''The London Encyclopaedia'', first published in 1983,
is a 1100-page historical reference work
on the United Kingdom's capital city,
London. The encyclopaedia covers the
Greater London
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area.
Development
The first edition of the encyclopaedia was compiled over a number of years by antiquarian bookseller
Ben Weinreb and by the historian
Christopher Hibbert
Christopher Hibbert MC (born Arthur Raymond Hibbert; 5 March 1924 – 21 December 2008) was an English author, historian and biographer. He has been called "a pearl of biographers" (''New Statesman'') and "probably the most widely-read popular ...
, and was revised in 1993, 1995, and 2008.
It has around 5,000 articles, supported by two indices—one general and one listing people, each of about 10,000 entries—and is published by
Macmillan
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People
* McMillan (surname)
* Clan MacMillan, a Highland Scottish clan
* Harold Macmillan, British statesman and politician
* James MacMillan, Scottish composer
* William Duncan MacMillan ...
.
In 2012, an
app
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Computing
* Application software
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* Adjusted Peak Performan ...
was developed by Heuristic-Media, and released as ''London—A City Through Time''.
Toby Evetts and Simon Reeves, partners in Heuristic-Media, discussed the development of the app with ''
The Guardian'' in 2013, describing how 4,500 entries had to be plotted onto a guide map by hand.
Antecedents
The encyclopaedia builds on a number of earlier publications,
including:
*''
Survey of London'' by
John Stow
John Stow (''also'' Stowe; 1524/25 – 5 April 1605) was an English historian and antiquarian. He wrote a series of chronicles of English history, published from 1565 onwards under such titles as ''The Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles'', ''The C ...
, 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
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, and now domiciled with
English Heritage.
*''Handbook for London'' by
Peter Cunningham, 1849.
*''
London Past and Present'' by
Wheatley Wheatley may refer to:
Places
* Wheatley (crater), on Venus
* Wheatley, Ontario, Canada
* Wheatley, Hampshire, England
* Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England
** Wheatley railway station
* Wheatley, South Yorkshire, England
* Wheatley, now Ben Rhydding, ...
and Peter Cunningham, 1891.
See also
* ''
The Encyclopaedia of Oxford'' – also edited by Christopher Hibbert
* ''
A London Encyclopaedia'' – a general encyclopaedia published in London in 1829
References
External links
''The Survey of London''at
British History Online
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1983 non-fiction books
1995 non-fiction books
2008 non-fiction books
British encyclopedias
Encyclopedias of history
History books about London
20th-century encyclopedias
21st-century encyclopedias