and publications in London Lives are reproduced under license from the archives and libraries which hold the originals: Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museums; Bodleian Library (Oxford); British Library; Early English Books Online; Guildhall Library; Honorable Society of King's Inns (Dublin); Huntingdon Library (San Marino, California); The National Archives; John Rylands Library (Manchester); London Metropolitan Archives; National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh); Osgoode Hall Law Library (Toronto); Westminster Abbey Muniment Room; Westminster Archives Centre.
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Unless otherwise stated, the transcribed texts, XML files and any other textual data created by the London Lives project (excluding the Additional Datasets) are made available for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. The current verson of the XML files can be downloaded from the University of Sheffield data repository.
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- use of extracts in family histories
The examples are not intended to be comprehensive. For further context, please consult Creative Commons' guidance on NonCommercial interpretation, and contact the project for advice if in doubt. We aim to be as open to re-use as possible, while retaining the ability to generate income that will help to sustain the website in the future.
Citation Guide
All citations to this website should include the URL (www.londonlives.org), the current version number, found in the bottom left of every page on this site and the date on which the website was consulted.
The Project
To cite the project and web site as a whole please use the following format:
- Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker, Sharon Howard and Jamie McLaughlin, et al., London Lives, 1690-1800 (www.londonlives.org, version 1.1, 24 April 2012).
Subsequent citations might be shortened to:
- London Lives [or LL].
See Project Staff for a complete list of the project team, and their roles in creating the site.
Citing Manuscripts and Documents
If you wish to cite text from a manuscript, please include the document title and the project reference number for the individual page you wish to refer to. You also need to indicate the original archive and reference for the physical manuscript. All of this information is included in the heading for each page. Please use the following format:
Subsequent citations to the same manuscript (consulted at the same time) could use a shortened form, such as:
Citing the Old Bailey Proceedings and Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts
If you wish to cite text from a trial published in the Old Bailey Proceedings, please include the month and year of the sessions, the defendant's name, and the trial reference number (found at the top of each trial), using the following format:
Subsequent citations in the same series could use a shortened form, such as:
To cite a whole Sessions, if for instance you are referring to jury lists or summary information, use the following format:
To cite one of the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts use the following format:
Subsequent citations could use a shortened form such as:
Although the versions of the Proceedings and Ordinary's Accounts included here are the same texts as those available through the associated website, The Old Bailey Online, 1674-1913, they cover a shorter time period, and are searched using a different methodology. You should cite the version you have actually consulted. Please refer to the Old Bailey Online Citation Guide if you have discovered the material you are citing using that resource.
Citing Additional Datasets
Most of the additional datasets, such as the St Martin's Settlement Examinations, were developed by other projects and researchers, and are posted on this website as a public resource. When citing data gleaned from these sources the reference should include the original author or project, as well as information about this site and the original archive, and should take the form of:
Subsequent citations to the same source could use a shortened form, such as:
Citing Historical Background Materials
If you wish to cite one of the pages from the Historical Background section of London Lives, please identify Tim Hitchcock, Sharon Howard and Robert Shoemaker as the authors, and use the following format:
Subsequent citations to the same article could use a shortened form, such as:
Citing Lives
If you wish to cite one of biographies included in the Lives section of this website please ensure you include the name of the main author listed at the end of each life. The citation should take the form of:
Subsequent citations to the same article could use a shortened form, such as: