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31/01/2024

A London Miscellany: Random musings concerning London its streets, buildings, people and history

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21/01/2024

The alleyways and courtyards of London: A revival of Ivor Hoole’s GeoCities site listing the alleys and courtyards in Central London

A guide to the alleys, courts, passages and yards of Central London by Ivor Hoole This page is taken from Ivor Hoole’s sadly defunct GeoCities site listing the alleys and courtyards in Centra…

06/01/2024

The Underground Map: Exploring London, street by street

The Underground Map is a project which is creating street histories for the areas of London and surrounding counties lying inside the M25.

31/12/2023

Transport For London: Tube, buses, rail and other public transport within London

Information on all forms of transport in London including cycle hire. Routes, maps, plan a journey, tickets sales, realtime traffic and travel updates.

23/12/2023

London Gardens Trust : The history of London’s parks and gardens

London Parks & Gardens welcomes you to discover the history of London's parks and gardens through our Inventory. Through our regular series of talks and our publications, you can also learn about the people that have shaped London's parks and gardens and ongoing management challenges.

22/12/2023

London The Inside: Keeping Londoners in the know with news and reviews across food, music, fashion and lifestyle. Born from a love of unlocking hidden gems in a big city, London on the Inside connects people to local and global brands, discoveries and experiences.

London's biggest independent digital magazine. Curating the best of what's on in London, including exhibitions, pop-ups, restaurants & more.

14/12/2023

Know Your London: A place to find out about the history of Inner London

A good place to find out about the history of Inner London. There’s no fake-history on this Website.

12/12/2023

Heathrow & #8211; the lost hamlet & #187; The Underground Map: Heathrow was a village for centuries before it was an airport

Note: The following account was written by local historian Philip Sherwood in 2007, and featured on a lost website which campaigned against the expansion of Heathrow Airport. In recovering it and f…

05/12/2023

Survey of London: An architectural look at areas of London, street by street from UCL

The Survey of London, founded in the 1890s, is the nearest thing there is to an official history of London's buildings. This series provides detailed architectural and topographical studies of the capital's built environment.

22/11/2023

Diary of a Londoness: Diary of a Londoness is a personal and oftentimes quirky London blog

A London Arts, Culture and Lifestyle Blog

18/11/2023

The Londoner: by globetrotter Rosie Thomas is a destination for lifestyle and food related

17/11/2023

The Agas Map: Civitas Londinum is a bird’s-eye view of London first printed from woodblocks in about 1561. Widely known as the Agas map. The map offers a richly detailed view both of the buildings and streets of the city and of its environment.

The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) comprises four distinct, interoperable projects. MoEML began in 1999 as a digital atlas of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London based on the 1560s Agas woodcut map of the city. MoEML now includes an encyclopedia of early modern London people and places, a....