AnnR
29-06-2010, 10:24 PM
Was catching up on the weekend papers earlier and came across an article in Sunday's Observer
Quote 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.
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and produced by the universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire, the site allows both amateur and professional historians to search the archives for individuals. Unquote
It went live yesterday and looks like a really useful source for anyone with London ancestors or maybe even if your ancestors were just passing through London. Have had a very quick look and it seems remarkaby simple to use.
http://www.londonlives.org/
ps from the site itself - A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names.
Quote 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.
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and produced by the universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire, the site allows both amateur and professional historians to search the archives for individuals. Unquote
It went live yesterday and looks like a really useful source for anyone with London ancestors or maybe even if your ancestors were just passing through London. Have had a very quick look and it seems remarkaby simple to use.
http://www.londonlives.org/
ps from the site itself - A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names.