These pages provide background information about the datasets and maps used on this website. For more general introductions to London life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, you may find the background pages of the Old Bailey Online and London Lives helpful.
Centre for Metropolitan History Datasets
London Lives, 1690-1800: Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
Museum of London Archaeological Data (MOLA)
Estimating London's Population
John Rocque's Survey of London, Westminster & Southwark, 1746
Ordnance Survey, 1st Edition Map of London 1863-80