London Metropolitan Archives
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The London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) are the main archives of Greater London, and are run by the Corporation of London.
It is based at 40 Northampton Road, Clerkenwell, London, close to the Family Records Centre and the Society of Genealogists. It is the largest local authority record office in the country, with records covering 900 years. Most of its material comes from the old London County Council and from the old county of Middlesex. The LMA was known as the Greater London Record Office (GLRO) until the 1990s.
It holds the following type of records:
- Associations (from 1555)
- Businesses (from 1560)
- Charities (from 1377)
- Court records (from 1549)
- Diocesan records (from 1467)
- Families and individuals (from 1160)
- Health authorities and hospitals (from 1220)
- Jewish organisations (from 1591)
- Local authorities (from 1538)
- National records (from 1563)
- London Generations (parish records from 1538)
- Maps, plans, prints and photographs
In addition, most of the London boroughs run their own archives, and the Guildhall Library holds considerable quantities of archival material relating to the City of London. The former Corporation of London Record Office (CLRO), which held the administrative records of the Corporation, was recently merged with the LMA.
