Survey of London Online
English Heritage is funding a four-year project to digitize all 45 of the Survey of London 'parish' volumes published to date, making them freely available online via the Institute of Historical Research's British History Online website (BHOL).
Quick, free-text searches will open up the Survey to a whole new readership, as well as revolutionizing access to its wealth of information for existing users. Digitization also provides an opportunity to make corrections and insert important new material which has come to light since the volumes were published. In addition to the text, the web-pages will include all the line drawings and (subject to copyright clearance) plate pages.
Phase one was launched in February 2006, with eight post-war volumes, on the St James's, Soho and Mayfair districts (vols 29-34 and 39-40). Completion of the whole project is planned for September 2008.
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