General History

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

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

Irish Political and Social History

The Potato Famine

• http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/index.html

• http://www.humboldt1.com/~history/lexiso/

• http://www.victorianweb.org/history/famine.html

• http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/index.htm

Catholic Emancipation

• http://www.victorianweb.org/history/emancipation2.html

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

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Emancipation

• http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/ireland/peelcema.htm

Easter Rising 1916

• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1916_easter_rising.htm

• http://users.bigpond.net.au/kirwilli/1916/

• http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/history/east1916.html

• http://www.irelandforvisitors.com/articles/easter1916.htm

Misc.

• http://www2.cruzio.com/~sbarrett/mcollins.htm Michael Collins

• http://www.proni.gov.uk/ulstercovenant/index.html Ulster Covenant - Nearly half a million signatures and addresses of protestant men and women, who signed on the 28th of September 1912 in an objection to giving Ireland home rule.

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

Crime and Punishment

• http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con-wa1.html Western Australian Convicts

• http://uk.geocities.com/becky62655@btinternet.com/ Capital punishment in the 18th & 19th centuries.

• http://www.oldbaileyonline.org This has the transcripts of Old Bailey hearings from 1674-1834 (to be expanded). 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://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/roots/list_cri.htm History of Crime and detection with specific reference to Shropshire

• http://www.metaphor.dk/guillotine/Pages/Guillot.html The Guillotine Headquarters

• http://www.geocities.com/richard.clark32@btinternet.com/common.html Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth
  • The Commonwealth provides about 30% of the Worlds population comprising 54 member nations.
  • The term ABOLISHONIST is used for those nations who no longer have the death penalty and those retaining it are known as RETENTIONIST
  • This is the breakdown of how things stand at present.
    • 28 nations = retentionist
    • 16 nations = abolishionist
    • 9 nations = abolishonist in practice but remains in the penal code.
  • For a detailed explanation of where each country stands and when the last execution took place click on the link above

• http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/abolish.html The abolition of hanging in Britain

• http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/timeline.html Timeline of capital punishment in Britain

• http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hangmen.html The English hangmen from 1850 to 1964
  • George Smith from Dudley in the Midlands 1805-1874.
  • William Calcraft - Little Baddow, near Chelmsford, Essex 1800- 1879.
  • Thomas Askern of York 1816-1878.
  • William Marwood of Horncastle Lincolnshire 1820-1883.
  • George Meker or Incher – of Dudley.
  • Bartholomew Binns.
  • James Berry of Heckmondwike Yorkshire 1852-1913.
  • Thomas Henry Scott - Huddersfield.
  • James Billington of Farnworth near Bolton in Lancashire 1847-1901.
  • Thomas Billington 1872-1902.
  • William Billington 1873-1934.
  • John Billington 1880-1905.
  • Henry Pierrepoint 1874-1922 from BradfordYorkshire.
  • John Ellis of Rochdale Lancashire 1874-1932.
  • William Willis from Manchester. 187?-1939.
  • Thomas Pierrepoint 1870 - 1954.
  • Robert Wilson from Manchester.
  • Robert Baxter of Hertford.
  • Alfred Allen - Wolverhampton.
  • Thomas Mather Phillips from Farnworth near Bolton.
  • Stanley William Cross.
  • Albert Pierrepoint of Clayton Nr. Bradford Yorkshire 1905-1992.
  • Harry Kirk from Huntingdon.
  • Stephen Wade from Doncaster.
  • Harry Bertrum Allen from Manchester 1911-1992.
  • Robert Leslie Stewart from Chadderton Lancashire 1918-1988.

• http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/calendarofprisoners On-line database of inmates in Warwick County Prison between 1800 and 1900

• http://www.llgc.org.uk/sesiwn_fawr/index_s.htm Details of crimes, criminals and punishments from the prison files of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until 1830.

• http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bucks_prisoners/index.htm Details of inmates of Aylesbury prison in the 1870s. Includes details of the prisoner's crime and sentence, and, in some instances, his photograph.

• http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/contents.htm 19th Century Bedford Gaol

• http://www.inverarayjail.co.uk/index.htm A searchable database of prisoners in Inveraray prison and their details, including prisoners who were deported

• http://www.rootschat.com/history/hastings/content/view/46/30 Prisoners sentenced to transportation from Lewes Assizes between c1790 and c1850

• http://www.yeoldesussexpages.com/misc/genealog/gene.htm Important English trials 1649-1895

• http://www.geocities.com/stevenhortonuk/liverpoolmurders.html Murders in Liverpool

• http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hanging1.html The history of judicial hanging in Britain.

• http://www.genealogytoday.com/au/articles/convict_research.html Convicts tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Assizes

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/sessions.html Kent Quarter Sessions Indices

• http://www.yorkfamilyhistory.org.uk/assizes.htm An index of over 8000 prisoners brought to trial at York Assizes between 1785 and 1851

• http://www.wirksworth.org.uk/CRIME.htm A database of persons tried at the Derbyshire Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions 1770-1828.

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.

Emigration and Immigration

Links

• http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ Ulster ancestry has a lot of information on its free pages, both passenger lists and some lists of emigrants...

• http://www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/ A Scottish emigration database

Highland Clearances

For those interested in the Highland Clearances there is loads of info here - I only looked at 6 of them and have already found a missing person.

If you google "Metagama" you will get some ship passenger lists from 1920's. This is a small example - 404 names on this list mostly from Scotland. Departed Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, June 22, 1923 Departed Belfast, Ireland on Saturday, June 23, 1923

Trans-Atlantic Sailing to Quebec and Montreal, Canada, July 5, 1923 THIS was a C.P.R. liner, come to Lewis to take on those whom Manny Shinwell later described in Parliament as "the best of Scottish manhood". The Metagama sailed on Saturday the 21st of April, 1923. From all over Lewis, they crowded into Stornoway on the Friday. Cromwell Street echoed with the banter and excited anticipation of those about to leave, mingling with the sadness of those who had come to say goodbye. (This is From West Side historical Society on Google - out of the 300 who sailed that day only 20 were NOT young men, the average age was 22.) It decimated the Island Communities and to this day they have not recovered.