Escape to Epping Forest in our archives! 🌳 Get hands-on with the history of London's largest open space at our free event. Explore original maps, vintage photos, and fascinating documents that tell the story of this ancient woodland. All tickets are FREE. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-o...

What made London a world-leading city? 📈 Join us for an expert talk by Professor Patrick Wallis exploring the vital role of apprentices in London's history. See the original documents up close! Limited tickets available. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/apprentice... #History #London #Archives

Think you're having a bad start to your week? Spare a thought for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. 😬 On this day in 1529, the most powerful man in England (besides the King) had his career implode. As Lord Chancellor, Wolsey was Henry VIII's right-hand man, living a life of immense wealth and influence.

Marginalia... Ornate H's... Indeterminate beasts... Snails with ears.... Declarations of love for Elizabeth I.... This Churchwarden's account book from the 1570s has it all.

This week 85 years ago, the Battle of Britain raged in the skies above London and the south of England. RAF fighter pilots began to start to turn the tide, inflicting more loses to German sorties than they received overall. However, many bombs still found their way onto the streets of London.

Next month we are hosting another The First Archive We Knew workshop, hosted by Cassia Clarke! The workshop is beginner-friendly and designed to introduce you to the fundamentals of preserving personal photographs 📸 🕐 12:30-4pm 📆 11th October 🎟️ buff.ly/iu2CUDt #Archives #workshop #Conservation

We're back with another #DiscoverTLA and this time we're looking at #CivitasLondinum, one of the oldest maps in our collection currently on show as part of our #Shakespeare in London display Sheet 8 showing the southern part of the City and Southbank 📷 LPA 346649 🧵 1/6

Our next #ArchivesOnShow is on London's Militia! Here is a preview of one our fantastic staff members talking about London's earliest muster rolls 📜 🕐 1pm and 2pm 📆 Friday 12th September 📍 The London Archives

We are open for #OpenHouseFestival this weekend and you can still get tickets for our 1pm Behind The Scenes Tour! Have you always wondered how we store our 100km of material? Book your ticket below to find out... 👇

Ahead of the planned Tube strikes between 7 and 12 September - We will remain open to the public, and all our scheduled events are going ahead as planned. Please check your journey before you travel, and check our visitor pages for any updates. www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us

@brixtonwindmill.org is a huge restoration success, with a thriving community centre thanks to decades of tireless work by local heroes. Several open days are coming up - it’s well worth a visit to see this inspirational success story, a short walk from Brixton underground station. Play park nearby.

Brixton Windmill was built in 1816, and still grinds flour today. It is Grade II* Listed, and some of its buildings were demolished so that Windmill Park could be created in the 1960's. It's visible on part of this map from our Folded Maps collection from 1863. 📷 LPA, 331221

Ahead of the planned Tube strikes between 7 and 12 September - We will remain open to the public, and all our scheduled events are going ahead as planned. Please check your journey before you travel, and check our visitor pages for any updates. www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us

How would modern Londoners react to 80% of their city burning down today? How would they communicate in the chaos their confusion, suspicion and grief? This week marks the 359th anniversary of the ‘Great Fire of London’. 🧵 👇 #GreatFireOfLondon #History

How would modern Londoners react to 80% of their city burning down in a firestorm today? How would they communicate in the chaos their confusion, suspicion and grief?

Last few tickets! 🎟️ Join us for a special guided walk, "Art of the London Blitz, 85 Years On," on Sunday, September 7th, to mark the 85th anniversary of the Blitz. buff.ly/bR9Fn90 #LondonInTheSecondWorldWar #Archives

#FunFact: we legally have to keep this register as it is a public record! Our Collections Care team now use it to show the ways fire can do irreparable damage to our collections. #Archives #ParishRegister #History

There are only a few tickets left! 🏃‍♀️ 📅Wednesday 3rd September 🕠5:30pm 📍The London Archives

📜 Explore the treasures of @thelondonarchives.bsky.social at #VictorianLondonWeek (8–12 Sept). 🎟️ Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Ev...

The National HIV Story Trust has an exciting opportunity for someone to join the HIVstory project based at #TheLondonArchives on a paid archives placement. Full details on the role and how to apply are below 👇 #NHST #HIVstory #Archives www.nhst.org.uk/archive-plac...

Still time to get tickets if you move quick! 🏃👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keats-life...

It's National Dog Day! 🐶 Here are some photos to fill your feed with some cuteness🥰 📷 London Picture Archive #NationalDogDay #TheLondonArchives

It's Bank Holiday Weekend! This is a clip taken from the film 'Green Islands' of August Bank Holiday on Hampstead Heath🌳 You can view the full film on our catalogue and our YouTube! What are your plans for this bank holiday? Hope you have a good one!☀️

Then & Now: Blackfriars Bridge Swipe to see Blackfriars Bridge today in 2025, alongside a beautiful watercolour of its grand opening by Queen Victoria in 1869. Thanks to @thelondonarchives.bsky.social for the historic image. #CityBridgeFoundation #BlackfriarsBridge #ThenAndNow

It's Notting Hill Carnival's 57th year this August bank Holiday!💃 Notting Hill Carnival is one of the longest running street parties in the world! Born in 1966 by London's Caribbean communities to celebrate culture, freedom, music and unity🪇 📸 Taken by Christ Schwarz

📣Two new events in collaboration with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social! 📣 Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800 | 15 Oct | 5.30 - 7.30pm tinyurl.com/2uayfe7r From Bones to Books to Blitz Scrap – What London Recycled during the Second World War | 10 Dec | 5.30 - 7.30pm tinyurl.com/3t2f435p

🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840? The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners! #SwitchingTheLens

🚨 To Detain or To Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840 🚨 📅 Wednesday 3 September @ 5:30pm 📣 @kiranmehta.bsky.social discusses the diverse penal landscape of 18th century London. An incredible book using many TLA documents! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-detain-...

#OTD in 1839 the City of London Police Act was passed, changing the name of the London City Police, established in 1832, to the City of London Police. This image shows the City Police station on Bishopsgate in 1866 📷 LPA: 316298 #Archives #CityPolice #History

Excellent workshop today on Clerkenwell maps by Tom Furber @thelondonarchives.bsky.social with Clare Paul of Islington Heritage. One showed the village in Queen Elizabeth's reign: St James's Church, the Clerks' Well, and Knights Templar house. Next workshop is on September 19 tinyurl.com/2xr4ablu

Fri 15 Aug 12.30-2pm at @thelondonarchives.bsky.social Clerkenwell: A History in Maps – The Past in the Present. In this workshop we will handle & view some of The London Archives’ historic maps of Clerkenwell, to see how maps can be used to reveal the ways the past lives on in the present.

We're back with another #DiscoverTLA and this time we're looking at #TowerBridge because #OTD in 1885, the Corporation of London (Tower Bridge) Act was passed, authorising the bridge's construction... 📷 LPA: 235947 🧵 1/8

🎉 It's the 100th anniversary of Keats House opening to the public 🎉 ✒️ Down in Clerkenwell we're celebrating with a talk on Keats' Life in London (and if you hop on the Northern Line at Angel you can go visit Keats House in Hampstead after!). 🗓️ 28 August 12:30pm

In honour of #SouthAsianHeritageMonth, we've published a blog post highlighting the vital contributions of London's South Asian communities to civil defence during the Second World War.🌏Focusing on Auxiliary Ambulance Station 50, we shed light on stories that remain relatively unknown. #ww2

Read this great blog from @thelondonarchives.bsky.social www.thelondonarchives.org/blog/londons...

It's been a year being The London Archives🥳 What an amazing year we've had! Thank you to everyone who has supported us, we couldn't have got this far without you❤️ p.s. it's not just you, its the staff too 😉 #TheLondonArchives #1yearanniversary #archives

One of only six in the world ✍️ This is William Shakespeare’s signature on the deed of a house he bought in Blackfriars in 1613, now on display at The London Archives. Join our talk to uncover the story behind this rare document: 📍 In-person and online 📅 11th September 🎟️https://buff.ly/CalUb7r

We made a trip to @durham-university.bsky.social for #DCDC25. Among the many panels was an incredible keynote speech by the co-founders of the National HIV Story Trust, set up to film, record and preserve the history of those affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 90s. #NHST 🧵 1/4

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Ever wondered how to store your photos? 📣 Preserving the Familial Archive 📅 Wed 6 August 5:30pm 📖 Cassia Clarke discusses her new book offering practical, sustainable, and cost-effective strategies for preserving printed photographic #archives in your home 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving...

We're very pleased to be hosting #RAG2025. This year the theme is digitisation in #archives of religion and belief, so get your tickets now to not miss out!

A photo of Mile End Road, 1900. The clock tower was built in 1840 and is Grade II Listed, but the surrounding area was badly damaged in 1940 and no longer survives. See this image and others in the London's East End gallery on the London Picture Archive: buff.ly/WjzZpMe #London #EastEnd #Stepney

📖 Ever wondered what an #archive looks like beyond the reading rooms? 📚 Join us for our monthly behind the scenes tours of our site, featuring over 100km of shelving, followed by a special display of historic documents 📜 📅 Next tour - Wednesday 6 August 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the... .

We're back with another #DiscoverTLA exploring our trade card collection 🔍 Naturally we're starting with *not* a trade card! In fact this is a 1730 newspaper clipping advertising the business of Elizabeth Cluer, which is in our trade card collection... 📷 SC/GL/TCC/00/CLA-COX #EarlyModern 1/7 🧵

How wonderful to see @thelondonarchives.bsky.social mentioned in this newsletter! (And we appreciate the mention of a *small* amount of form filling... it only takes 2-3 minutes to register for a History Card, and then our 100km of records are yours to order at your leisure!)

It's the *LAST DAY* to vote for us to win ARA's Record-Keeping Service of the Year award! Click below if you want to support us:👇 www.archives.org.uk/recordkeepin... @araukie.bsky.social

Do you like a timelapse? We love a timelapse! Here is timelapse of our staff installing our *FREE* Shakespeare in London display. 📅 On display until 2nd October 2025 Tickets: www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exh... #Shakespeare #London #FreeEvent #Archives #LondonHistory

The Bayeux tapestry is being lent to British Museum but Reading already has a Victorian replica 'Reading’s replica Bayeux tapestry is a prudish triumph!', The Guardian www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/15/never-mind-the-norman-bollocks-readings-replica-bayeux-tapestry-is-a-prudish-triumph

Do you like a timelapse? We love a timelapse! Here is timelapse of our staff installing our *FREE* Shakespeare in London display. 📅 On display until 2nd October 2025 Tickets: www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exh... #Shakespeare #London #FreeEvent #Archives #LondonHistory

Another area of #LocalHistory research we want you to consider this #ThoughtfulTuesday is oral history. Recording the memories of living people in your place can be vital to the story, so look to record them while you still can. #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll