London Lives, An Online Archive, Has Brought 18th Century Britain To Life

Posted by admin on Jun 29, 2010

London Lives, an online archive containing 240,000 manuscripts and printed pages, published between 1690 and 1800, goes public, providing an invaluable insight into the lives of millions of ordinary people during a momentous century that saw revolution in France, the development of the steam engine and American independence from Britain.

The five-year project, which has involved the digitising of eight London archives, features a rich variety of documents previously all but inaccessible to the public. Among them are workhouse records, criminal registers, coroners’ reports, court orders and papers governing the dispensation of poor relief.

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