Difference between revisions of "Trades and Occupations"

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*[http://www.rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html Index of Old Occupations]
 
*[http://www.rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html Index of Old Occupations]
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*[http://www.census1891.com/occupations.htm Victorian Occupations]
 
*[http://www.census1891.com/occupations.htm Victorian Occupations]
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*[http://www.mundus.ac.uk/index.html Overseas Missionaries]
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*[http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/index.asp?webType=0 The London Gazette]
  
  
 
'''Shoemakers'''
 
'''Shoemakers'''
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*[http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?Document=400.740.50x1 Norwich Boot & Shoe Industry]
 
*[http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?Document=400.740.50x1 Norwich Boot & Shoe Industry]
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*[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1594_273/ai_53450031/pg_1 Producing history: the clicker's tale - England]
 
*[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1594_273/ai_53450031/pg_1 Producing history: the clicker's tale - England]
  
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'''Textiles'''
  
  
'''Textiles'''
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*[http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/ History of the Woollen Cloth Industry in Trowbridge - includes a glossary of old occupations in the industry]
  
 
*[http://www.stevengraphs.com/thomstevandh.html Silk Weaving in Foleshill, Coventry]
 
*[http://www.stevengraphs.com/thomstevandh.html Silk Weaving in Foleshill, Coventry]
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*[http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ The Cotton Industry in NW England]
 
*[http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ The Cotton Industry in NW England]
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'''Metalworking'''
 
'''Metalworking'''
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*[http://www.kidwellyhistory.co.uk/Industry/TinWorkers.htm Kidwelly Tin Plate Workers]
 
*[http://www.kidwellyhistory.co.uk/Industry/TinWorkers.htm Kidwelly Tin Plate Workers]
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'''Sports'''
  
 
 
'''Sports'''
 
  
 
*[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/index.html Cricketers past and present]
 
*[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/index.html Cricketers past and present]
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'''Surgical'''
  
'''Surgical'''
 
  
 
*[http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/index.html Nursing]
 
*[http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/index.html Nursing]
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'''Food related'''
  
  
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*[http://www.mawer.clara.net/intro.html Sugar Refiners and Sugar Bakers]
  
'''Awaiting Classification'''
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*[http://www.millsarchive.com/9family/millers.aspx British Milling]
  
*[http://www.mawer.clara.net/intro.html Sugar Refiners and Sugar Bakers]
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*[http://www.botham.co.uk/bread/index.htm A History of Bread Making and Milling]
  
*[http://www.open.ac.uk/ou5/Arts/chemists/ A biographical database of the British Chemical Community 1880-1970]
 
  
*[http://www.millsarchive.com/9family/millers.aspx British Milling]
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'''Clock, watches and Scientific instruments'''
  
*[http://www.botham.co.uk/bread/index.htm A History of Bread Making and Milling]
 
  
 
*[http://www.clockswatches.com/ British and Irish Clock & Watch Makers]
 
*[http://www.clockswatches.com/ British and Irish Clock & Watch Makers]
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*[http://www.clockmakers.archivist.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page Clock and Watch makers]
 
*[http://www.clockmakers.archivist.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page Clock and Watch makers]
  
*[http://www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/ BRITISH BOOK TRADE INDEX] Index of names and brief trade and biographical details of people who were in the book trade in England and Wales and were trading by 1851.<br>
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'''Printing industry'''
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*[http://www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/ BRITISH BOOK TRADE INDEX] Index of names and brief trade and biographical details of people who were in the book trade in England and Wales and were trading by 1851.
  
 
*[http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/resources/sbti/index.html THE SCOTTISH BOOK TRADE] Includes printers, bookbinders and stationers.
 
*[http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/resources/sbti/index.html THE SCOTTISH BOOK TRADE] Includes printers, bookbinders and stationers.
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'''Craftsmen - various'''
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*[http://www.apr.ac.uk/artists/home.htm Artists, Designers and Craftspeople]
 
*[http://www.apr.ac.uk/artists/home.htm Artists, Designers and Craftspeople]
  
 
*[http://www.organ-biography.info/ Database of ORGANISTS, ORGAN BUILDERS and COMPOSERS OF ORGAN MUSIC]
 
*[http://www.organ-biography.info/ Database of ORGANISTS, ORGAN BUILDERS and COMPOSERS OF ORGAN MUSIC]
 
*[http://www.mundus.ac.uk/index.html Overseas Missionaries]
 
  
 
*[http://www.brushmakers.com/ Brushmaking]
 
*[http://www.brushmakers.com/ Brushmaking]
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*[http://www.open.ac.uk/ou5/Arts/chemists/ A biographical database of the British Chemical Community 1880-1970]
  
*[http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/index.asp?webType=0 The London Gazette]
 
  
*[http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/ History of the Woollen Cloth Industry in Trowbridge - includes a glossary of old occupations in the industry]
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'''Occuaptions within the community'''
  
 
*[http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/index.php?PHPSESSID=a29591eeff7603e61bcc5ef66aedd10b The Railways Archive]
 
*[http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/index.php?PHPSESSID=a29591eeff7603e61bcc5ef66aedd10b The Railways Archive]

Revision as of 13:32, 6 June 2007

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Shoemakers



Textiles



Metalworking



Ceramics



Sports



Surgical



Food related



Clock, watches and Scientific instruments



Printing industry


  • BRITISH BOOK TRADE INDEX Index of names and brief trade and biographical details of people who were in the book trade in England and Wales and were trading by 1851.


Craftsmen - various



Occuaptions within the community


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