Join us for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgraduate students and researchers make the most of archival collections.

Guide outlining the most useful records and digital sources available for researching the history of a London house, its occupants and the local streets.

Learn about the remarkable life and writings of Isabella Whitney who become the first women in England to earn a living from printing her poetry.

Collection Encounter: The London Archives

Inspired by our 'Londoners on Trial' exhibition this article by Howard Doble explores the case of John Shropshire from the records at The London Archives.

Find out all about the now demolished Finsbury Park Empire - built in 1910

Join us for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgraduate students and researchers make the most of archival collections.

On 18th May at 17:00(GMT)/12:00(EST), we will discuss a pre-circulated paper titled ‘John Satia and the 1731 Ban on Black Apprenticeship’ by Jamie Gemmell (King’s College London). During the seminar...

Here we take a closer look at sources held at The London Archives to research the Great Exhibition of 1851 further and the legacy of the exhibition.

Just outside the City of London, in the secluded streets once occupied by the monastic precinct of the Black Friars, is an unassuming warehouse building

Join Dr Jonah Miller to explore a forgotten episode in the early history of British policing.

April 2025 commemorates the 60th anniversary of the abolition of the Ancient County of Middlesex. Much of what we now think of as London north of the Thames, from Hackney in the East LPA: 25062 to…

Learn more about the life and crimes of Minnie Pheby, a Victorian lady burglar who broke in to dozens of houses across West London between 1896 and 1900.

Join us for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgraduate students and researchers make the most of archival collections.

Join us for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgraduate students and researchers make the most of archival collections.

Learn more about the life and crimes of Minnie Pheby, a Victorian lady burglar who broke in to dozens of houses across West London between 1896 and 1900.

London has a dark underbelly, and a new exhibition is taking a look at seven centuries of crime and punishment in the capital, drawing on the vast legal records preserved in the London Archive’s collections. 

In this article from The London Archives, read about the Clerkenwell explosion of 1867.