Middlesex Archives and Libraries

England Middlesex  Archives and Libraries

Barnet Local Studies Centre
Barnet Local Studies Centre The Burroughs Hendon London NW4 4BQ UK Telephone: 020 8359 3960 Email: [mailto:library.archives@barnet.gov.uk library.archives@barnet.gov.uk] Website: Barnet Local Studies Centre


 * Do you want to know more about the history of the London Borough of Barnet or trace your family history? We have a unique collection of historical documents dating from 1600 and a range of records in different formats, such as photographs, maps, archives, newspapers and publications representing people, places and buildings.

Brent Archives
Brent Archives The Library at Willesden Green 95 High Road Willesden, London NW10 2SF UK Telephone: 020 8937 3600 Email: [mailto:museum.archives@brent.gov.uk museum.archives@brent.gov.uk] Website: Brent Archives


 * The wide variety of material available at Brent Archives covers not only the history of Wembley and Willesden, but also the history of the local areas within them including Alperton, Brondesbury, Chalkhill, Cricklewood, Dollis Hill, Harlesden, Kensal Green, Kenton, Kilburn, Kingsbury, Neasden, Park Royal, Preston, Queen’s Park, Stonebridge, Sudbury, Tokyngton, Uxendon and Willesden Green.

Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre
Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre Holborn Library 32-38 Theobalds Road London WC1X 8PA UK Telephone: 020 7974 6342 Email: [mailto:localstudies@camden.gov.uk localstudies@camden.gov.uk] Website: Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre


 * Books, periodicals, newspapers, maps, illustrations, archives and other items about the Borough past and present, and family history. Parish vestry and Council records 17th to 20th centuries, including valuation lists until 1989. Archives of local organisations and individuals, including Highgate Cemetery registers. Consultation of archives is by prior appointment.

City of Westminster Archives Centre
City of Westminster Archives Centre 10 St Ann's Street London, England SW1P 2DE UK Telephone: 020 76415180 Email: [mailto:archives@westminster.gov.uk archives@westminster.gov.uk] Website: City of Westminster Archives Centre


 * At our Archives, view books, directories, maps, newspapers, images, local government records, electoral and parish registers, census returns and more relating to family, local and business history.

Ealing Local History Centre
Ealing Local History Centre Central Library 103 Ealing Broadway Centre The Broadway London, England W5 5JY UK Telephone: 020 3700 1055 Email: [mailto:ealing.localhistory@carillionservices.co.uk ealing.localhistory@carillionservices.co.uk] Website: Ealing Local History Centre


 * Based in Ealing Central Library, the Local History Centre is the archive of the London Borough of Ealing. Our focus is on making Ealing’s past more readily available and understandable to people in the present.  We assist researchers of all kinds and hold over 45,000 archival items and 20,000 photographs, plus many books and microfilms to help you learn about the rich and forgotten history of the borough.

London Metropolitan Archives
London Metropolitan Archives 40 Northampton Road City of London EC1R 0HB UK Telephone: 020 7332 3820 E-mail: [mailto:ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk] Website: London Metropolitan Archives


 * We are home to an amazing range of documents, images, maps, films and books about London. London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is free to use and open to everyone.  Whether you're tracing your family history or researching the history of your neighbourhood, if you're interested in London or Londoners, LMA is the place to visit!

Middlesex Library London
Middlesex Library London Middlesex University Hendon campus The Burroughs London, England NW4 4BT Telephone: 020 8411 5000 (main switchboard) Email: [mailto:info@mdx.ac info@mdx.ac] Website: Middlesex Library London


 * Middlesex provides extensive, flexible library services that can be accessed on-campus, or wherever you are in the world. The Sheppard Library houses an enormous collection of hard copy resources, and the vast majority of our 30,000 full text journals are available online.

Brent Museum
Brent Museum The Library at Willesden Green 95 High Road Willesden, London NW10 2SF UK Telephone: 020 8937 3600 Email: [mailto:museum.archives@brent.gov.uk museum.archives@brent.gov.uk] Website: Brent Museum


 * Brent Museum has been collecting material about the history of Brent for over 50 years and we have over 10,000 objects in our collection. We have items which are thousands of years old but we also collect from the people living and working in Brent today so that our collection represent all communities, past and present.

Ragged School Museum
Ragged School Museum 46-50 Copperfield Road London E3 4RR UK Telephone: 20 8980 6405 Email: [mailto:pauline@raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk pauline@raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk] Website: Ragged School Museum


 * The Ragged School Museum is housed in a group of three canalside buildings which once formed the largest “ragged” or free school in London. The museum was founded to make the history of the Ragged Schools and the broader social history of the Victorian East End accessible to all. Within the original buildings, an authentic Victorian Classroom has been set up where each year some 16,000 children experience a school lesson as it would have been taught more than 100 years ago.


 * We have also recreated a Victorian East End Kitchen from the 1900s, demonstrating what life would have been like in a simple, one-room home with no electricity or running water. The museum has several gallery areas, a reconstructed Victorian Classroom and a Victorian East End Kitchen displaying its own collection of historical objects, all designed for hands-on inspection. This is a museum where you can sit at the school desks, use the tin bath and experience what life was like for the Victorian poor of the East End of London.