Internet Links

Some useful links to the British Library, and other key sites:

• The British Library: http://www.bl.uk/
• The National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm
• Access to Archives (index of British archives): http://www.a2a.org.uk/
• UK Family History Online (gateway to information about the Census): http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/
• Corporation of London (gateway site for Guildhall Art Gallery/Collage/London Metropolitan Archives - click on 'Leisure and Heritage', then on 'Libraries ...'): http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/
• New York Public Library: http://www.nypl.org/
• Toronto Public Library: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/

Three more specialist archives:

• City of Toronto Archives : http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/archives/
• Westminster Archives Centre: http://www.westminster.gov.uk/archives/
• Charles Booth Online Archive: http://booth.lse.ac.uk/

Two museums; the New York site has links to other New York museums and archives:

• Museum of the City of New York : http://www.mcny.org/
• Museum of London : http://www.museum-london.org.uk/

And some literary excursions:

• City Sites: Multimedia Essays on New York and Chicago 1870s-1930s: http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites/
• Gissing in Cyberspace (e-texts of Gissing novels): http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Gissing.html

And other academic institutions focused on urban history:

• Centre for Metropolitan History: http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/cmh.main.html
• Centre for Urban History, Leicester: http://www.le.ac.uk/ur/