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Special references
Museums, historic buildings and documentation centres on urban history
(tel from abroad: 00 44)
- Number One
The Royal Crescent
Bath
BA1 2LT
428 126
(closed Mondays)
- Assembly Rooms
Bennett Street
Bath
461 111
- Pump Room
Abbey Churchyard
Bath
477 785
- Herschel’s House
19 New King Street
Bath
311 342
- Museum of the Building of Bath
The Vineyards, The Paragon.
Bath
333 895
(closed Mondays)
- Sally Lunn’s Kitchen Museum
North Parade Passage
Bath
461 634
- Victoria Art Gallery
Bridge Street
Bath
477 232
- Holburne Museum of Art
Great Pulteney Street
Bath
BA2 4DB
466 669
- Fashion Research Centre
4 The Circus
Bath
477 754
(by appointment)
- Jane Austen Centre
40 Gay Street
Bath
BA1 2NT
443 000
- Prior Park
Ralph Allen Drive
Bath
BA2 5AH
833 422
- The National Gallery of Scotland
The Mound
Edinburgh
EH2 2EL
624 6200
- The Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street
Edinburgh
EH1 IJF
225 7534
- The Georgian House
7 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh
EH2 4DR
225 2160
- Huntly House
142 Canongate, Royal Mile
Edinburgh
EH8 8DD
225 2424
- The People’s Story
Canongate Tolbooth
163 Canongate
Edinburgh
EH8 8DE
225 2424
(closed Sundays)
- The City Art Centre
2 Market Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1DE
529 3993
- St Cecilia’s Hall and the Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments
Niddry Street
Cowgate
Edinburgh
EH1 1LJ
650 2806
- The New Town Conservation Centre
13a Dundas Street
Edinbgh
EH3 6QG
557 52 22
- The Museum of London
150 London Wall
London
EC2Y RHN
7600 3699
- The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 5DN
7747 2885
- The British Museum
Great Russell Street
London
WC1B 3DG
7636 1555
- Dr. Johnson’s House
17 Gough Square
London
EC4A 3DE
7353 3745
- Buckingham Palace
The Mall
London
SW1A 1AA
7839 1377
(open August and September)
The Queen’s Gallery (temporary exhibitions)
- Somerset House
The Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
7845 4600
- Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
W1V 0DS
7300 8000
- Science Museum
Exhibition Road
London
SW7 2DD
7938 8080
- Sir John Soane’s Museum
13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London
WC2A 3BP
7405 2107
- Theatre Museum
Russell Street
London
WC2E 7PA
7836 7891
(closed Mondays)
- Spencer House
27 St James’s Place
London
SW1
7514 1964
(open Sundays)
- Geffrye Museum
Kingsland Road
E2 8AE
London
7739 9893
- Wesley’s House
49 City Road
EC1Y 1AU
London
7253 2262
- Foundling Museum
40 Brunswick Square
London
WC1N 1AZ
78 41 36 00
(by appointment)
- Fenton House
Windmill Hill
London
NW3 6RT
7435 3471
(closed Monday-Tuesday, and Winter)
- Fan Museum
12 Crooms Hill
Greenwich
SE10 8ER
7305 1441
- Bank of England Museum
Bartholomew Lane
EC2R 8AH
London
7601 5545
(closed Saturdays and Sundays)
- Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum
The Clove Building
4 Mag Street
London
SE1 2NQ
7378 0222
In addition, paintings of London cityscapes may be seen at:
- Goodwood House
Chichester
West Sussex
PO18 0XP
01243 755040
- Alnick Castle
Northumberland
NE66 1NQ
01665 510777
- Grimsthorpe Castle
Bourne
Lincs
PE10 0LZ
01778 591259
- Woburn Abbey
Bedford
Bedfordshire
MK43 0TP
01525 290666
- Belvoir Castle
Nr Grantham
Lincolnshire
NG32 1PD
01476 870262
and in the United States
(tel from abroad: 00 1)
- The Metropolitan Museum, New York
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York
NY 10028
212 650 2774
- The Frick Collection, New York
1 East 70th St
New York
212 288 0700
- The Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel St
New Haven
CT 06510
203 432 2800
CD-ROMS
- Georgian Cities / Les Villes en Grande-Bretagne au XVIIIe siècle, ed Cultures, Sociétés et Technologies de l’Information (Paris: Paris-Sorbonne, 2000).
- Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker, Economic Growth and Social Change in the Eighteenth-Century English Town. TLTP CDRom, Glasgow, 1998.
- The Eighteenth Century. Paris: EMME, 1996.
- Il Settecento: Guida multimediale alla storia della civiltà europea diretta da Umberto Eco. Milan: Opera, 1997.
- James Hutton, the Father of Modern Geology. Edinburgh: SCRAN, 1999.
Internet sites
- www.bl.uk: the British Library’s website
- www.csti.paris-sorbonne.fr: site of the developers of the present website (Centre Cultures, Sociétés et Technologies de l’Information’, Université de Paris-Sorbonne)
- www.e-enlightenment.com: The Electronic Enlightenment
- https://www.scienceandindustrymuseu...: site of the Science Museum, with a section on the18th c.
- www.sciencemuseum.org.uk: the website of the new gallery (2019) at the Science Museum in London, on London as a ‘science city 1550-1800’ (see Rose &Desborough in Bibliography).
- https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/...: a bibliography on Hogarth, with links to Hogarth sites
- www.agreatread.co.uk: website of Pitkin Unichrome, photos of British cities
- www.hyperion-records.co.uk: 18th century music
- www.bath.ac.uk: Computer Models of Georgian Cities made by the Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture of the University of Bath
- www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk: views of historic buildingsand museums of Bath, texts about Georgian society and culture
- www.fashionmuseum.co.uk: site of the Museum of Costume at the Assembly Rooms at Bath
- www.victoriagal.org.uk: site of the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, with a section on Bath in art
- www.nms.ac.uk: site of the Museum of Scotland (Scottish History and Culture)
- www.nls.uk: the website of the 2019-20 ‘Scottish Enlightenment’ exhibition at the National Library of Scotland with chapters such as ‘Philosophy and Religion’, ‘Society and Sociability’ ... and a ‘Learning Resource’ with extra documents.
- www.scran.ac.uk: site of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
- www.museumoflondon.org.uk: site of the Museum of London
- www.somerset-house.org.uk: the site of Somerset House (its architecture, section on Somerset House in painting)
- www.digitens.eu: website of the DIGIT.EN.S Encyclopedia (Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability)
- www.litencyc.com: the Literary Encyclopedia (LE)
- no1royalcrescent.org.uk: website of Number One, Royal Crescent in Bath
- www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/georgian-house: website of the Georgian House in Edinburgh