London Bridge VR Bibliography

Primary Documents Regarding London Bridge:

PROB 11/415/299: Will of Robert Clarke, Apothecary of London. 1693. The National Archives, Kew, London.

PROB 11/349/195: Will of John Ducy of London Bridge, City of London. 1675. The National Archives, Kew, London.

PROB 11/436/375: Will of Thomas Nicholas, Warden of London Bridge. 1697. The National Archives, Kew, London.

PROB 11/137/ 520: Will of William Dussin, late Servant of London Bridge. 1621. The National Archives, Kew, London.

PROB 11/740/361: Will of William Johnson, Spectacle Maker of London Bridge. 1745. The National Archives, Kew, London.

Secondary Documents Regarding London Bridge:

Gerhold, Dorian. London Bridge and its Houses, c.1209-1761. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2021.

Latham, Mark. “From Oligarchy to a ‘Rate Payer’s Democracy’: The Evolution of the Corporation of London, 1680s–1750s.” Urban History 39, no. 2 (2012): 225–45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26398136.

Thompson, Richard. Chronicles of London Bridge, by an Antiquary. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1827

Tomory, Leslie. “Water Technology in Eighteenth-Century London: The London Bridge Waterworks.” Urban History 42, no. 3 (2015): 381–404. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26398616.

“London Bridge.” The Illustrated Magazine of Art 3, no. 17 (1854): 326–28. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20538310.

Additional Primary Documents:

"Charles II, 1666: An Act for rebuilding the Citty of London.," in Statutes of the Realm: Volume 5, 1628-80, ed. John Raithby (s.l: Great Britain Record Commission, 1819), 603-612. British History Online, accessed January 16, 2022, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol5/pp603-612.

"Charles II, 1670: An Additionall, Act for the rebuilding of the Citty of London, uniteing of Parishes and rebuilding of the Cathedrall and Parochiall Churches within the said City.," in Statutes of the Realm: Volume 5, 1628-80, ed. John Raithby (s.l: Great Britain Record Commission, 1819), 665-682. British History Online, accessed January 16, 2022, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol5/pp665-682.

"Morgan's Map of the Whole of London in 1682 ," in Morgan's Map of the Whole of London in 1682, ([s.l.]: [s.n.], 1682), British History Online, accessed January 12, 2022, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-map-morgan/1682/map.

Additional Secondary Documents:

Bowen, A. J. “The Tidal Régime of the River Thames; Long-Term Trends and Their Possible Causes.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences 272, no. 1221 (1972): 187–99. http://www.jstor.org/stable/74029.

Celoria, Francis. “A Preliminary Survey of London Folklore.” Journal of the Folklore Institute 2, no. 3 (1965): 262–65. https://doi.org/10.2307/3814144.

Colson, Justin. “A Portrait of a Late Medieval London Pub: The Star Inn, Bridge Street.” In Medieval Londoners: Essays to Mark the Eightieth Birthday of Caroline M. Barron, edited by Elizabeth A. New and Christian Steer, 37–54. University of London Press, 2019. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc16qcm.11.

Flamstead. “A Correct Tide-Table, Shewing the True Times of the High-Waters at London-Bridge, to Every Day in the Year 1683. By Mr. Flamstead.” Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775) 13 (1683): 10–15. http://www.jstor.org/stable/102212.

Fletcher, Joseph. “Historical and Statistical Account of the Present System of Supplying the Metropolis with Water.” Journal of the Statistical Society of London 8, no. 2 (1845): 148–81. https://doi.org/10.2307/2337728.

“The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.” n.d. Franklinpapers.org. Accessed January 17, 2022. https://www.franklinpapers.org.

Hill, Christopher. Reformation to Industrial Revolution. New York: Pantheon, 1967.

Hill, Christopher. The World Turned Upside Down. London: Penguin, 1974

Hollis, Leo. London Rising: The Men who Made Modern London

Schwartz, Richard B. Daily Life in Johnson’s London. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983..

Shelley, Henry. Inns and Taverns of Old London.

Smith, Charles Roach. “ON THE ROMAN COINS DISCOVERED IN THE BED OF THE THAMES, NEAR LONDON BRIDGE, FROM 1834 to 1841.” The Numismatic Chronicle (1838-1842) 4 (1841): 147–68. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42686028.

Ward, Joseph P. “The Taming of the Thames: Reading the River in the Seventeenth Century.” Huntington Library Quarterly 71, no. 1 (2008): 55–75. https://doi.org/10.1525/hlq.2008.71.1.55.

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