London Lives website now online

A fantastic new resource has just gone online, providing free access to records covering the lives of ‘plebian Londoners’ from 1690-1800.

From today, you can search over 240,000 manuscript and printed pages from eight London archives plus a further 15 datasets at www.londonlives.org. This is a brilliant opportunity to flesh out what you know about your London ancestors’ lives - there are some really fascinating records available and all are very easy to search.

London Lives 1690 to 1800

The London Lives project is a collaboration between the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield and the Higher Education Digitisation Service at the University of Hertfordshire.