ABSTRACT
London history is a vast and varied subject. Source material is kept in a wide range of libraries, record offices and other institutions all over the city and beyond, often leaving newcomers confused by its dispersal and its quantity. London section of British Archives describes the contents of the city’s varied repositories, though of course not all are relevant to the London historian. Addresses, telephone numbers, staff names, opening hours and facilities are all noted, as is the existence of any published guide to the collection. Each of the thirty-two London boroughs has its own local studies and archives department, open to the public. A radical reorganisation of London government in 1965 redrew the borough boundaries so that most of the ‘new’ Greater London Council boroughs took over two or three of the smaller London County Council boroughs.
