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Browse - London Lives
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Document Types from fourteen archives, and 15
Additional Datasets. By clicking on an individual
Archive, you will be taken to a page which lists all the document types included from that arc...
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Project - About this Project - London Lives
Introduction
London Lives makes available, in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, with a particular focus on
plebeian Londoners. Th...
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Background - Workhouses - London Lives
The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
At regular intervals through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and especially following the establishment of the Royal Hospitals (and in particular Bride...
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Background - Researching Work - London Lives
Introduction
For most Londoners, work of one kind or another was a vital part of their lives, and although few of the records in
London Lives were intended to record working experiences, the vast maj...
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Background - Researching Poverty - London Lives
Introduction
In conjunction with the detection and punishment of crime, the relief of poverty formed the most important function of local government in eighteenth-century London, and the workings of t...
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Background - Researching Crime - London Lives
Introduction
London Lives includes a wide range of sources for the history of crime. In many cases, there are multiple records concerning individual prosecuted crimes. But it must be acknowledged th...