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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.

This resource includes over 240,000 manuscript and printed pages from eight London archives and is supplemented by fifteen datasets created by other projects. It provides access to historical records containing over 3.35 million name instances. Facilities are provided to allow users to link together records relating to the same individual, and to compile biographies of the best documented individuals.

Primary funding was provided by the Economic and Social Research Council. Project Directors are Professors Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker and the Project Manager is Dr Sharon Howard. Implemented by the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield and the Higher Education Digitisation Service at the University of

Hertfordshire, this website is hosted by The Digital Humanities Institute.For guidance in using this site see the individual search pages and the Research Guides.Back to TopWhat's NewChanges implemented during London Lives updates are documented on the What's New page.Back to TopProject StaffThe directors of this project, and authors, with Sharon Howard, of all the historical background pages, are Professor 

Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire) and Professor Robert Shoemaker (University of Sheffield).The Project Manager is Dr Sharon Howard.The technical officer responsible for implementing the search engine is Jamie McLaughlin.The technical officers responsible for the automated markup were Ed MacKenzie and Katherine Rogers.The Senior Data Developer, in charge of all the tagging procedures, was Dr Philippa Hardman.The other Data Developers were Anna Bayman, Eilidh Garrett, Carol Lewis-Roylance, Susan Parkinson, Anna Simmons, Gwen Smithson, Nicola Wilcox, and Catherine Wright.The London researcher was Mary Clayton.