Trades and Occupations

General

• Index of Old Occupations

• Dictionary of Ancient Occupations and Trades, Ranks, Offices and Titles

• Victorian Occupations

• Overseas Missionaries

• Nostalgic Memories of 20th Century British Life

• Women's Work

• Women as Warriors in History

• The lives and organisations of Yorkshire Women

• English Women's History

• Accountancy Ancestors, Who was who in accountancy for 1874-1965

• Glossary of Occupations in the Pottery industry

• Database of over 1500 Stoke-on-Trent Potters

• British and Irish Clock & Watch Makers

Craftsmen - Various

• Artists, Designers and Craftspeople

• The Blacksmiths Index

• Society of Brushmakers

• Corkcutters

• The Steam Engine Makers Database

• A Biographical Database of the British Chemical Community 1880-1970

• Database of Organists, Organ Builders Composers of Organ Music

• Piano-Makers

• Harpmakers and the Harp-Making Trade

• Musicians

• The Wheelwright & His Craft

• Kidwelly Tin Plate Workers

Domestic Service

• Victorian Servants

• Wikipedia: Domestic Service

• People in Your Victorian Home

• The Victorian Dictionary

• Upstairs, Downstairs The Lost Cousins website has added the facility to add the servants in a household.

Further reading:

• The Victorian Domestic Servant - Trevor May

• The Victorian House - Judith Flanders

Food and Drink Related

• A History of Bread Making and Milling

• JB Sumner's Brewing History Resources

• Sugar Refiners and Sugar Bakers

• British Milling

Printers and Allied Trades

• The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers - Wikipedia

• British Book Trade Index Index of names and brief trade and biographical details of people who were trading by 1851.

• The Scottish Booktrade Includes printers, bookbinders and stationers.

• The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers

Shoemakers

• Producing History: The Clickers Tale - England

• Norwich Boot & Shoe Industry

• Shoe Making Terms Explained

• Victorian London-Boot and Shoe Makers

• Cordwainers

Surgical - Doctors and Dentists

• British Dental Association Museum

• Tracing your Medical Ancestors

• Was Your Ancestor a Doctor?

• Surgeons & Physicians Licensed by The Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775

• Database of Australian Medical Pioneers From the 1700s-1875

Textiles

• Kidderminster's Carpet Heritage

• Textiles and Cotton Mills in Lancashire and Manchester

• The Lace-Making Industry of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire

• The Cotton Trade and Mill workers

• Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum, Notts

• The Cotton Industry in NW England

• Silk Weaving in Foleshill, Coventry

• History of the Woollen Cloth Industry in Trowbridge

• History of Framework Knitting

Public Service Occupations

• London and North Western Railway

• British Coastguards 1841-1901

• Irish Coastguards of Yesteryear

• The Blacksmiths' Index

• The Parish Clerk Index

• The British Postal Museum & Archive

See also Nursing wiki page.

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