General History

Schools and Education

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Education acts – history & politicians

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education

Museums and Galleries

• http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 Museum of The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - Salisbury

• http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Open air museum,at Beamish, Couty Durham, reflecting Northern life in 1800’s and early 1900’s

• http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire - Theme museum, centred on the history of WW2

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/saltaire.shtml Saltaire, Bradford – factory and village, built by millowner & philanthropist Sir Titus Salt.

• http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Village includes Salts Mill – houses the David Hockney exhibition

Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions

• http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Friendly Societies - a brief overview, with links to some specifiic societies

• http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors

Political Parties and Movements

The Suffragettes

• http://www.cjbooks.demon.co.uk/suffrage.htm

• http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm

• http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm

Hospitals, Asylums and Sanitoriums

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/MAB/MAB.shtml Establishment of hospitals, asylums, hospital ships, smallpox & TB

• http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/english_asylums.htm Asylum information

• http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/search.asp TNA's Hospital Database search facility

• http://www.coram.org.uk/heritage.htm CORAM Foundling Hospital Association

The Industrial Revolution

• http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Leeds industrial museum, which includes a history of industrialisation

• http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ A useful site for the cotton spinning and weaving industry

• http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm Industrial History

American History

• http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html Women in the American civil war, with links to other related sites

• http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm America in World War One

Irish Political and Social History

The Potato Famine

• http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/index.html

• http://www.humboldt1.com/~history/lexiso/

• http://www.victorianweb.org/history/famine.html

• http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/index.htm

Catholic Emancipation

• http://www.victorianweb.org/history/emancipation2.html

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRcatholic.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Emancipation

• http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/ireland/peelcema.htm

Easter Rising 1916

• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1916_easter_rising.htm

• http://users.bigpond.net.au/kirwilli/1916/

• http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/history/east1916.html

• http://www.irelandforvisitors.com/articles/easter1916.htm

Misc.

• http://www2.cruzio.com/~sbarrett/mcollins.htm Michael Collins

• http://www.proni.gov.uk/ulstercovenant/index.html Ulster Covenant - Nearly half a million signatures and addresses of protestant men and women, who signed on the 28th of September 1912 in an objection to giving Ireland home rule.

Civilian Transport

• http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching

• http://www.hometown.aol.co.uk/BritHorseTrams/index.html Horse trams

• http://www.lvta.co.uk/history.htm Horse cabs and Hackney carriages

• http://www.flying-bike.demon.co.uk/helistuff/heli.html Helicopters

• http://www.ba-gb.com/index.php?ps=8 Bicycles

Architecture and Old Buildings

• http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, the first Garden City

• http://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/history_cadbury/social_pioneers/bournville_village.htm Bourneville village (founded by the Cadburys)

• http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/page.asp?pageid=history Port Sunlight (founded by William Lever)

• http://www.jrf.org.uk/housingandcare/newearswick/ New Earswick (built by Joseph Rowntree)

• http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/castles.html#A British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses

• http://www.victorianstation.com/architecturemenu.htm Victorian Architecture, mostly American

• http://www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Researching historic buildings in the British Isles

The Law and Social Legislation

• http://www.oldbaileyonline.org This has the transcripts of Old Bailey trials from 1674-1834. You can search by name or place, (the name search includes defendants, witnesses and jurors). Also has old maps and other info about London history.

• http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/forewords/A138.pdf although written as an introduction to the Apprenticeship Register for Dawlish, Devon, this provides a good description of the Parish Apprenticeship system in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

• http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/ccourts.htm A brief description of the 19th Century Criminal Justice System

• http://www.met.police.uk/history/index.htm History of the Metropolitan Police

Crime and Punishment

• http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con-wa1.html Western Australian Convicts

• http://uk.geocities.com/becky62655@btinternet.com/ Capital punishment in the 18th & 19th centuries.

• http://www.oldbaileyonline.org This has the transcripts of Old Bailey hearings from 1674-1834 (to be expanded). You can search by name or place, (the name search includes defendants, witnesses and jurors). Also has old maps and other info about London history.

• http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/roots/list_cri.htm History of Crime and detection with specific reference to Shropshire

• http://www.metaphor.dk/guillotine/Pages/Guillot.html The Guillotine Headquarters

• http://www.geocities.com/richard.clark32@btinternet.com/common.html Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth
  • The Commonwealth provides about 30% of the Worlds population comprising 54 member nations.
  • The term ABOLISHONIST is used for those nations who no longer have the death penalty and those retaining it are known as RETENTIONIST
  • This is the breakdown of how things stand at present.
    • 28 nations = retentionist
    • 16 nations = abolishionist
    • 9 nations = abolishonist in practice but remains in the penal code.
  • For a detailed explanation of where each country stands and when the last execution took place click on the link above

• http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/abolish.html The abolition of hanging in Britain

• http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/timeline.html Timeline of capital punishment in Britain

• http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hangmen.html The English hangmen from 1850 to 1964
  • George Smith from Dudley in the Midlands 1805-1874.
  • William Calcraft - Little Baddow, near Chelmsford, Essex 1800- 1879.
  • Thomas Askern of York 1816-1878.
  • William Marwood of Horncastle Lincolnshire 1820-1883.
  • George Meker or Incher – of Dudley.
  • Bartholomew Binns.
  • James Berry of Heckmondwike Yorkshire 1852-1913.
  • Thomas Henry Scott - Huddersfield.
  • James Billington of Farnworth near Bolton in Lancashire 1847-1901.
  • Thomas Billington 1872-1902.
  • William Billington 1873-1934.
  • John Billington 1880-1905.
  • Henry Pierrepoint 1874-1922 from BradfordYorkshire.
  • John Ellis of Rochdale Lancashire 1874-1932.
  • William Willis from Manchester. 187?-1939.
  • Thomas Pierrepoint 1870 - 1954.
  • Robert Wilson from Manchester.
  • Robert Baxter of Hertford.
  • Alfred Allen - Wolverhampton.
  • Thomas Mather Phillips from Farnworth near Bolton.
  • Stanley William Cross.
  • Albert Pierrepoint of Clayton Nr. Bradford Yorkshire 1905-1992.
  • Harry Kirk from Huntingdon.
  • Stephen Wade from Doncaster.
  • Harry Bertrum Allen from Manchester 1911-1992.
  • Robert Leslie Stewart from Chadderton Lancashire 1918-1988.

• http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/calendarofprisoners On-line database of inmates in Warwick County Prison between 1800 and 1900

• http://www.llgc.org.uk/sesiwn_fawr/index_s.htm Details of crimes, criminals and punishments from the prison files of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until 1830.

• http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bucks_prisoners/index.htm Details of inmates of Aylesbury prison in the 1870s. Includes details of the prisoner's crime and sentence, and, in some instances, his photograph.

• http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/contents.htm 19th Century Bedford Gaol

• http://www.inverarayjail.co.uk/index.htm A searchable database of prisoners in Inveraray prison and their details, including prisoners who were deported

• http://www.rootschat.com/history/hastings/content/view/46/30 Prisoners sentenced to transportation from Lewes Assizes between c1790 and c1850

• http://www.yeoldesussexpages.com/misc/genealog/gene.htm Important English trials 1649-1895

• http://www.geocities.com/stevenhortonuk/liverpoolmurders.html Murders in Liverpool

• http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hanging1.html The history of judicial hanging in Britain.

• http://www.genealogytoday.com/au/articles/convict_research.html Convicts tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Assizes

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/sessions.html Kent Quarter Sessions Indices

• http://www.yorkfamilyhistory.org.uk/assizes.htm An index of over 8000 prisoners brought to trial at York Assizes between 1785 and 1851

• http://www.wirksworth.org.uk/CRIME.htm A database of persons tried at the Derbyshire Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions 1770-1828.

The British Monarchy

• http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web

• http://tribalpages.com/familytree.html Tribal pages uses the British royal family for its family tree tutorial. If you think you have royal connections it might be worth browsing.