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London Topographical Record

The London Topographical Record is a hardback book published at intervals of about five years and contains scholarly articles on all aspects of London's history and topography. It also documents the Society's activities, provides detailed information about all publications from the Society's formation in 1880, publishes obituaries of prominent members, and provides a full membership list.

    London Topographical Record vol. 29. 236 pages, 59 maps and illustrations (12 in colour). Publication no 165 (2006). £35. Contains papers on:

  • The Prosecution of the Earl of Bedford
  • London in Miniature — Medallic Panoramas of London 1633-1795
  • The London Topography of the Parliamentary Elite: Addresses for Peers and Bishops for 1706 and 1727-8
  • The Beake House Revealed: The History of a Dutch Merchant's House, 32 Botolph Lane, London
  • ‘Silly Prejudices’, ‘Peevish Obstinacy’, and ‘Knavery’: A Survey of Marylebone in 1738
  • Archbishop Tenison’s Library in St Martin’s-in-the-Fields: The Building and its History
  • Fire at Providence Chapel, Little Titchfield Street, in 1810
  • A German Intelligence Map of London of 1944
  • Peter Jackson: an Obituary
  • Cecil Farthing: an Obituary
  • London Topographical Record vol. 28. 255 pages, 30 maps and illustrations (8 in colour). Publication no 157 (2001). £35. Contains papers on:

  • St Paul's and its Architecture
  • Before and after Drury House: Development of a Suburban Town House 1250-1800
  • The First Printed 'Directory' of British Politicians
  • Oxford Street Two Hundred Years Ago: the Portland Estate Block Plans c1805-1870
  • Amateurs, Antiquaries and Tradesmen: a Context for Photographic History in London
  • The Photographic Studios of Regent Steet 1850-1875
  • London Diarists
  • Maps, Prints, Presses and the Merchant Taylors in the Seventeenth Century
  • Hyde Park Corner: Breaking a Nineteenth-Century Bottleneck
  • St Paul's in Wartime
  • Felix Barker: an obituary

    London Topographical Record vol. 27. 367 pages, 87 maps and illustrations. Publication no 149 (1995). £35. Contains papers on:

  • The Beginnings of an Early Victorian Suburb
  • St John's Wood: the Eyre Estate before 1830
  • Mountjoy's Inn, Fenchurch Street
  • A Glimpse of the Earliest Map-View of London?
  • Ralph Treswell's Association with St Bartholomew's Hospital
  • Frederick Crace's Plans, Elevations and Sections of the Churches of London
  • Church of St Michael Cornhill
  • Hartshorn Lane and Angel Court, c1614-c1720
  • Charles Dingley and his Limehouse Sawmill
  • Angel Court and its Development to 1985
  • Building Development in Mile End Old Town, 1660-1820
  • The Secret Map of the County of London, 1926
  • Forbes House, Halkin Street
  • The Role of a Topographical Society

    London Topographical Record vol. 26. 369 pages, 40 maps and illustrations. Publication no 141 (1990). £20. Contains papers on:

  • The Topography of St Paul's Precinct 1200-1500
  • Four Plans of Southwark in the Time of Stow
  • Whitehall Palace and King Street, Westminster
  • Moorfields, Finsbury and the City of London in the Sixteenth Century
  • The Broadway Chapel, Westminster: a Forgotten Exemplar
  • Some Notes on Hollar's Prospect of London and Westminster Taken from Lambeth
  • Guidebooks to London before 1800: a Survey
  • Sources for London History at the India Office Library and Records
  • London illustrations in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1746-1863
  • Richard Horwood's Plan of London: a Guide to Editions and Variants, 1792-1819
  • The Museum in Docklands
  • Centre for Metropolitan History
  • Obituaries and Bibliographies of William Francis Grimes, Philip David Whitting and Priscilla Metcalf

    London Topographical Record vol. 25. 220 pages, 38 maps and illustrations. Publication no 132 (1985). £12. Contains papers on:

  • Restructuring London before the Great Fire
  • Medieval Houses in Cripplegate and Bishopsgate
  • The Reconstruction of Winchester House, Southwark
  • John Norden's Survey of the Manor of Kennington, 1616
  • Five Seventeen Century Plans of the Tower of London
  • The Survey of Hatton Garden in 1694 by Abraham Arlidge
  • Handel's House, a History of 25 Brook Street Mayfair
  • The 1785-88 Survey of the Manor of Kennington
  • William Marlow's Painting of the Ruins of the Pantheon
  • The Architectural Work of George Smith in Greenwich and Blackheath
  • George Shepherd, a Double Career?
  • St Paul's Cathedral Repairs, the Propaganda of Henry Farley

    London Topographical Record vol. 24 (centenary volume). 256 pages, 42 maps and illustrations. Publication no 123 (1980). £12. Contains papers on:

  • The London Topographical society, a Brief account
  • The Two Coldharbours of the City of London
  • The Medieval Parish Church of St Andrew Holborn
  • Clothworkers in St Stephen Coleman Parish, 1612
  • The Queen's Birthplace
  • Nos 54-64 Strand
  • A Site in Westminster or Whoever was St Ermine?
  • St Dionis Backchurch, Victorian Proposals
  • Parliament and the Railways of London in 1863
  • From Carey Street to the Embankment - and Back Again!
  • A Museum for London
  • Marjorie Blanche Honeybourne, an Obituary
  • A London Panorama c 1800 Resurrected
  • Social and Economic Study of Medieval London

    London Topographical Record vol. 23. 190 pages, 26 maps and illustrations. Publication no 115 (1972). £12. Contains papers on:

  • The College of St Martin-le-Grand and the Anarchy, 1135-54
  • Whittington's Longhouse; Four Fifteen Century London Plans
  • John Stow 1525-1605
  • Sir John Petre and some Elizabethan London Tradesmen
  • Wenceslas Hollar in Perspective
  • Some Designs for St Marylebone Church with Notes on the Chapels of the District
  • The Grand Architectural Panorama of London 1849
  • The Lowther Arcade in the Strand

    London Topographical Record vol. 22. 228 pages, 10 maps and illustrations. Publication no 102 (1965). £12. Contains papers on:

  • John Norden's View of London, 1600
  • The Place-names Ken Wood and Kentish Town
  • The Reconstructed map of London under Richard II
  • The Ownership and Development of Fifteen Acres at Kensington Gravel Pits
  • Obituary and Bibliography of Walter Hindes Godfrey 1881-1961
  • Indexes to volumes I-XXI

    London Topographical Record vol. 14. 112 pages, 13 maps and illustrations. Publication no 57 (1928). £12. Contains papers on:

  • The Fortifications of London in 1642/3
  • The King's Head Tavern, Leadenhall Street
  • Disappearing London, Regent Street
  • Rosamond Ponds and the Reservoir in Green Park
  • The Works of C L Kingsford in London History and Topography

Orders by post should be sent directly to the Society at Flat 13, 13 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK.

Postage and packing is extra. The postage for UK is the greater of £3 and 20% of the total of your order before deducting any discount. The postage for abroad is the greater of £4 and 25% of the total of your order before deducting any discount. Members' discount applies to the cost of publications only; not to the combined price of publications and postage.

Example: the Rhinebeck panorama for which the public price is £20. Everyone pays £4 postage (20% of £20). Total price for non-members is £24 (£20 list price plus £4 postage). Total price for members is £19 (£15 for publication thanks to members' 25% discount - and the same £4 postage).

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