General History

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• Trades and Occupations

Schools and Education

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Education acts – history & politicians

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education

Museums and Galleries

• http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 Museum of The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - Salisbury

• http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Open air museum,at Beamish, Couty Durham, reflecting Northern life in 1800’s and early 1900’s

• http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire - Theme museum, centred on the history of WW2

• 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.saltsmill.org.uk/ Village includes Salts Mill – houses the David Hockney exhibition

Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions

• http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Friendly Societies - a brief overview, with links to some specifiic societies

• http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors

Political Parties and Movements

The Suffragettes

• http://www.cjbooks.demon.co.uk/suffrage.htm

• http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm

• http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm

Hospitals, Asylums and Sanitoriums

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/MAB/MAB.shtml Establishment of hospitals, asylums, hospital ships, smallpox & TB

• http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/english_asylums.htm Asylum information

• http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/search.asp TNA's Hospital Database search facility

• http://www.coram.org.uk/heritage.htm CORAM Foundling Hospital Association

• http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/ Records of patients at "The Retreat" (large Quaker mental hospital at York)

The Industrial Revolution

• http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Leeds industrial museum, which includes a history of industrialisation

• http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ A useful site for the cotton spinning and weaving industry

• http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm Industrial History

American History

• http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html Women in the American civil war, with links to other related sites

• http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm America in World War One

Civilian Transport

• http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching

• http://www.hometown.aol.co.uk/BritHorseTrams/index.html Horse trams

• http://www.lvta.co.uk/history.htm Horse cabs and Hackney carriages

• http://www.flying-bike.demon.co.uk/helistuff/heli.html Helicopters

• http://www.ba-gb.com/index.php?ps=8 Bicycles

Architecture and Old Buildings

• http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, the first Garden City

• http://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/history_cadbury/social_pioneers/bournville_village.htm Bourneville village (founded by the Cadburys)

• http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/page.asp?pageid=history Port Sunlight (founded by William Lever)

• http://www.jrf.org.uk/housingandcare/newearswick/ New Earswick (built by Joseph Rowntree)

• http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/castles.html#A British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses

• http://www.victorianstation.com/architecturemenu.htm Victorian Architecture, mostly American

• http://www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Researching historic buildings in the British Isles

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.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.met.police.uk/history/index.htm History of the Metropolitan Police

The British Monarchy

• http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web

• 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.

Inns and Public Houses

• http://www.norfolkpubs.co.uk/ Norfolk Public Houses

• http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/pubs.html Pubs in Victorian London

• http://www.1881pubs.com/ Pubs in 1881

• http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/towns/worcester/worcestershire/ Worcester pubs

• http://www.bristolslostpubs.com Pubs lost in Bristol

• http://londonpublichouse.com/ London & Essex Pubs History & Trade Directory

• http://www.hillfields.org.uk/History/Pubs/Index.htm Pubs in Hillfields, Coventry

• http://www.midlandspubs.co.uk Midlands pubs

• http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/pubs/index.html Warwickshire pubs

• http://www.sfowler.force9.co.uk/page_27.htm Tracing ancestors who worked in pubs

• http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Dir/StaffsPubs1818.html Staffordshire pubs

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/ZOtherPapers/Index/PubsInnsBeer.html Index to Pubs Inns and Beer Houses

• http://www.edinburgh247.com/edinburgh-pub-guide.asp A modern guide but handy list of Edinburgh pubs

• http://www.ensignewart.demon.co.uk/ensign/html/history_of_the_pub.html The story of the Ensign Ewart pub

• http://www.oldnotts.co.uk/sutton/pubs/others.htm Notts Pubs

• http://www.pubhistory.freeserve.co.uk/ The Pub History Society

• http://www.easywell.co.uk/pubs/ Gloucestershire Pubs and Breweries

Maps and Photography

• http://www.motco.com/MAP/ -Historic maps of London – most have indexes of place names

• http://www.motco.com/print/ Historic prints of London and other parts of Britain

• http://www.motco.com/panoramas/ Panoramic views of London and the Thames

• http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/oldmap/index.asp Lancashire County Council - Environment Directorate: Old Maps

• http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ Historical map archive searchable by place name, address or coordinate (OS Grid Reference)

• http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/index.html Maps of Scotland 1560-1928

• http://www.nls.uk/pont/index.html Ponts Maps of Scotland

• http://www.nls.uk/maps/military/index.html Military Maps of Scotland (18th century)

• http://www.nls.uk/maps/townplans/index.html Ordnance Survey town plans 1847-1895

• http://www.countyviews.com/

• http://www.countyviews.com/beds/church.htm Bedfordshire Church Photographs

• http://www.countyviews.com/beds/index.htm Bedfordshire Town and Village Photographs

• http://www.countyviews.com/bucks/church.htm Buckinghamshire Church Photographs

• http://www.countyviews.com/bucks/index.htm Buckinghamshire Town and Village Photographs

• http://www.countyviews.com/oxford/index.htm Oxfordshire Photos (very few at the moment)

• http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/ Date a Victorian Photo

The Landed Gentry

• http://www.sledmerehouse.com/intro.html Sledmere House and Gardens website

• 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.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/sledmere.htm The Sledmere stud

• http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/leisure/tourism/pdf/leaflets/sykes_trail.pdf Churches restored by Sir Tatton Sykes

• 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.

Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen

• http://www.blisworth.org.uk/images/index.html

• http://www.canals.com/resource.htm

• http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/collection/family-history.htm

• http://www.hnboc.org.uk/ Narrowboat

• http://www.bargeman.co.uk/ Bargemen

• http://www.silsden.net/useful/Leeds_andLiverpool_canal_timeline.htm Leeds and Liverpool Canal

• http://www.virtualwaterways.co.uk/Home.html

• http://www.canaljunction.com/craft/index.htm Boats and Barges

• http://www.canaljunction.com/canal/boat_people.htm Canal People

• http://www.geocities.com/thameswatermen/index.htm The Thames Watermen - 1555 to 1700

• http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.142/chapterId/2955/Thames-Watermen.html History of London Watermen

• http://www.parishregister.com/

• http://www.watermenshall.org/history/ancestors

• http://www.thamespilot.org.uk

• http://www.geocities.com/watermenarchive

• http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk

• http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/

• http://www.horsedrawnboats.co.uk

• http://townsleyb.members.beeb.net/Boatmen/

• http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/collection/family-history.htm

• http://www.canals.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm

• http://www.mike-stevens.co.uk/maps/index.htm

• http://www.virtualwaterways.co.uk

• http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/external/rchs

• http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/jim.shead/index.htm

• http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra

• http://geocities.com/fountalnpen/index Cheshire Canals

Jewish history

• http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/londweb.htm Jewish history in London

Workhouses

• http://www.workhouses.org.uk/

• http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/StMarylebone/

• http://www5.surreycc.gov.uk/dtcgi/nph-dtweb.exe?DThs=SurreyNoOrderNaturalLanguageFrame.htm Surrey History Centre Collections Catalogue

• http://www.highlittletonhistory.org.uk/ High Littleton & Hallatrow History and Parish Records

The Celts

• http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry Celts Anglo-celtic