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Plan your visit to The London Archives
The London Archives is free to visit and everyone is welcome.
Our large, light study and research spaces provide a great environment for researching London's archives, or for your own personal study. There is plenty of table space and free Wi-Fi. Our exhibitions and displays are a great way to start exploring London's history and our events, workshops and sessions for schools will bring layers of excitement and interest to your journey into the past.
The majority of the archives in our collections can be accessed and used by anyone, free of charge. We'll quite literally put history into your hands, whether it's an eighteenth century map or a Victorian workhouse register. If you want to access original material from the archives during your visit, you will need to sign up for our History Card. You won't need this if you want to undertake personal study or visit our exhibitions and events.
New to The London Archives?
If you haven't visited The London Archives before, there are a few key things that it's useful to know. If you want to look at original documents and images from the archives you will need a History Card. You don’t need a History Card to visit our exhibitions and events or to research using our computers and library resources.
London's Borough Archives and local history centres
Continue your research in London's history
What we offer
While you're at The London Archives, you can access many of our services to help with your research.
Archive box making service
Order archive quality storage boxes
The London Archives offer a professional archive quality box making service
Copying services for documents and images
Requesting copies of items in the archive
Find out how to get digital or printed copies of items from our collections
Licensing collections
Publishing content from The London Archives
Work in partnership with The London Archives to publish documents and images.
Our services
Copying services, boxes, images and more
Find out about the services we offer at The London Archives, including scanning and copying, box making, image licensing and reproduction and more...