The Charles Booth Online Archive is a searchable resource giving access to archive material from the Booth collections of the Archives Division of the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE Archives) and the Senate House Library.

The Booth collection at LSE Archives contains the original records from Booth's survey into life and labour in London, dating from 1886 to 1903. The archives of the Senate House Library contain Booth family papers from 1799 to 1967.

• Introduction and guides to the archives
• Poverty maps of London: Browse or Search
• Purchase the Poverty Maps of London
• Inquiry into life and labour in London
• Search the catalogue of original survey notebooks
• Browse the digitised police notebooks
• Browse the Stepney Union casebooks and Jewish notebooks
• Booth family papers
• Contacts

If you want to comment on the usefulness for your research of the Booth papers or this website, please do so via the LSE Archives new blog, Out of the Box. The blog contains information about the Archives generally, including news items relating to the Booth papers.

The Charles Booth Online Archive has been funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme