The Survey of London Whitechapel Iniative is an interactive map website documenting the history of the London parish of Whitechapel.
Founded in 1894 by the Arts and Crafts architect C. R. Ashbee as a small volunteer project, and initiated with studies of parts of East London, the Survey of London has evolved into a detailed area-by-area chronicle of urban development, encompassing buildings of all types and periods.
In 2016, an in-depth study of Whitechapel was launched. Whitechapel is the inner fulcrum of London’s East End, a district with a long and rich history, currently in the throes of intense change. In an exciting departure and a return to the Survey’s founding ethos that has been made possible by a major grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (reference AH/N00146X/1) and the involvement of the Bartlett Faculty’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, the Survey’s exploration of Whitechapel’s history is being rooted in this collaborative map-based website.
Research Associate. Website design, UX, and code.
CC BY-NC 4.0 Duncan Hay, 2024.