This post was kindly written for us by Katie George, archivist of The Salters’ Company, with the help of the CMH’s very own Mark Merry. September sees another new update to the Records of London’s Livery Companies Online (ROLLCO) project, with the publication of...
This is the second of a two-part post on the recent update to the Records of London’s Livery Companies Online project. Check out Part I. Amongst the records of the Bowyers’ Company added to ROLLCO we find the clergyman and astronomer Thomas John Hussey, DD. He...
This post was written for us by the Centre for Metropolitan History’s Mark Merry. The numerous Livery Companies of the City of London have evolved from their medieval forbears. Originally established as craft guilds to regulate specific trades, the Companies...
