Difference between revisions of "General History"

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.

The British Monarchy

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

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.

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 ==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.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.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.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
+*[http://www.met.police.uk/history/index.htm History of the Metropolitan Police]