LWMFHS Archive

Record Offices, Archives and Local Studies

[London Metropolitan Archives] (LMA) covers much of Middlesex and inner London.

[The Guildhall Library] covers The City.

[Westminster Archives] covers Westminster (but Paddington and Marylebone Parish Registers are held at the LMA).

Various local archives and study centres have a wealth of other information.

Yet more information can be found at Local History Societies and Museums.

Please note: [LWMFHS] is not responsible for any of these sites or the information they contain.

Barnet Local Studies & Archives	Local studies and archives \| Barnet Council
Barnet Museum	Barnet Museum – Home
Brent Museum & Archives	Brent Museum and Archives \| Brent Council
Bishopsgate Institute	Special Collections and Archives \| Bishopsgate Institute
British Library	Visit us in London or Yorkshire and discover more – The British Library (bl.uk)
Camden Local Studies & Archives	Local Studies and Archives Centre – Camden Council
Commonwealth War Grave Commission	The Commonwealth War Graves Commission \| CWGC
Ealing Local History Centre	Local history centre \| Ealing Council
Enfield Local Studies & Archive	Home Page
Forty Hall Museum	Forty Hall Museum – Forty Hall (fortyhallestate.co.uk)
General Register Office	General Register Office (GRO) – Official information on births, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths
Guildhall Library	Guildhall Library – The Library of London History – City of London
Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives	Hampstead Garden Suburb – Archives (hgs.org.uk)
Burgh House & Hampstead Museum	Home \| Home page \| Burgh House
Haringey Archives & Local History	Visiting the Archive \| Bruce Castle
Harrow Local History Collection & Archive	Our Collections – Headstone Manor Museum
Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies \| Hertfordshire County Council
Hillingdon Museum & Archives	Hillingdon Museum and Archives Services – Hillingdon Council
Imperial War Museum	IWM Collections \| Imperial War Museums
Islington Local History Centre	Islington Council \| Islington Local History Centre
Islington Museum	Islington council: Islington Museum \| Islington Council
Lambeth Palace Library	Lambeth Palace Library – Bibliotheca Lambethana
London Metropolitan Archives	London Metropolitan Archives – City of London
London Museums of Health & Medicine	Medical Museums
London Transport Museum	Search our collection \| London Transport Museum (ltmuseum.co.uk)
Museum of London	Museum of London Docklands \| Free museum in London
Potters Bar Museum	Home page – Potters Bar Museum %
Probate Records Search	Search probate records for documents and wills (England and Wales) – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
RAF Museum Collection	Collections – RAF Museum Collections
Register Office Locations	Find a register office – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Society of Genealogists Collection	Our Collections (sog.org.uk)
The National Archives	The National Archives
Westminster Archives	Westminster Archives \| Westminster City Council

Societies & Organisations

Barnet Society	News Archive \| Barnet Society
Camden History Society	Camden History Society
City of London Archaeological Society	About us – City of London Archaeological Society (colas.org.uk)
Collage of Arms	College of Arms – College of Arms (college-of-arms.gov.uk)
East of London Family History Society	The East of London Family History Society (eolfhs.org.uk)
East Surrey Family History Society	East Surrey FHS – Home
Enfield Society	The Enfield Society – Conserving our heritage and environment
Edmonton Hundred Historical Society	Home (edmontonhundred.org.uk)
Essex Family History Society	Essex Society for Family History (esfh.org.uk)
Family History Federation	Family History Federation
Friends of the City Churches	The Friends of the City Churches (london-city-churches.org.uk)
Friern Barnet & District Local History Society	Home \| Friern Barnet & District Local History Society (friern-barnethistory.org.uk)
Guild of One Name Studies	Guild of One-Name Studies – One-name studies, Genealogy
Harefield History Society	Harefield History Society
Hendon & District Archaeological Society	HADAS – HADAS
Heraldry Society	The Heraldry Society
Hertfordshire Family History Society	Herts FHS
Highgate Cemetery	Visit – Highgate Cemetery
Hillingdon Family History Society	Home \| Hillingdon FHS (hfhs.org.uk)
Hornsey Historical Society	Hornsey Historical Society Homepage – Hornsey Historical Society
Islington Archaeology and History Society	Islington Archaeology & History Society (islingtonhistory.org.uk)
Kensal Green Cemetery	The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery
London & Middlesex Archaeological Society	Home (lamas.org.uk)
Middlesex Heraldry Society	Middlesex Heraldry Society (middlesex-heraldry.org.uk)
Mill Hill History Society	Mill Hill Historical Society Website (millhill-hs.org.uk)
North West Kent Family History Society	North West Kent Family History Society (nwkfhs.org.uk)
The Ogilby Muster (Online Military Archive)	The Ogilby Muster
Pinner Local History Society	Pinner Local History Society – Pinner Local History Society (pinnerlhs.org.uk)
Potters Bar & District Historical Society	Potters Bar and District Historical Society (pottersbarhistory.uk)
Ruislip, Northwood & Eastcote Local History Society	Ruislip Northwood and Eastcote Local History Socie – Home (chessck.co.uk)
Society of Genealogists	Home Page (sog.org.uk)
Waltham Forest Family History Society	WFFHS: Waltham Forest Family History Society: Home
West Middlesex Family History Society	WMFHS – Home Page (west-middlesex-fhs.org.uk)
West Surrey Family History Society	West Surrey FHS (wsfhs.co.uk)
Woolwich & District Family History Society	Woolwich FHS

Other useful links

GENUKI: Home page
Welcome to Cyndi’s List (cyndislist.com)
Some notes on medieval English genealogy (medievalgenealogy.org.uk)
Tracing Your Family Tree (exploregenealogy.co.uk)
FreeBMD Home Page
Search Historical Records • FamilySearch
RootsWeb.com Home Page
Ellis Island \| Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
British History Online \| The core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles (british-history.ac.uk)
UKBMD – Births, Marriages, Deaths Indexes & Census Transcriptions Online for UK Family History and Genealogy
The Gazette \| Official Public Record
Old Bailey Online – The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 – Central Criminal Court
Cemetery Records Online – Interment.net
CCEd \| Clergy of the Church of England Database (theclergydatabase.org.uk)
Genealogy UK and Family History (londonancestor.com)
Home \| Search the archive \| British Newspaper Archive
About \| FreeREG
About \| FreeCEN
Family History – Royal Navy and Naval History.Net (naval-history.net)
Roll of Honour – Middlesex – War Memorial Selection (roll-of-honour.com)
Roll of Honour – London – War Memorial Selection (roll-of-honour.com)
Family Deeds – A Family History Website
London Lives 1690 to 1800 ~ Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London
CemeteryScribes Jewish tombstone inscriptions, Find a grave Genealogy, Family History
Internet Archive: About IA
The Dictionary of Victorian London, by Lee Jackson, author
Exploring 20th c. London \| New contributions \| Community Archives and Heritage Group
The London Burial Grounds
AIM25 – Online research for archive collections of higher education institutions and learned societies within greater London
Explore the Diocese of London churches
London & Middlesex Genealogy M-Z (genealogylinks.net)
An Introduction to the Workhouse (workhouses.org.uk)
Deadpubs, taverns and tokens.
Tufts Digital Library
Home \| LOCATING LONDON’S PAST
Gazetteer of British Place Names
A Vision of Britain through Time \| Your national on-line library for local history \| Maps, Statistics, Travel Writing and more
Old Maps Online
National Library of Scotland – Map Images (nls.uk)
Reynolds’s Splendid New Map Of London – A London Inheritance
Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1878, With Geological Colouring. (london1878.com)
The Agas Map (uvic.ca)
Charles Booth’s London (lse.ac.uk)
New Popular Edition Maps – npemap.org.uk
Historical Maps (familysearch.org)
John Strype’s Survey of London Online (dhi.ac.uk)
MAPCO : London and Environs Maps and Views
photoLondon
Search The Archive – Francis Frith
Old Photographs by Footsteps – Main Index (footstepsphotos.co.uk)
UK Photo And Social History Archive (ukphotoarchive.org.uk)
About the Project \| Britain From Above