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London Metropolitan Archives, where the capital's past comes to life. These pages offer an insight into the extraordinary range of archives we hold, with practical advice on making the most of a visit to LMA and a database of our most popular genealogical sources. If you are interested in London or Londoners, LMA is the place to explore. Explore your family history using the London Generations database and our online research service. London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is the largest local authority record office in the United Kingdom. There are 32 miles of archives in our strong-rooms - an enormous amount of information about the capital and its people. The records cover a period of nearly 900 years. London government and the origins of LMA. Much of LMA's material comes from the former counties of London and Middlesex, as LMA houses the records of their administrative bodies. These include the Middlesex Sessions of the Peace, both administrative and judicial, dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. LMA also has records for the various bodies set up in the nineteenth century to manage London - the Metropolitan Water Board, the Metropolitan Buildings Office, the School Board for London and the Metropolitan Asylums Board. Our 100,000 volume library began life over 100 years ago with the Metropolitan Board of Works.