Sources

Useful sources of information relevant to George Bradshaw’s Hand Book to London, 1862

Photographs
Elaine Slingsby has a fascinating Pinterest site
Victorian photographs here
Rare, early photographs here. Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn are stunningly beautiful.

Information
Hidden London
London Lives

19C Guidebooks to London
Cunningham, Peter: Handbook of London, Past and Present, 1850, J Murray, London
Mogg’s New Picture of London; or Stranger’s Guide to the British Metropolis, 1848
Cruchley’s London in 1865: A Handbook for Strangers
Routledge: Popular Guide to London, 1873
Black’s Guide to London and its environs, 1882

Blogsites
Spitalfields Life
London Historians

Maps
Old Maps: http://www.oldmapsonline.org/
Maps: https://www.maps.thehunthouse.com/index.htm
Mapco: http://mapco.net/london.htm
The Hunthouse: https://www.maps.thehunthouse.com/index.htm

 

Useful websites
London Remembers – a listing of all the memorials in London
Bombsite
British History Online
The Metadyne Website
The Conservation Area Audit
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Collage – the London Picture Archive
Charles Booth’s London