People

• Charles Dickens on Wikipedia
• Charles Dickens Museum, Bloomsbury
• Charles Dickens Page
• Samuel Johnson on Wikipedia
• Dr Johnson's House
• Samuel Pepys on Wikipedia
• The Diary of Samuel Pepys - daily extracts, articles, etc
• Samuel Pepys Diary - extracts, articles, etc
• John Wesley on Wikipedia
• Christopher Wren on Wikipedia

Videos

• Christopher Wren: Extraordinary Genius - talk by Adrian Tinniswood for London Historians

Books

• Peter Ackroyd has written several London-related biographies, including: Blake (1995), Dickens (1990), The Life of Thomas More (1998), Shakespeare: The Biography (2004), Charlie Chaplin (2014)
• John Guy, Thomas Becket (Viking, 2012)
• John Stubbs, Donne: The Reformed Soul (Penguin, 2007)
• John Evelyn, The Diary of John Evelyn (various editions; Kindle edition very cheap on Amazon)
• George Goodwin, Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father (W&N, 2016)
• Gillian Tindall, The Man Who Drew London: Wenceslaus Hollar in Reality and Imagination (Pimlico, 2003); see also Hollar's Long View of London from Bankside of 1647
• James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (various editions)
• Charles Nicholl, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe (Vintage, paperback, 2002)
• Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (Penguin Books, 2003)
• Robert Latham (ed), The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary (1982)
• Samuel Pepys, Diary (various editions, full and abridged; Kindle edition free on Amazon)
• Lisa Jardine, On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren (HarperCollins, 2002)
• Adrian Tinniswood, His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren (Pimlico, 2002)
• Leo Hollis, The Phoenix: The Men Who Made Modern London (Phoenix, paperback, 2009) - about Christopher Wren, John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, John Locke and Nicholas Barbon
• Ian Kelly, Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian London (Picador, 2012)
• Nick Rennison, The London Blue Plaque Guide (The History Press, 2009