Creating the Charles Booth Online Archive: from nineteenth century London poverty to twenty‐first century digital riches

Abstract

The Charles Booth Online Archive from the library of the London School of Economics gives free access to materials from Booth’s survey into life and labour in London 1886‐1903. The content of the archive is described and the funding arrangements for the project outlined. Cataloguing and text digitisation arrangements are discussed and the method digitising the 12 maps from the survey explained. Details are presented of how the Web‐site was created.

Citation

Shaw, C. (2001), "Creating the Charles Booth Online Archive: from nineteenth century London poverty to twenty‐first century digital riches", Library Review, Vol. 50 No. 5, pp. 225-230. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242530110394475