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London Metropolitan Archives

SMALL COLLECTIONS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/270

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SMALL COLLECTIONS

Date(s): 1256-2004

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 280 production units.

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

There is no unifying factor to these papers (e.g. that they relate to property owned by one estate or family or the legal work of one office), they were simply collected or preserved for their antiquarian interest before being passed to the archive.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This collection comprises a variety of unrelated items listed under the fonds 'Small Collections' for convenience. The items include: research notes, transcripts, treatises, reports, surveys, drawings, annals, chronicles, calendars, translations, newspaper cuttings, sermons, scrapbooks, books of hours and gospels, warrants, bills, accounts, sales catalogues, recipes, ships' manifests and lists. Most of the items relate to the history of the City of London or greater London, with subjects including hospitals, shops, churches, street layout, legal matters, government and Mayors, livery companies, markets, the residents of the city, inns and taverns, armorial bearings, law and order, parks, armed forces and war, taxation, monarchs, fires, the river Thames, food, medicine, topography and monumental inscriptions.

Please note that due to the age and fragility of some of the items access may be restricted. Please consult the catalogue entry for individual items for more information.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records have been arranged according to their manuscript number, previously assigned as part of cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited at various dates in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antiquaries | Historians | Social scientists
Books of Hours | Religious texts | Religious doctrines | Theology
Chronicles | Manuscripts | Documents | Information sources
Historic buildings | Historic properties | Immovable cultural property | Cultural property | Cultural heritage
Historic cities | Urban areas
Historic interest | Cultural interest
Historical research | History
Local history | History
Scrapbooks | Albums (documents) | Books | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences

Personal names

Corporate names
Corporation of London x City of London

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe