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About London Metropolitan Archives
- 2021 Distance enquiry survey
- Access to unfit documents
- Accredited archive service
- Acquisitions
- Africa Centre archives cataloguing project
- Appraisal policy
- Archive apprentice’s experiences
- Archive box making
- Archive preservation and conservation policy
- Bridging the Digital Gap
- Citation guidelines for LMA documents
- Collections access policy
- Collections acquisition and management policy
- Conservation
- Conservation in Action: A Foundling Hospital Prescriptions Book
- Conservation in Action: Consistory Court of London volumes
- Conservation in Action: Hanging Seals
- Conservation in Action: Plastic Architect’s Plans
- Conservation in action: Conserving mouldy documents
- Conservation in action: Glazing in conservation framing for exhibition
- Conservation in action: Mapping and imaging smallpox in London, 1870-1910
- Conservation in action: repairing a fire-damaged Irish Society memorandum book
- Copying policy
- Coram volunteering
- Culture& traineeship
- Disability history conference
- Distance Survey 2019
- Due Diligence policy
- Engagement and learning policy
- Enquiry service
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan 2021-22
- Exhibition and display loans policy
- Going digital with the LMA book group
- Green policy
- Guide to records accepted by LMA
- Haringey Vanguard project
- Image Detectives - Vauxhall Firenza
- Image detectives
- Internet acceptable use policy
- Internship policy
- LGBTQ+ conference 2021
- LMA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy
- LMA Mission Statement
- LMA Policies
- LMA Public task statement
- LMA history and organisation
- Layers of London project
- Letters from Lockdown
- London Under Ground exhibition
- Magnificent Maps of London exhibition
- New director for LMA
- Paid Document Research Service
- Pensions archive trust collections policy
- Positive history
- Public task statement
- RCS partnership
- Roma stories oral history project
- Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults policy
- Smallpox patient Harry Vesey
- Sounds from home
- Statement of LMA values
- Sustainable preservation
- Switching the Lens project
- Unlocking Our Sound Heritage
- Unorthodox and Out Loud
- Victorian London in Photographs
- Volunteer policy
- Volunteering
London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) holds records and archives relating to the history of London. We originate from a variety of different organisations including the City of London Corporation, the former Greater London Council (GLC) and its predecesor organisations including the London County Council (LCC), the Middlesex County Council (MCC).
In combination, the archives form a picture of the history of London and its surroundings for almost 1000 years. Read on to find out more about what we do, the collections we hold and how you can use them to discover your London history
The London Picture Archive
Discover the London you know, and the London you've never seen...
Explore over 250,000 images of London from the collections of London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Art Gallery