About Resources

This section provides brief descriptions of the main primary sources available to study the history of medieval London and Londoners, along with information about the chief archives holding medieval documentary material for London, as well as guides to the archaeology and maps of medieval London.

A very large selection of printed medieval documentary sources (including most volumes of the London Record Society) have been digitized on British History Online, at the Institute of Historical Research. Documentary Sources available there have been marked as BHO, with a link directly to the online version.  Also linked are primary sources available in searchable pdsfs at the Internet Archive (usually items published before 1923) or Haithi Trust.