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A map showing bomb damage during World War II. The original maps are at the London Metropolitan Archives.
A survey of the City of London and the surrounding built-up area, completed in 1682 by William Morgan.
A Map of Tudor London, in about 1520. Reconstructed by modern historians and archaeologists and published by the Historic Towns Trust in 2018.
The Booth Poverty Map from 1898-9. Each street is coloured to indicate the income and social class of its inhabitants.
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1940s-1960s. The most detailed OS maps after the Second World War.

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Charles Dickens' London

Entertaining London is one of several collections curated by the Layers of London team at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA). These collections bring together photographs, films and estate plans from the London County Council archive collection at LMA. London County Council (LCC) was established in 1889. As part of its remit to run public services in the capital, the Council quickly turned it...

A collection created over several months in 2019 by 'Hackney History', a Hackney local history group made up of members of the Friends of Hackney Archives. The collection continues as a work in progress. The Hackney Archives can be visited at Dalston CLR Library. The Friends of Hackney Archves can be joined by visiting www.hackneyhistory.org

The histories of pubs, inns, taverns and breweries past and present