Difference between revisions of "General History"

From the Family Tree Forum Reference Library
 
(280 intermediate revisions by 8 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
 +
[[Category:General Reference]]
 +
 +
[[image:genhist.jpg|250px|right]]
 
__TOC__
 
__TOC__
 +
 +
==The Family Tree Forum Timeline==
 +
 +
Our ancestors (like us) were shaped by the world they lived in and the sudden movement of a family, for example, from their birthplace to another part of the country could be explained by what was happening in the wider world.
 +
 +
'''[[The Timeline]]''' will help you to put the personal life of your ancestors in context with the social and political situation of the time.
 +
 +
 +
==Pathé News Online==
 +
 +
Until 1970 cinemas all over Britain showed Pathé newsreels. Now you can view the entire collection, over 3500 hours, online at:
 +
 +
*[http://www.britishpathe.com Pathé News]
 +
 +
It is necessary to register, but whilst there is a charge for high-resolution copies of the films you can view low resolution versions free of charge. Almost all are in black and white, and the very earliest footage is silent.
 +
 +
The earliest films date from 1896! Pathé display a Top Twenty on their site - the most popular when we checked was a film of the Titanic, but an early favourite of ours is the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901.
 +
<br>
 +
 +
*[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ British History Online]
 +
<br>
  
 
==Related Pages==
 
==Related Pages==
 +
 +
 +
*[[Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen]]
 +
 +
*[[Evacuation_and_Evacuees#British_Home_Children|British Home Children]]
 +
 +
*[[Canals and Canal Carriers]]
 +
 +
*[[Charitable Organisations]]
  
 
*[[Costume Past and Present]]  
 
*[[Costume Past and Present]]  
  
−
*[[Crime and Punishment]]  
+
*[[Law and Law Enforcement]]  
  
−
*[[Emigration and Immigration]] Incorporating Shipping and Passenger Lists
+
*[[Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers]]
 +
 
 +
*[[Emigration and Immigration]]  
 +
 
 +
*[[Entertainment]]
 +
 
 +
*[[Evacuation and Evacuees]]
 +
 
 +
*[[Fairground/Showmen/Travellers]]
  
 
*[[Farming and Agriculture]]
 
*[[Farming and Agriculture]]
 +
 +
*[[Inns and Public Houses]]
  
 
*[[Irish Political and Social History]]
 
*[[Irish Political and Social History]]
 +
 +
*[[Maps and Photography]]
 +
 +
*[[:Category:Military and Maritime History|Military and Maritime History]]
  
 
*[[Mining and Heavy Industry]]
 
*[[Mining and Heavy Industry]]
 +
 +
*[[Nursing]]
 +
 +
*[[Places of Worship]]
 +
 +
*[[Railways]]
  
 
*[[Religion and the Clergy]]
 
*[[Religion and the Clergy]]
 +
 +
*[[Sport]]
  
 
*[[Stonemasons]]  
 
*[[Stonemasons]]  
Line 21: Line 76:
 
*[[Trades and Occupations]]  
 
*[[Trades and Occupations]]  
  
−
*[[Inns and Public Houses]]
+
*[[Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanitoriums|Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanatoriums]]
 +
<br>
 +
 
 +
==Schools and Education==
  
−
*[[Maps and Photography]]
+
*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Parliamentary Legislation]
  
−
*[[Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen]]
+
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education]
  
−
*[[Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanitoriums]]
 
  
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
  
−
==Schools and Education==
+
==Museums and Galleries==
 +
 
 +
*[http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum - The Story of the Infantry of Berkshire and Wiltshire]
  
−
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Education acts – history & politicians]
+
*[http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Beamish Open Air Museum, County Durham. Northern Life in The 1800s & Early 1900s.]
  
−
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education]
+
*[http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp Theme Museum Malton, North Yorkshire. Centred on The History of WW2.]
  
−
<BR>
+
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/saltaire.shtml Saltaire, Bradford. Factory & Village Built by Millowner & Philanthropist Sir Titus Salt]
  
−
==Museums and Galleries==
+
*[http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Salts Mill - Home to The David Hockney Exhibition.]
  
−
*[http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 Museum of The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - Salisbury]
+
*[http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/ History of Woollen Cloth in Trowbridge]
  
−
*[http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Open air museum,at Beamish, Couty Durham, reflecting Northern life in 1800’s and early 1900’s]
+
*[http://catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk/DServe/DServe.exe?dsqServer=localhost&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Index.tcl The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA)]
  
−
*[http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire - Theme museum, centred on the history of WW2]
+
*[[See How Your Ancestors Lived]] 
  
−
*[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.oldandinteresting.com/ Old and interesting - History of Domestic Paraphernalia]
 +
<BR>
  
−
*[http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Village includes Salts Mill – houses the David Hockney exhibition]
+
==Work and Trade Associations / Unions==
  
−
<BR>
+
*[http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Affiliated Friendly Societies]
  
−
==Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions==
+
*[http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors]
  
−
*http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Friendly Societies - a brief overview, with links to some specifiic societies
+
*[http://www.unionhistory.info/matchworkers/browse.php Bryant & May Matchworkers Strike Fund Register 1888]
  
−
*http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors
+
*[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/catalogues/unions/ Trade Unions and Similar Organisations]
  
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
Line 63: Line 123:
 
==Political Parties and Movements==
 
==Political Parties and Movements==
  
−
=====The Suffragettes=====
+
*[http://chartists.net/ Chartist Ancestors]
  
−
*http://www.cjbooks.demon.co.uk/suffrage.htm
+
*[http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM Give Women The Vote!]
  
−
*http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM
+
*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm Famous Suffragettes]
  
−
*http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm
+
*[http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm What Did The Suffragettes Do?]
  
−
*http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm
+
<br>
 +
 
 +
==The Industrial Revolution==
 +
 
 +
*[http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum]
 +
 
 +
*[http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm The History of The Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands 1700 -1830]
  
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
  
 +
==American History==
 +
 +
'''[http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/USA#Military_History See Separate page]'''
 +
 +
<br>
  
 +
==Civilian Transport==
  
−
==The Industrial Revolution==
+
*[http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching]
  
−
*http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Leeds industrial museum, which includes a history of industrialisation
+
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottinghamshire_and_Derbyshire_Tramways_Company Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company.]
  
−
*http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ A useful site for the cotton spinning and weaving industry
+
*[http://www.lvta.co.uk/menu/lvta-taxi-history/ London Horse Cabs and Hackney Carriages History]
  
−
*http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm Industrial History
+
*[http://asms.k12.ar.us/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/helicptr/webpage.htm The Evolution of the Helicopter]
  
−
<BR>
+
*[http://www.ba-gb.com/index.php?ps=8 A Brief History Of The Bicycle]
  
−
==American History==
+
*[http://www.alcester.dial.pipex.com/localpast/94au/oral.htm Oral Account of Coach Building, Early 1900s]
  
−
*http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html Women in the American civil war, with links to other related sites
+
*[http://www.railwayancestors.org.uk/ The Railway Ancestors Family History Society]
  
−
*http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm America in World War One
+
*[http://web.onyxnet.co.uk/Auffret-onyxnet.co.uk/railways/railways.htm The North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway]
  
−
<BR>
+
*[http://www.seasidehistory.co.uk/index.html Seaside Travel and Nostalgia]
  
−
==Civilian Transport==
+
*[http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/ukregistrations.html History Behind British Vehicle Registration System]
  
−
*http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching
+
*[http://www.britishtaxdiscs.co.uk/tax-disc-history.php History of The Road Fund Licence - Tax Disk]
  
−
*http://www.hometown.aol.co.uk/BritHorseTrams/index.html Horse trams
+
*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Transport Times Past - Transport]
 +
<br>
  
−
*http://www.lvta.co.uk/history.htm Horse cabs and Hackney carriages
+
Go to [[Railways]] Page
 +
<br>
  
−
*http://www.flying-bike.demon.co.uk/helistuff/heli.html Helicopters
+
==Architecture and Old Buildings==
  
−
*http://www.ba-gb.com/index.php?ps=8 Bicycles
+
*[http://www.churchplansonline.org/ Church Plans Online]
  
−
<BR>
+
*[http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, The First Garden City]
  
−
==Architecture and Old Buildings==
+
*[http://www.cadbury.co.uk/CADBURYANDCHOCOLATE/OURSTORY/PHILAN/Pages/bvttoday.aspx Bournville Village (Founded by Richard and George Cadbury)]
  
−
*http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, the first Garden City
+
*[http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/ Port Sunlight founded by William Lever]
  
−
*http://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/history_cadbury/social_pioneers/bournville_village.htm Bourneville village (founded by the Cadburys)
+
*[http://www.jrht.org.uk/Your+community/Communities+by+location/New+Earswick New Earswick Village built by Joseph Rowntree]
  
−
*http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/page.asp?pageid=history Port Sunlight (founded by William Lever)
+
*[http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/castles.html#A British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses]
  
−
*http://www.jrf.org.uk/housingandcare/newearswick/ New Earswick (built by Joseph Rowntree)
+
*[http://www.victorianstation.com/architecturemenu.htm Victorian Architecture, (mostly American)]
  
−
*http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/castles.html#A British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses
+
*[http://www.buildinghistory.org/ Researching Historic Buildings in The British Isles]
  
−
*http://www.victorianstation.com/architecturemenu.htm Victorian Architecture, mostly American
+
*[http://www.victorianlondon.org/ Explore Victorian London]
  
−
*http://www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Researching historic buildings in the British Isles
 
  
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
  
−
==The Law and Social Legislation==
+
==The British Monarchy==
  
−
*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.royal.gov.uk/ The Offical Website of The British Monarchy]
  
−
*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://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web]
  
−
*http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/ccourts.htm A brief description of the 19th Century Criminal Justice System
+
*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Royal%20events Times Past - Royal Events]
  
−
*http://www.met.police.uk/history/index.htm History of the Metropolitan Police
+
<BR>
  
 +
==The Landed Gentry==
  
−
<BR>
+
*[http://www.sledmerehouse.com/ Sledmere House, Home of Sir Tatton Sykes]
  
−
==The British Monarchy==
+
*[http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0601sykes.html Papers of Sykes Family- Held at Brynmor-Jones Library, The University of Hull.]
  
−
*http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web
+
*[http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/sledmere.htm The Sledmere Stud, Driffield, East Yorkshire]
  
−
*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.
+
*[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]
  
−
<BR>
+
*[http://www.leighrayment.com/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page - a database of MPs]
  
 +
*[http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/wagon/ Sir Mark Sykes Bart]
  
 +
<br>
  
 +
==Jewish History==
  
 +
[[image:Ark and pulpit Brighton Synagogue.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Ark and pulpit. Middle St Synagogue, Brighton]]
  
 +
*[http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/londweb.htm The London Jews Database (pre-1850)]
  
 +
*[http://www.jeffreymaynard.com/index.htm Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies]
  
−
==The Landed Gentry ==
+
*[http://www.jewishgen.org/ JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy]
  
−
*http://www.sledmerehouse.com/intro.html Sledmere House and Gardens website
+
*[http://www.saudades.org/ Saudades Portuguese Sephardic History]
  
−
*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.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_9E The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names]
  
−
*http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/sledmere.htm The Sledmere stud
+
*[http://www.joodsmonument.nl/article.php?thg_id=HELP&lang=en Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands]
  
−
*http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/leisure/tourism/pdf/leaflets/sykes_trail.pdf Churches restored by Sir Tatton Sykes
+
*[http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/ Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain]
  
−
*http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/wagon/index1.htm Sir Mark Sykes & the Wagoners Reserve (with link to attestation details of individual men)
+
<br>
  
−
*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.
+
==The Celts==
 +
 
 +
*[http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry - The Anglo-Saxon and The Celtic Age]
  
 
<br>
 
<br>
  
 +
==Slavery==
 +
 +
*[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/eabolition.asp International Slavery Museum]
 +
 +
*[http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces The Transantlantic Slave Trade Database]
 +
 +
*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm The Slave Trade - 1700-1930]
 +
 +
*[http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas]
 +
 +
*[http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html#A North American Slave Narratives]
 +
 +
*[http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/slavery/index.htm?cids=Google_PPC&cre=Slavery The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Abolition Movement] Time Line of Key Events
 +
 +
*[http://www.brycchancarey.com/index.htm Slavery, Emancipation, and Abolition]
 +
 +
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/ Abolition of The Slave Trade]
  
 +
*[http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/atlantic.slave.trade.html Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade 1502 - 1841]
  
−
==Jewish history ==
+
*[http://www.discoveringbristol.org.uk/subIndex.php?sit_id=1 Bristol and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade]
  
−
*http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/londweb.htm Jewish history in London
+
*[http://www.recoveredhistories.org/ Recovered Histories- Reawakening The Narratives of Enslavement, Resistance and the Fight For Freedom]
  
 +
*[http://www.revealinghistories.org.uk/ Revealing History - Remembering Slavery]
 +
 +
*[http://www.abolition200.org.uk/ Abolition 200 The Bicentenary of the Abolition of The Slave Trade Act]
 +
 +
*[http://compensations.plantations.bb/ Slave Compensation Claims]
 
<br>
 
<br>
  
 +
==Current Value of Old Money==
 +
 +
*[http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html Current value of old money]
 +
 +
*[http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/money.htm  Pre-decimal Sterling Coinage]
 +
<br>
 +
 +
==Uncategorised==
 +
 +
*[http://www.britishfarthings.com/Tokens/17th-Century/17th-Century.html 17th-Century Farthing Trade Tokens]
 +
 +
*[http://www.footrule.com/1/conversn/oengothr.htm?sr=homepage&ac=0 Old English Weights and Measures]
 +
 +
*[http://home.clara.net/brianp/index.html Weights and Measures]
 +
 +
*[http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html Nova Roma Guide to understanding Roman Numerals]
 +
 +
*[http://www.roman-britain.org/numerals.htm Roman Britain. understanding Roman Numerals]
 +
 +
*[http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html Day of Week Calculator]
 +
 +
*[http://homepages.tesco.net/~jk.calisto/calisto/ A Calender Program for Western Europe AD 326 - 2999]
  
 +
*[http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html Ecclesiastical Calendar Calculator]
  
−
==The Celts ==
+
*[http://www.londonlibraries.org/servlets/llil/archives London Local Studies Libraries and Archives]
  
−
*http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry Celts Anglo-celtic
+
*[http://www.arewerelated.co.uk/ Are We Related? (A Forum)]
  
−
<br>
+
*[http://www.weddingspastandpresent.co.uk/ Weddings Past and Present]
 +
 
 +
*[http://home.snu.edu/~dwilliam/f97projects/contraception/history.htm a Brief History of Contraception]
 +
 
 +
*[http://www.genealogyprinters.com Family Tree & Chart Printing]
 +
 
 +
*[http://www.netserf.org/glossary/ Hypertext Medieval Glossary]
 +
 
 +
*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Youth%20groups Tales from Youth Organisations]
 +
 
 +
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworths_Group Woolworths History]
 +
 
 +
*[http://www.examstutor.com/business/resources/companyprofiles/marksandspencer/history.php The History of Marks and Spencer]
 +
 +
<br><br>
 +
 
 +
 
 +
Back to [[Creating Your Family Tree]]
 +
 
 +
Back to [[Main Page]]

Latest revision as of 08:25, 10 September 2022


Genhist.jpg

The Family Tree Forum Timeline

Our ancestors (like us) were shaped by the world they lived in and the sudden movement of a family, for example, from their birthplace to another part of the country could be explained by what was happening in the wider world.

The Timeline will help you to put the personal life of your ancestors in context with the social and political situation of the time.


Pathé News Online

Until 1970 cinemas all over Britain showed Pathé newsreels. Now you can view the entire collection, over 3500 hours, online at:

It is necessary to register, but whilst there is a charge for high-resolution copies of the films you can view low resolution versions free of charge. Almost all are in black and white, and the very earliest footage is silent.

The earliest films date from 1896! Pathé display a Top Twenty on their site - the most popular when we checked was a film of the Titanic, but an early favourite of ours is the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901.


Related Pages


Schools and Education



Museums and Galleries


Work and Trade Associations / Unions


Political Parties and Movements


The Industrial Revolution


American History

See Separate page


Civilian Transport


Go to Railways Page

Architecture and Old Buildings



The British Monarchy


The Landed Gentry


Jewish History

Ark and pulpit. Middle St Synagogue, Brighton


The Celts


Slavery


Current Value of Old Money


Uncategorised




Back to Creating Your Family Tree

Back to Main Page

Retrieved from "https://reference.familytreeforum.com/index.php?title=General_History&oldid=92295"
GNU Free Documentation License 1.3
Powered by MediaWiki