THE earliest historical resources for London reveal considerable evidence of the medieval city before the progressive rebuilding after the fire of 1666. For Wyngaerde's panorama of 1543 and the Agas map of the 1560s, P. Glanville, London in Maps (1972). The major edition of John Stow's A Survey of London of 1603 is by C. L. Kingsford, (2 vols., 1908). For the engravings by Hollar of the 1630s, A. M. Hind, Wenceslaus Hollar and His Views of London (1922). H. T. Riley (ed.), Memorials of London Life in the XIII, XIV, and XV Centuries: 1276–1419 (1868), includes many extracts from the extensive city records, subsequently summarised by P. E. Jones and R. Smith, A Guide to the Records in the Corporation of London Records Office and the Guildhall Library Muniment Room (1981).

Extensive research on London houses has been published by John Schofield in The Building of London from the Conquest to the Great Fire (1984) and his well-illustrated and detailed Medieval London Houses (1995). See also C. Thomas, The Archaeology of Medieval London (2002); and C. Barron, London in the Later Middle Ages (2004). Valuable earlier studies include E. Beresford Chancellor, The Private Palaces of London (1908), C. L. Kingsford, ‘Historical notes on medieval London houses’, London Record Society 10 (1916) 14–144; 11 (1917) 28–81; 12 (1920) 1–66, and his reports in Archaeologia 71 (1921) 17–54; 72 (1922) 243–77; 73 (1923) 1–54; 74 (1924) 137–58. There are also the volumes of the Survey of London (1900 and ongoing); RCHM, London (5 vols., 1924–30); and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London, 2nd edn, 6 vols. (1998 – in progress).