General History

Related Pages

• Costume Past and Present

• Crime and Punishment

• Emigration and Immigration Incorporating Shipping and Passenger Lists

• Farming and Agriculture

• Irish Political and Social History

• Mining and Heavy Industry

• Religion and the Clergy

• Stonemasons

• Trades and Occupations

• Inns and Public Houses

• Maps and Photography

• Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen

• Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanitoriums

• Entertainment

• Fairground/Showmen/Travellers

Schools and Education

• Education acts – history & politicians

• History of State Education

Museums and Galleries

• Museum of The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - Salisbury

• Open air museum,at Beamish, Couty Durham, reflecting Northern life in 1800’s and early 1900’s

• Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire - Theme museum, centred on the history of WW2

• Saltaire, Bradford – factory and village, built by millowner & philanthropist Sir Titus Salt.

• Village includes Salts Mill – houses the David Hockney exhibition

Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions

• Friendly Societies - a brief overview, with links to some specifiic societies

• Trade Union Ancestors

Political Parties and Movements

The Suffragettes

• SUFFRAGETTES Give Women the Vote

• Spartacus Educational Gives Names of the more well remembered ladies

• What did the Suffragettes Do?

The Industrial Revolution

• Leeds industrial museum, which includes a history of industrialisation

• A useful site for the cotton spinning and weaving industry

• Industrial History

American History

• Women in the American civil war, with links to other related sites

• America in World War One

Civilian Transport

• Carriages and Coaching

• Horse trams

• Horse cabs and Hackney carriages

• Helicopters

• Bicycles

• Oral account of Coachbuilding, Early 1900’s

• The Railway Workers Family History Society

Architecture and Old Buildings

• Letchworth, the first Garden City

• Bourneville village (founded by the Cadburys)

• Port Sunlight (founded by William Lever)

• New Earswick (built by Joseph Rowntree)

• British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses

• Victorian Architecture, mostly American

• Researching historic buildings in the British Isles

Law and Order

• 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.

• 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.

• A brief description of the 19th Century Criminal Justice System

• A history of the Metropolitan Police from 1829

• Police Force Roll of Honor-Officers that lost their lives On duty

• Friends of the Metropolitan Police Historical Collection

• Police reports-The Police Index

• The PARISH CONSTABLE, the Precursor of today's SPECIAL

• City of London Police wikipedia

• Welcome to the online Metropolitan police orders database

The British Monarchy

• Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web

• Tribal pages uses the British royal family for its family tree tutorial If you think you have royal connections it might be worth browsing.

The Landed Gentry

• Sledmere House and Gardens website

• Biographies of family members; papers of Sykes family held at Brynmor-Jones library, University of Hull

• The Sledmere stud

• Churches restored by Sir Tatton Sykes

• Sir Mark Sykes & the Wagoners Reserve (with link to attestation details of individual men)

• A database of country houses in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and some of the surrounding islands, with brief histories.

Jewish history

• Jewish history in London

The Celts

• Family Ancestry Celts Anglo-celtic