Difference between revisions of "Trades and Occupations"

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-===== Links=====
+'''See also''' [[Nursing]] wiki page.
+==General==
-======'''General'''======
 *[http://www.rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html Index of Old Occupations]
+*[http://www.abandoned.org/world/alpha/other/occupa.txt Dictionary of Ancient Occupations and Trades, Ranks, Offices and Titles]
 *[http://www.census1891.com/occupations.htm Victorian Occupations]
-======'''Shoemakers'''======
+*[http://www.mundus.ac.uk/index.html Overseas Missionaries]
-*[http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?Document=400.740.50x1]
+*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Occupations Nostalgic Memories of 20th Century British Life]
+*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/womens_work_01.shtml Women's Work]
+*[http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa032703a.htm Ancient Women Warriors]
+*[http://www.historytoherstory.org.uk/ The lives and organisations of Yorkshire Women]
+*[http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/history/index.htm English Women's History]
-*[http://www.northants1841.fsnet.co.uk/shoe.html]
+*[http://www.icaew.co.uk/library/index.cfm?AUB=TB2I_88180,MNXI_88180 Accountancy Ancestors, Who was who in accountancy for 1874-1965]
+*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~engsts/potters1.html Glossary of Occupations in the Pottery industry]
+*[http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/index_alpha.htm Database of over 1500 Stoke-on-Trent Potters]
-*[http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications3/newtoilers-23.htm]
+*[http://www.clockswatches.com/ British and Irish Clock & Watch Makers]
-*[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl..._53450031/pg_5]
+*[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/trades.html Ranks, Professions, Occupations and Trades]
-======'''Mining'''======
+==Craftsmen - Various==
-*[http://www.dmm.org.uk Durham Mining Museum]
-*[http://www.whitby-uk.com/cgi-bin/site.nav/whitby.pl?page=whitbyjet Whitby Jet]
+*[http://www.apr.ac.uk/artists/home.htm Artists, Designers and Craftspeople]
-*[http://www.whitbyjet.co.uk/mining.html Whitby Jet Heritage Centre]
+*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blacksmiths/index.htm The Blacksmiths Index]
-*[http://www.cornwall-online.co.uk/jumppage-cmi.htm Cornish Miners]
+*[http://www.brushmakers.com/ Society of Brushmakers]
+*[http://corkcutter.info/ Corkcutters]
-======'''Textiles'''======
+*[http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/lifeline/sem_db/sem_db_home.html The Steam Engine Makers Database]
-*[http://www.stevengraphs.com/thomstevandh.html Silk Weaving in Foleshill, Coventry]
-*[http://www.rfkm.org/ Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum, Notts]
+*[http://www.open.ac.uk/ou5/Arts/chemists/ A Biographical Database of the British Chemical Community 1880-1970]
-*[http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/history/victorian/mills.html Textiles and Cotton Mills in Lancashire and Manchester]
+*[http://www.organ-biography.info/ Database of Organists, Organ Builders Composers of Organ Music]
+*[http://www.uk-piano.org/piano-gen/genealogy-and-the-piano-makers.html Piano-Makers]
-======'''Transport'''======
+*[http://www.bonn25.freeserve.co.uk/harpmakers.html Harpmakers and the Harp-Making Trade]
-*[http://www.alcester.dial.pipex.com/localpast/94au/oral.htm Oral account of Coachbuilding, Early 1900’s]
-*[http://www.railwayancestors.fsnet.co.uk The Railway Workers Family History Society]
+*[http://www.cecilia-uk.org/html/ Musicians]
+*[http://www.witheridge-historical-archive.com/wheelwright.htm?lpos=fromtheweb The Wheelwright & His Craft]
-======'''Metalworking'''======
 *[http://www.kidwellyhistory.co.uk/Industry/TinWorkers.htm Kidwelly Tin Plate Workers]
-======'''Law and Order'''======
+==Domestic Service==
-*[http://www.met.police.uk/history/index.htm A history of the Metropolitan Police from 1829]
+*[http://www.ourwardfamily.com/victorian_servants.htm Victorian Servants]
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_service Wikipedia: Domestic Service]
+*[http://www.bricksandbrass.co.uk/people/staff/sabout.htm People in Your Victorian Home]
+*[http://www.victorianlondon.org/ The Victorian Dictionary]
+*[http://www.lostcousins.com/pages/news/?id=131 The Lost Cousins website has added the facility to add the servants in a household]
-======'''Ceramics'''======
+''Further reading:''
-*[http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/index_alpha.htm Database of over 1500 Stoke-on-Trent Potters]
-*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~engsts/potters1.html Glossary of Occupations in the Pottery industry]
+*[http://www.shirebooks.co.uk/home.aspx?SetLocation=GB The Victorian Domestic Servant - Trevor May]
+*[http://www.judithflanders.co.uk/VictorianHouse.htm The Victorian House - Judith Flanders]
-======'''Photography'''======
-*[http://mywebpage.netscape.com/hibchris/instant/aboutme.html Victorian photographers 1850-1901]
-*[http://www.thornburypump.myby.co.uk/PI/ Edwardian and Victorian Photographers]
+==Food and Drink Related==
-*[http://www.photolondon.org.uk/directory.htm Database of London photographers 1841-1908]
+*[http://www.botham.co.uk/bread/index.htm A History of Bread Making and Milling]
-*[http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/2/2_alphabetical.htm#Other%20Photographers Edinburgh photographers]
+*[http://www.jbsumner.com/pages/brewinghistory/ JB Sumner's Brewing History Resources]
-*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Stsphots.html Staffordshire Photographers 1861-1940]
+*[http://www.mawer.clara.net/intro.html Sugar Refiners and Sugar Bakers]
-*[http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/peopleindex.pl?surname=A&role=Photographer Another database]
+*[http://www.millsarchive.com/9family/millers.aspx The Millers & Millwrights Database]
-======'''Sports'''======
+==Printers and Allied Trades==
-*[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/index.html Cricketers past and present]
-*[http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/index.html Database of over 50,000 cricketers and officials]
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Stationers_and_Newspaper_Makers The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers - Wikipedia]
-*[http://www.prewarboxing.co.uk/ Pre-war British Boxing]
+*[http://www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/ British Book Trade Index] Index of names and brief trade and biographical details of people who were trading by 1851.
+*[http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/resources/sbti/index.html The Scottish Booktrade includes printers, bookbinders and stationers]
-======'''Awaiting Classification'''======
+*[http://www.stationers.org/ The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers]
-*[http://www.mawer.clara.net/intro.html Sugar Refiners and Sugar Bakers]
-*[http://www.open.ac.uk/ou5/Arts/chemists/ A biographical database of the British Chemical Community 1880-1970]
-*[http://hometown.aol.com/PRode18115/ Bristol Channel Pilots]
+==Shoemakers==
-*[http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JACKIE_SANDERS/pilots.htm Cardiff mariners]
+*[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1594_273/ai_53450031/pg_1 Producing History: The Clickers Tale - England]
-*[http://www.millsarchive.com/9family/millers.aspx British Milling]
+*[http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?Document=400.740.50x1 Norwich Boot & Shoe Industry]
-*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Lighthouses/ Lighthouse personnel in England, Wales and the Channel Islands 1790-1911]
+*[http://www.northants1841.fsnet.co.uk/shoe.html Shoe Making Terms Explained]
-*[http://www.clockswatches.com/ British and Irish Clock & Watch Makers]
+*[http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications3/newtoilers-23.htm  Victorian London-Boot and Shoe Makers]
-*[http://www.clockmakers.archivist.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page Clock and Watch makers]
+*[http://www.bastonfamily.co.uk/historical/OccupationCordwainer.htm Cordwainers]
-*[http://www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/ BRITISH BOOK TRADE INDEX] Index of names and brief trade and biographical details of people who were in the book trade in England and Wales and were trading by 1851.<br>
-*[http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/resources/sbti/index.html THE SCOTTISH BOOK TRADE] Includes printers, bookbinders and stationers.
+==Surgical - Doctors and Dentists==
-*[http://www.apr.ac.uk/artists/home.htm Artists, Designers and Craftspeople]
+*[http://www.bda.org/museum/ British Dental Association Museum]
-*[http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/holdings/Catalogues/medics/medics_abc.html Surgeons and physicians licensed by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775]
+*[http://www.rcgp.org.uk/services/history_heritage__archives/archives/tracing_your_medical_ancestors.aspx Tracing your Medical Ancestors]
-*[http://www.medicalpioneers.com/ Database of Australian medical pioneers from the 1700s-1875]
+*[http://user.itl.net/~glen/doctors.html Was your ancestor a Doctor?]
-*[http://www.organ-biography.info/ Database of ORGANISTS, ORGAN BUILDERS and COMPOSERS OF ORGAN MUSIC]
+*[http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:tNNZ9yLPklcJ:www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/files/Medical_Licences.pdf+Surgeons+%26+Physicians+Licensed+by+The+Archbishop+of+Canterbury+1535-1775&hl=en&gl=uk&sig=AFQjCNHSa8PuKrxthmr5sVgVaR2MrfVeaA Medical Licenses authorised by The Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775]
-*[http://www.mundus.ac.uk/index.html Overseas Missionaries]
+*[http://www.medicalpioneers.com/ Database of Australian Medical Pioneers From the 1700s-1875]
-*[http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/index.html Nursing]
-*[http://www.brushmakers.com/ Brushmaking]a
+==Textiles==
 *[http://80.45.7.205/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Index.tcl Kidderminster's Carpet Heritage]
+*[http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/history/victorian/mills.html Textiles and Cotton Mills in Lancashire and Manchester]
+*[http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/cnm/lace/index.html The Lace-Making Industry of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire]
+*[http://www.ourwardfamily.com/cotton_trade.htm The Cotton Trade and Mill workers]
+*[http://www.rfkm.org/ Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum, Notts]
+*[http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ The Cotton Industry in NW England]
+*[http://www.stevengraphs.com/thomstevandh.html Silk Weaving in Foleshill, Coventry]
+*[http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/ History of the Woollen Cloth Industry in Trowbridge]
+*[http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=framework%20knitting&hl=en&rlz=1T4SNYK_en-GBGB310GB310&tbs=tl:1&tbo=1&ei=QRY5Srv5FsOLjAfWl8z-DQ&sa=X&oi=timeline_result&ct=title&resnum=11 History of Framework Knitting]
+*[http://www.knittingtogether.org.uk/doc2.asp?doc=7342&cat=753 Knitting together - Wigston Framework Knitters Museum, Leicester]
+==Public Service Occupations==
+*[http://www.lnwrs.org.uk/index.php London and North Western Railway]
+*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Coastguards/ British Coastguards 1841-1901]
+*[http://www.coastguardsofyesteryear.org/news.php Irish Coastguards of Yesteryear]
+*[http://steve.pickthall.users.btopenworld.com/pci/index.html The Parish Clerk Index]
+*[http://catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk/dserve/bpma_docs/Family-History-Guide.html The British Postal Museum & Archive]
+'''See also''' [[Nursing]] wiki page.
+Back to [[Main Page]]
+Back to [[General History]]

Difference between revisions of "Trades and Occupations"

Latest revision as of 08:09, 8 September 2022

Contents

General

Craftsmen - Various

Domestic Service

Food and Drink Related

Printers and Allied Trades

Shoemakers

Surgical - Doctors and Dentists

Textiles

Public Service Occupations