General History

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• 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

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

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• 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

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

City of London Police

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Hampshire Police

Records held at Winchester Record Office.

These include personnel service records, which can include personal descriptions, dates and places of birth as well as records of activity in the Force (including disciplinary offences and reason for leaving the police).

Reference numbers of relevant documents can be identified by using their online catalogue searching tool, CALM, using keywords such as "police" and "constabulary".

Metropolitan Police

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Surrey Police

Records held at Guildford Police Museum.

Can be contacted by phone, post and e-mail. Detail to follow.

The Law and Social Legislation

• 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

• History of the Metropolitan Police

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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