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History > United Kingdom > Online resources
Records, archives, images, newspapers and statistics
Slum Clearance and Re-Housing By the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney (1935) Video
An official film on the need for public housing in Hackney and its provision.
The film documents slum clearing and re-housing by the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, in 1935.
Initially concentrating on the conditions of the slums, the film goes on to show the rejuvenation to the area made by the new housing sites that were built by Bethnal Green Housing Association.
YouTube > LondonsScreenArchive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYps3JvHzoY https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1EQVHER6x3-m1-y53So7w
British Library
British Library > Virtual books
https://www.bl.uk/virtual-books
British Library > Images online
London's Screen Archives LSA
The LSA galleries are a great way to get acquainted with our network's historic film collections.
Each is a curated journey through London's archive film, with commentary, memories and historical context to offer a glimpse into the capital's rich and varied past.
Regularly updated, we are always looking for new themes and places to explore. https://www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/public/galleries.php
https://www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/public/galleries.php
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1EQVHER6x3-m1-y53So7w
Historic footage from the British Pathé digital news archive
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
A sister publication of the Old Bailey Proceedings, the Ordinary’s Accounts, containing biographies of the prisoners executed at Tyburn, were regularly published during the century following the inception of the Old Bailey Proceedings.
They are a valuable source of information about both elite attitudes towards criminality and the lives, attitudes, and dying behaviour of executed convicts.
This website includes all surviving accounts relating to convicts tried at regular sessions of the Old Bailey court which were published under the name of the Ordinary of Newgate.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Ordinarys-accounts.jsp
London parish records from 1538
You can research family records going right back to the reign of Henry VIII.
With over 11 million entries, the unique London Parish Records are part of the London Historical Records collection.
In partnership with London Metropolitan Archives.
Only available online at Ancestry.co.uk, you can now research registers for Baptisms and Burials from 1812 onwards, and marriages after 1754, by forename, surname, locality and type of event.
You can browse earlier registers as digital imaged databases.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/uk/lma
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/26/
UK / USA John Bull and Uncle Sam : Four centuries of British-American relations
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/
The Guardian > Archives
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2017/jun/26/
BBC > On this day
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/default.stm
The National Archives
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/treasures/
Hanover Historical Texts Project > primary texts
https://history.hanover.edu/project.php
The Mass-Observation Archive specialises in material about everyday life in Britain.
It contains papers generated by the original Mass-Observation social research organisation (1937 to early 1950s), and newer material collected continuously since 1981.
UK national statistics
https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics
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