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The British Library of Political and Economic Science has uploaded high-resolution photos of Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9', which can be freely downloaded and used in recounting the stories of your

We had a very busy March meeting in which Peter Hamersley presented two case studies demonstrating some thinking

Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the past twelve months, you will have heard that AI applications have become available to everyone.  The first big release came on 30 Nov 2022 when a company called Open AI released an application called ChatGPT.  Since then the world has been scrambling to catch up and many other applications

Thank you to everyone who attended our recent June meeting. We held a very successful Brick

LSEW Group Meeting March 2023

Thank you to all who attended our recent March meeting. We had a good attendance

Thank you to all who attended our recent December meeting. 

Robert Holloway gave a talk about his recently self-published family history book.

Addtiionally we had a brief look at the records available to download from The National Archives UK.

Using our recently updated London Guide, Peter Hamersley took us through some really useful resources to help us with our London research. 

These resources and more, are available to download from the County Guides section of this page.

Geoff Barber presented a really interesting talk on 17th Century tokens.  Geoff's presentation incuded a look at his own personal collection of these trading tokens, mostly associated with Sussex and Kent.