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==The Family Tree Forum Timeline==
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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.
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'''[[The Timeline]]''' will help you to put the personal life of your ancestors in context with the social and political situation of the time.
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==Pathé News Online==
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Until 1970 cinemas all over Britain showed Pathé newsreels. Now you can view the entire collection, over 3500 hours, online at:
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*[http://www.britishpathe.com Pathé News]
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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.
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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.
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*[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ British History Online]
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==Related Pages==
 
==Related Pages==
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*[[Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen]]
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*[[Evacuation_and_Evacuees#British_Home_Children|British Home Children]]
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*[[Charitable Organisations]]
  
 
*[[Costume Past and Present]]  
 
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*[[Law and Law Enforcement]]  
  
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*[[Emigration and Immigration]] Incorporating Shipping and Passenger Lists
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*[[Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers]]
  
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*[[Farming and Agriculture]]
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*[[Emigration and Immigration]]  
  
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*[[Irish Political and Social History]]
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*[[Entertainment]]
  
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*[[Religion and the Clergy]]
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*[[Stonemasons]]  
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*[[Farming and Agriculture]]
  
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*[[Inns and Public Houses]]
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*[[Irish Political and Social History]]
  
 
*[[Maps and Photography]]
 
*[[Maps and Photography]]
  
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*[[:Category:Military and Maritime History|Military and Maritime History]]
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*[[Mining and Heavy Industry]]
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*[[Nursing]]
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*[[Places of Worship]]
  
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*[[Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanitoriums]]
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*[[Railways]]
  
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==Schools and Education==
 
==Schools and Education==
  
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* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Education acts – history & politicians]
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Parliamentary Legislation]
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education]
  
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education]
 
  
 
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==Museums and Galleries==
 
==Museums and Galleries==
  
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*[http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 Museum of The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - Salisbury]
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*[http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum - The Story of the Infantry of Berkshire and Wiltshire]
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*[http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Beamish Open Air Museum, County Durham. Northern Life in The 1800s & Early 1900s.]
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*[http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp Theme Museum Malton, North Yorkshire. Centred on The History of WW2.]
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/saltaire.shtml Saltaire, Bradford. Factory & Village Built by Millowner & Philanthropist Sir Titus Salt]  
  
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*[http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Open air museum,at Beamish, Couty Durham, reflecting Northern life in 1800’s and early 1900’s]
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*[http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Salts Mill - Home to The David Hockney Exhibition.]
  
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*[http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire - Theme museum, centred on the history of WW2]
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*[http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/ History of Woollen Cloth in Trowbridge]
  
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/saltaire.shtml Saltaire, Bradford – factory and village, built by millowner & philanthropist Sir Titus Salt.]
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*[http://catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk/DServe/DServe.exe?dsqServer=localhost&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Index.tcl The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA)]
  
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*[http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Village includes Salts Mill – houses the David Hockney exhibition]
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*[[See How Your Ancestors Lived]] 
  
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*[http://www.oldandinteresting.com/ Old and interesting - History of Domestic Paraphernalia] 
 
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==Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions==
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==Work and Trade Associations / Unions==
  
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*[http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Friendly Societies - a brief overview, with links to some specifiic societies]
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*[http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Affiliated Friendly Societies]
  
 
*[http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors]
 
*[http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors]
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*[http://www.unionhistory.info/matchworkers/browse.php Bryant & May Matchworkers Strike Fund Register 1888]
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*[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/catalogues/unions/ Trade Unions and Similar Organisations]
  
 
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==Political Parties and Movements==
 
==Political Parties and Movements==
  
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*[http://chartists.net/ Chartist Ancestors]
  
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*[http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM Give Women The Vote!]
  
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*[http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM SUFFRAGETTES Give Women the Vote]
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm Famous Suffragettes]  
  
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm Spartacus Educational Gives Names of the more well remembered ladies]
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*[http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm What Did The Suffragettes Do?]
  
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*[http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm What did the Suffragettes Do?]
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==The Industrial Revolution==
 
==The Industrial Revolution==
  
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*[http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Leeds industrial museum, which includes a history of industrialisation]
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*[http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum]  
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*[http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ A useful site for the cotton spinning and weaving industry]
 
  
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*[http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm Industrial History]
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*[http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm The History of The Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands 1700 -1830]
  
 
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==American History==
 
==American History==
  
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*[http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html Women in the American civil war, with links to other related sites]
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'''[http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/USA#Military_History See Separate page]'''
  
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*[http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm America in World War One]
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*[http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching]
 
*[http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching]
  
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*[http://www.hometown.aol.co.uk/BritHorseTrams/index.html Horse trams]
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottinghamshire_and_Derbyshire_Tramways_Company Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company.]
  
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*[http://www.lvta.co.uk/history.htm Horse cabs and Hackney carriages]
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*[http://www.lvta.co.uk/menu/lvta-taxi-history/ London Horse Cabs and Hackney Carriages History]  
  
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*[http://www.flying-bike.demon.co.uk/helistuff/heli.html Helicopters]
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*[http://asms.k12.ar.us/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/helicptr/webpage.htm The Evolution of the Helicopter]
  
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*[http://www.ba-gb.com/index.php?ps=8 A Brief History Of The Bicycle]
  
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*[http://www.alcester.dial.pipex.com/localpast/94au/oral.htm Oral Account of Coach Building, Early 1900s]
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*[http://www.railwayancestors.org.uk/ The Railway Ancestors Family History Society]
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*[http://web.onyxnet.co.uk/Auffret-onyxnet.co.uk/railways/railways.htm The North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway]
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*[http://www.seasidehistory.co.uk/index.html Seaside Travel and Nostalgia]
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*[http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/ukregistrations.html History Behind British Vehicle Registration System]
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*[http://www.britishtaxdiscs.co.uk/tax-disc-history.php History of The Road Fund Licence - Tax Disk]
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*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Transport Times Past - Transport]
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==Architecture and Old Buildings==
 
==Architecture and Old Buildings==
  
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*[http://www.churchplansonline.org/ Church Plans Online]
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*[http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, The First Garden City]
  
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*[http://www.cadbury.co.uk/CADBURYANDCHOCOLATE/OURSTORY/PHILAN/Pages/bvttoday.aspx Bournville Village (Founded by Richard and George Cadbury)]
  
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*[http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/page.asp?pageid=history Port Sunlight (founded by William Lever)]
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*[http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/ Port Sunlight founded by William Lever]
  
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*[http://www.jrf.org.uk/housingandcare/newearswick/ New Earswick (built by Joseph Rowntree)]
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*[http://www.jrht.org.uk/Your+community/Communities+by+location/New+Earswick New Earswick Village built by Joseph Rowntree]
  
 
*[http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/castles.html#A British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses]
 
*[http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/castles.html#A British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses]
  
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*[http://www.victorianstation.com/architecturemenu.htm Victorian Architecture, mostly American]
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*[http://www.victorianstation.com/architecturemenu.htm Victorian Architecture, (mostly American)]
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*[http://www.buildinghistory.org/ Researching Historic Buildings in The British Isles]
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*[http://www.victorianlondon.org/ Explore Victorian London]
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==The British Monarchy==
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*[http://www.royal.gov.uk/ The Offical Website of The British Monarchy]
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*[http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web]
  
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*[http://www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Researching historic buildings in the British Isles]
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*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Royal%20events Times Past - Royal Events]  
  
 
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==The Landed Gentry==
  
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*[http://www.sledmerehouse.com/ Sledmere House, Home of Sir Tatton Sykes]
  
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*[http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0601sykes.html Papers of Sykes Family- Held at Brynmor-Jones Library, The University of Hull.]
  
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*[http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/sledmere.htm The Sledmere Stud, Driffield, East Yorkshire]
  
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*[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]
  
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==The British Monarchy==
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[[image:Ark and pulpit Brighton Synagogue.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Ark and pulpit. Middle St Synagogue, Brighton]]
  
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*[http://www.saudades.org/ Saudades Portuguese Sephardic History]
  
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*[http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_9E The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names]
  
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*[http://www.joodsmonument.nl/article.php?thg_id=HELP&lang=en Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands]
  
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*[http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/ Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain]  
  
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*[http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry - The Anglo-Saxon and The Celtic Age]
  
 
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==Slavery==
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*[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/eabolition.asp International Slavery Museum]
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*[http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces The Transantlantic Slave Trade Database]
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm The Slave Trade - 1700-1930]
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*[http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas]
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*[http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html#A North American Slave Narratives]
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*[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
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*[http://www.brycchancarey.com/index.htm Slavery, Emancipation, and Abolition]
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/ Abolition of The Slave Trade]
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*[http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/atlantic.slave.trade.html Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade 1502 - 1841]
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*[http://www.discoveringbristol.org.uk/subIndex.php?sit_id=1 Bristol and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade]
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*[http://www.recoveredhistories.org/ Recovered Histories- Reawakening The Narratives of Enslavement, Resistance and the Fight For Freedom]
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*[http://www.abolition200.org.uk/ Abolition 200 The Bicentenary of the Abolition of The Slave Trade Act]
  
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*[http://compensations.plantations.bb/ Slave Compensation Claims]
 
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==Current Value of Old Money==
  
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*[http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry Celts Anglo-celtic]
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*[http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html Current value of old money]  
  
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*[http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/money.htm  Pre-decimal Sterling Coinage]
 
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*[http://www.britishfarthings.com/Tokens/17th-Century/17th-Century.html 17th-Century Farthing Trade Tokens]
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*[http://www.footrule.com/1/conversn/oengothr.htm?sr=homepage&ac=0 Old English Weights and Measures]
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*[http://home.clara.net/brianp/index.html Weights and Measures]
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*[http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html Nova Roma Guide to understanding Roman Numerals]
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*[http://www.roman-britain.org/numerals.htm Roman Britain. understanding Roman Numerals]
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*[http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html Day of Week Calculator]
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*[http://homepages.tesco.net/~jk.calisto/calisto/ A Calender Program for Western Europe AD 326 - 2999]
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*[http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html Ecclesiastical Calendar Calculator]
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*[http://www.londonlibraries.org/servlets/llil/archives London Local Studies Libraries and Archives]
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*[http://www.arewerelated.co.uk/ Are We Related? (A Forum)]
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*[http://www.weddingspastandpresent.co.uk/ Weddings Past and Present]
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*[http://home.snu.edu/~dwilliam/f97projects/contraception/history.htm a Brief History of Contraception]
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*[http://www.genealogyprinters.com Family Tree & Chart Printing]
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*[http://www.netserf.org/glossary/ Hypertext Medieval Glossary]
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*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Youth%20groups Tales from Youth Organisations]
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworths_Group Woolworths History]
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*[http://www.examstutor.com/business/resources/companyprofiles/marksandspencer/history.php The History of Marks and Spencer]
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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




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