Project funding
The London Topographical Society regularly assists organisations with financial grants for London-related historical projects with a topographical focus. Recent examples are:
2009: The first annual grant of £10,000 to the British Museum in connection with cataloguing their Crace Collection views of London.
2010: The second annual grant of £10,000 to the British Museum in connection with cataloguing their Crace Collection views.
2011: The third annual grant of £10,000 to the British Museum in connection with cataloguing their Crace Collection views.
2012: The fourth and final annual grant of £10,000 to the British Museum in connection with cataloguing their Crace Collection views; and
- The first of three grants of £11,000 to the British Library for doing the same thing to their Crace Collection London maps.
- A grant of £880 was made to the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) to conserve a photographic collection of London.
2013: The second of three grants of £11,000 to the British Library in connection with cataloguing their Crace Collection maps.
2014: The final of three grants for £11,000 to the British Library in connection with cataloguing their Crace Collection maps.
2015: £11,356 to the Guildhall Library for conservation work on the library’s Tallis Collection; and
- £10,000 to the British Film Institute (BFI), the first of three annual grants, for the digitisation and cataloguing of short historical films about London.
2016: The second annual grant of £10,000 to the BFI; and
- £1756 to the London Metropolitan Archive (LMA) for assistance in conserving their Visscher 1616 Panorama.
2017: The final of three grants of £10,000 to the BFI.
2018: £8,000 was paid to the Historic Towns Trust towards their publication of Map of Tudor London 1520.
2019: A grant of £1,472 to the London Metropolitan Archive (LMA) for conservation of the MacDonald drawings: and
- We also spent £8,234 on our own project – building this website – to provide an expansive educational database of London history for our members, students, researchers and the general public.
2020: A grant of £500 to the Survey of London for the digitisation of first-edition Ordnance Survey maps of Whitechapel to be used in the Survey’s two Whitechapel volumes (54 and 55 in the series).
2023: A grant of £15,430 to Sheffield University’s Digital Humanities Institute towards the technical and historical updating of the Locating London’s Past website.
2024: A grant of £2,500 to IG Doolittle to help with the cost of typing up the last of the Fire Court decrees.