Completed projects

History in Education An historical record of history teaching as it has developed over the past century in English state schools	London and Middlesex Hearth Tax (1666): an analysis of the status and wealth of neighbourhoods and households on the eve of the Great Fire A collaborative project to edit, and publish, in hard copy and online, the surviving portions of the London and Middlesex returns for Lady Day 1666
The jobbing system of the London Stock Exchange: an oral history A project chronicling the way of life of the London Stock Exchange's jobbers	London women and the economy before and after the Black Death A project on women's status and economic importance across the later Middle Ages
Londoners and the law: pleadings in the court of common pleas, 1399-1509 The aim of this project was to analyse and make available online information from the 'plea rolls' of the court of common pleas	England's Past for Everyone (EPE) Bringing local history to life, through images, audio visual materials and text
Views of hosts: reporting the alien commodity trade, 1440-45 This study examines the government data collected about the alien community during 1440-45	Markets and fairs in England and Wales to 1516 This project has produced a catalogue of markets and fairs in England and Wales up to 1516
Markets and fairs in thirteenth-century England This project builds upon the gazetteer of markets and fairs in England and Wales to 1516	Coventry and Dresden after 1940/45 This project explores the cultural history of two cities, Coventry and Dresden, in the aftermath of WW2
Bibliography of printed works on London history to 1939 and supplement A bibliography of printed works on London history to 1939 (published 1990 or before) and supplement	Sources for the history of London 1939-45: a guide and bibliography A bibliography of printed works on London history from 1939 to 1945
A checklist of unpublished London diaries This guide lists diaries of all periods, that survive in record offices, libraries and private lands	Financial headquarters in the city, 1850-1914 A project looking at a sample of the first generation of large-scale headquarters erected for banks
From counting-house to office: the evolution of London's central financial district, 1690-1870 A project concerned with the impact on its localilty of the emergence of London's financial centre	Borough market privileges in southern England, c.1370-1430 The operation of markets, tolls and trading connections in southern and eastern England, 1370-1430
From craft to industry: London's scientific instrument makers' workshops, 1780-1820 A study investigating the business practices of London scientific instrument makers	Mortality in the metropolis, 1860-1920 The aim of the project is to investigate patterns of mortality in London during a period which witnessed major change in the causes of death.
London cases in the court of Exchequer, 1727-1841 - accessibility study This study provides an introduction to the contents of the Exchequer Court	Metropolitan London in the 1690s A project to study the social and economic geography of London
English merchant culture: the overseas trader in state and society, 1660-1720 A project studying the influence of the merchant classes on politics and society in late Stuart England	Epidemics and mortality in the pre-industrial city: Florence and London compared This is the first study to compare the effect of epidemic disease on two of the major cities of 17th-century Europe
The textile marketing district of the city of London, c.1780-1914 One of a series of studies of the specialised business districts in London in the 19th century	Housing environments and health in early modern London 1550-1750 This project examines the extent to which environmental factors and social characteristics determined the disease and mortality profile of London
Image database of the skilled workforce in early modern London This project aims to provide an introduction to the skilled workforce in early modern London	Optical glass and the scientific instrument trade in London before 1750 This study investigates the spread of expertise in the field of optical glass
The growth of the skilled workforce in London, 1500-1750 This study examines London's transformation into a high-skill centre	Metropolitan market networks, 1300-1600 This project aims to trace the development of trade networks between 1300 and 1600
Market networks and the metropolis: the trade in agrarian produce, c.1400 This project tries to reconstruct the operation of the market system of the London region c. 1400	Feeding the city (I): London's impact on the agrarian economy of southern England, c.1250-1350 A project measuring the impact on its hinterland of the London's demand for food and other supplies
Feeding the city (II): London's impact on the agrarian economy of southern England, c.1290-1400 The study throws light on the growth of commercialised agriculture	St Paul's history 604-2004 This project produced a comprehensive new history of St Paul's Cathedral
Social and economic study of medieval London, c.1100-1666 This project is concerned with the development of the City of London up to the Great Fire of 1666	People in Place: families, households and housing in early modern London, 1550-1720 A project examining the daily lives of early modern Londoners
Register of research in progress on the history of London This project produced a register of research in progress on the history of London	Comparative Metropolitan History The Leverhulme Trust's support for comparative metropolitan history at the CMH