The London Encyclopaedia
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The London Encyclopaedia, first published in 1983 and revised in 1993 and 1995, is a 1007 page reference work on England's capital city, London, with some 5,000 articles supported by two indices - one general and one listing people, each of about 10,000 entries. The first edition of the encyclopaedia was complied over a fourteen year period by Ben Weinreb and latterly by Christopher Hibbert, and is published by Macmillan.
The encyclopaedia covers the Greater London area. It builds on a number of antecedent publications, including:
- Survey of London - John Stow, 1598
- The Survey of London - a multi-volume publication originated in 1894 by Charles Robert Ashbee, adopted first by the London County Council, then the Greater London Council, and now domiciled with English Heritage.
- Handbook for London - Cunningham 1849
- London Past & Present - Wheatley and Cunningham, 1891
Weinreb and Hibbert's encyclopaedia unarguably lives up to the back cover plaudit from the Illustrated London News, that "there is no one-volume book in print that carries so much valuable information on London and its history"
Reference
- The London Encyclopaedia; Ben Weinreb, Christopher Hibbert. Macmillan 1995. ISBN 0-333-57688-8
External links
- The Survey of London (http://accessibility.english-heritage.org.uk/default.asp?WCI=Node&WCE=7728) at English Heritage