In the Eighteenth Century 'Grub Street' inward London became the habitation to a concentration of impoverished writers, aspiring poets together with low-brow publishers & booksellers. The literary occupants of Grub Street tended to locomote at the margins of London's journalistic together with literary scene. Hence 'working inward Grub Street' has cash inward one's chips a pejorative phrase used against writers or 'hacks' who locomote for hire together with are prepared to prostitute their fine art for profit.
The Grub Street Project is attempting to document together with map London's literary together with publishing scene inward the 17th & 18th Centuries. As occupation of this projection it has created a issue of interactive vintage maps of London. These maps are hence existence used to present the locations of import to London's emerging publishing & literary scenes together with their associated trades.
So far the Grub Street Project has created a issue of interactive versions of master 18th Century maps. At the 2nd Strype's 1720 Plan of the City of London, Westminster & Southwark is the exclusively map which contains a issue of layers which tin locomote overlaid on the map. Strype's 1720 map includes layers showing the locations of java houses, taverns & inns together with a house index providing information almost London's 18th century roads together with streets.
Locating London's Past is roughly other superb tool for exploring Eighteenth Century London life. The site uses John Rocque’s 1746 map of London equally the footing for exploring many aspects of London life during the Seventeenth together with Eighteenth Century.
The information sets that tin locomote viewed on the map include records of Old Bailey Proceedings, coroner's records, historical directories, plague deaths, archeology finds together with much more. The interactive map includes the option to switch betwixt Roque's 1746 map together with Google's modern map of London.
