General History

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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

• http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/ Records of patients at "The Retreat" (large Quaker mental hospital at York)

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

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

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.

Inns and Public Houses

• http://www.norfolkpubs.co.uk/ Norfolk Public Houses

• http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/pubs.html Pubs in Victorian London

• http://www.1881pubs.com/ Pubs in 1881

• http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/towns/worcester/worcestershire/ Worcester pubs

• http://www.bristolslostpubs.com Pubs lost in Bristol

• http://londonpublichouse.com/ London & Essex Pubs History & Trade Directory

• http://www.hillfields.org.uk/History/Pubs/Index.htm Pubs in Hillfields, Coventry

• http://www.midlandspubs.co.uk Midlands pubs

• http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/pubs/index.html Warwickshire pubs

• http://www.sfowler.force9.co.uk/page_27.htm Tracing ancestors who worked in pubs

• http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Dir/StaffsPubs1818.html Staffordshire pubs

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/ZOtherPapers/Index/PubsInnsBeer.html Index to Pubs Inns and Beer Houses

• http://www.edinburgh247.com/edinburgh-pub-guide.asp A modern guide but handy list of Edinburgh pubs

• http://www.ensignewart.demon.co.uk/ensign/html/history_of_the_pub.html The story of the Ensign Ewart pub

• http://www.oldnotts.co.uk/sutton/pubs/others.htm Notts Pubs

• http://www.pubhistory.freeserve.co.uk/ The Pub History Society

• http://www.easywell.co.uk/pubs/ Gloucestershire Pubs and Breweries

Maps and Photography

• http://www.motco.com/MAP/ -Historic maps of London – most have indexes of place names

• http://www.motco.com/print/ Historic prints of London and other parts of Britain

• http://www.motco.com/panoramas/ Panoramic views of London and the Thames

• http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/oldmap/index.asp Lancashire County Council - Environment Directorate: Old Maps

• http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ Historical map archive searchable by place name, address or coordinate (OS Grid Reference)

• http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/index.html Maps of Scotland 1560-1928

• http://www.nls.uk/pont/index.html Ponts Maps of Scotland

• http://www.nls.uk/maps/military/index.html Military Maps of Scotland (18th century)

• http://www.nls.uk/maps/townplans/index.html Ordnance Survey town plans 1847-1895

• http://www.countyviews.com/

• http://www.countyviews.com/beds/church.htm Bedfordshire Church Photographs

• http://www.countyviews.com/beds/index.htm Bedfordshire Town and Village Photographs

• http://www.countyviews.com/bucks/church.htm Buckinghamshire Church Photographs

• http://www.countyviews.com/bucks/index.htm Buckinghamshire Town and Village Photographs

• http://www.countyviews.com/oxford/index.htm Oxfordshire Photos (very few at the moment)

• http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/ Date a Victorian Photo

The Landed Gentry

• http://www.sledmerehouse.com/intro.html Sledmere House and Gardens website

• http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0601sykes.html Biographies of family members; papers of Sykes family held at Brynmor-Jones library, University of Hull

• http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/sledmere.htm The Sledmere stud

• http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/leisure/tourism/pdf/leaflets/sykes_trail.pdf Churches restored by Sir Tatton Sykes

• http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/wagon/index1.htm Sir Mark Sykes & the Wagoners Reserve (with link to attestation details of individual men)

• http://www.r-alston.co.uk/country_house_database.htm A database of country houses in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and some of the surrounding islands, with brief histories.

Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen

• http://www.blisworth.org.uk/images/index.html

• http://www.canals.com/resource.htm

• http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/collection/family-history.htm

• http://www.hnboc.org.uk/ Narrowboat

• http://www.bargeman.co.uk/ Bargemen

• http://www.silsden.net/useful/Leeds_andLiverpool_canal_timeline.htm Leeds and Liverpool Canal

• http://www.virtualwaterways.co.uk/Home.html

• http://www.canaljunction.com/craft/index.htm Boats and Barges

• http://www.canaljunction.com/canal/boat_people.htm Canal People

• http://www.geocities.com/thameswatermen/index.htm The Thames Watermen - 1555 to 1700

• http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.142/chapterId/2955/Thames-Watermen.html History of London Watermen

• http://www.parishregister.com/

• http://www.watermenshall.org/history/ancestors

• http://www.thamespilot.org.uk

• http://www.geocities.com/watermenarchive

• http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk

• http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/

• http://www.horsedrawnboats.co.uk

• http://townsleyb.members.beeb.net/Boatmen/

• http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/collection/family-history.htm

• http://www.canals.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm

• http://www.mike-stevens.co.uk/maps/index.htm

• http://www.virtualwaterways.co.uk

• http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/external/rchs

• http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/jim.shead/index.htm

• http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra

• http://geocities.com/fountalnpen/index Cheshire Canals

Jewish history

• http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/londweb.htm Jewish history in London

Some Old Legal Terms

Some of those funny words that we find on old wills etc.

MOIETY......... A half .....part..... portion or share of property etc. Note: Such is usually based on family or unilateral descent.

GAVELKIND...... Equal shares among qualifying heirs.

ECHEATS......... Reversion of land to the manor etc. under feudal tenure when lacking legal heirs.

MESSUAGE...... House or dwelling.

SIEZED............ To be in legal possession of, from the feudal concept of "seisin"

INTER ALIA..... Among other things

DEMESNE..........Land of a feudal lord retained for his own use i.e the grounds of a Mansion etc.

TERRIER........... A form of Register of Land belonging to an estate etc..

FEALTY............The fidelity owed to a Feudal Lord

FRANKPLEDGE....Anglo Saxon system in which 10 households or tithings were grouped together and became responsible for each others behaviour or conduct.

CAPITE.............means the Tenant held the property in 'Capite' for the landlord to whom he paid rents

ATTAINDER........Common law - The state of an offender who had been sentenced for a capital offence.

ATTAINTED..... disgraced......... or to pass sentence of attainder against....

ENFEOFFED.... to invest with a Feudal estate or fee.

DEVISED.......... Give land or property in a Will. Or to plan and contrive.

DEFEASANCE ...... Forfeiture or annulment of something or some legal right (usually because some original condition has not been complied with; e.g. not paying the mortgage)

Workhouses

• http://www.workhouses.org.uk/

• http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/StMarylebone/

• http://www5.surreycc.gov.uk/dtcgi/nph-dtweb.exe?DThs=SurreyNoOrderNaturalLanguageFrame.htm Surrey History Centre Collections Catalogue

• http://www.highlittletonhistory.org.uk/ High Littleton & Hallatrow History and Parish Records

The Celts

• http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry Celts Anglo-celtic