Overview
[AI Summary]: The Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield has launched a substantially updated version of the London Lives website, a fully searchable digital edition of 240,000 primary sources about eighteenth-century London (1690-1800). The project focuses on plebeian Londoners and provides access to 3.35 million names from eight London archives, supplemented by fifteen datasets from other projects. The major update includes a complete technical infrastructure rebuild, mobile-responsive redesign, introduction of a macroscope visualization tool, improved browse functions, revised background pages, and corrections to markup and image links.
- Institution: University of Sheffield, Digital Humanities Institute
- Status: Active (major update released November 2025)
- Type: Digital archive, searchable database
- Coverage: 240,000 digitized primary sources, 3.35 million names
- Time Period: 1690-1800 (18th-century London)
- Topics: Crime, poverty, illness, apprenticeship, work, voting, daily life
- Project URL: https://www.londonlives.org/
- Team Credits: Jamie McLaughlin (software engineer), Sharon Howard (Data Manager), Mary Clayton (proofreader), Nick Phipps (web designer)