The London Encyclopaedia, first published in 1983,^[1] is a 1,100-page historical reference work^[2] onLondon, the capital city of theUnited Kingdom, covering the whole of theGreater London area.

The first edition of the encyclopaedia was compiled over a number of years by the antiquarian booksellerBen Weinreb^[3] and the historianChristopher Hibbert. Revised editions were published in 1993, 1995 and 2008.^[1] It has around 5,000 articles, supported by two indices, one general and one listing people, each with about 10,000 entries, and is published byMacmillan.

In 2012, anapp was developed by Heuristic-Media and released asLondon—A City Through Time.^[1][2] Toby Evetts and Simon Reeves, partners in Heuristic-Media, discussed the development of the app withThe Guardian in 2013, describing how 4,500 entries had to be plotted onto a guide map by hand.^[3]

The encyclopaedia builds on a number of earlier publications,^[4] including:

• Survey of London byJohn Stow, 1598.
• The Survey of London — a multi-volume publication originated in 1894 byCharles Robert Ashbee, adopted first by theLondon County Council, then theGreater London Council, and now domiciled withEnglish Heritage.
• Handbook for London byPeter Cunningham, 1849.
• London Past and Present byWheatley and Peter Cunningham, 1891.

• The Encyclopaedia of Oxford – also edited by Christopher Hibbert
• A London Encyclopaedia – a general encyclopaedia published in London in 1829

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• The Survey of London atBritish History Online

• 1983 non-fiction books
• 1995 non-fiction books
• 2008 non-fiction books
• British encyclopedias
• Encyclopedias of history
• History books about London
• 20th-century encyclopedias
• 21st-century encyclopedias

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