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Bishopsgate Institute

The Bishopsgate Institute was opened in 1895 using funds from charitable endowments made to the parish of St Botolph’s, Bishopsgate over 500 years, under a scheme agreed by the Charity Commissioners in 1891. The archives were initially assembled by the Institute’s first librarian, Charles Frederick Goss, but have been added to since and now consist of a variety of personal, organisational and other collections covering the history of co-operation, secularism and freethought, political and social history and the social, topographical and cultural history of London, particularly the East End, ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The Library still seeks to collect archival material in these areas.

The archives collections of the Bishopsgate Institute are particularly strong in the history of co-operation, secularism and freethought, political and social history and the social, topographical and cultural history of London, particularly the East End. The collections roughly cover from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

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Address: Stefan Dickers, Archivist
Bishopsgate Foundation and Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London
EC2M 4QH

Email: library@bishopsgate.org.uk Web: www.bishopsgate.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=1004

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