General History

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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

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.

Emigration and Immigration

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.

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

http://www.ellisisland.org/?gclid=COanpMTCtYcCFUxqMAod7jCcRA Ellis Island

http://www.british-genealogy.com/resources/county/ntt/emigration/southafrica-1820/nttsa.htm Nottinghamshire Colonists to South Africa 1820

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

Religion and the Clergy

http://theclergydatabase.org.uk/ The Clergy of the Church of England Database

http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/cfhs/index.htm Catholic family history

http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data1/dg/methodist/methguid.html Methodists Archive and Research Centre

http://www.methodist.org.uk/static/factsheets/fs_primitiveandwesleyan.htm The Methodist Church – factsheets (Wesleyans and primitive Methodists)

http://www.answers.com/topic/primitive-methodism Primitive Methodism

http://www.crockford.org.uk/ Crockford’s Clerical Directory: a directory of the clergy of the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church,

http://www.kinderlibrary.ac.nz John Kinder Theological Library

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends Religious Society of Friends - Wikipedia

http://members.lycos.co.uk/JennySteel/quakers.html Famous Quakers

http://www.rootsweb.com/~engqfhs/ Quaker Family History Society

http://www.hull.ac.uk/oldlib/archives/quaker/bihrlink.htm Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/quaker/quakint1.htm Quaker Archives Database, West & North Yorkshire

http://www.special-coll.bham.ac.uk/ The archives for the Church Missionary Society are kept at Birmingham University Library in their Special Collections. The catalogue can be searched online here

http://www.jgsgb.org.uk The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain

http://eagle.cch.kcl.ac.uk:8080/cce/index.html Another database of Clergy of the Church of England

http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/librariesandarchives/familyhistory/index.html Anglican Sources for Tracing your Family History

http://www.catholic-history.org.uk

http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk

http://www.scmo.org.uk/bishops_conference/diocese/today

http://home.att.net/~Local_Catholic

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hadland/rec.html

http://www.churches-online.org.uk/salfordarchives

http://www.stphilipsbooks.co.uk/crs.htm

http://www.catholic-library.org.uk

http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/famil2.pdf.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/LatinNotes.html

http://www.pro.gov.uk/leaflets/Riindex.asp

http://www.swinhope.myby.co.uk/NRO/RCatholic.html

http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/nra2.htm

http://www.catholic-heritage.net/archives.htm

http://www.scan.org.uk/aboutus/indexonline.htm

http://www.sierratel.com/colinf/genuki/CAV/RC.htm

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/northowram

http://www.cartes.freeuk.com/history/catholic.htm

http://www.otherdays.com

http://www.stbedes.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/br

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)

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

Jewish history

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

Shipping and Passenger Lists

http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html Sources for transcribed passenger records and indexes

http://www.theshipslist.com/ The Ships List

http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=23 Unassisted Immigration to Victoria

http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=24 Assisted British Immigration

http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=42 Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports 1852-1876

http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/ Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters

http://www.blaxland.com/ozships/plist.htm Convictions Australian Shipping

http://www.list.jaunay.com/ausnzpassengers/ Gateway page to Online AUSNZ Passenger Lists

http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/assisted_immigrants_1839-96_366.asp NSW Assisted Immigrants 1839-96

http://members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html Passenger lists on the internet

http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/research/index/immigration.asp#immigrationindexes Queensland Indexes - Immigration 1848-1884

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/020110_e.html Child emigration from Great Britain to Canada between 1869 and the early 1930s

http://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/emigration.htm Highlands and Islands to Australia

http://www.nationaalarchief.nl/emigranten/en/ Searchable database of Emigrants from the Netherlands to Australia between 1946 and 1991

http://www.geneaknowhow.net/digi/pass1.html Dutch passenger lists pre-1736

http://www.geneaknowhow.net/digi/pass2.html Dutch passenger lists after 1736

Some Old Legal Terms

Some of those funny words that we find on old wills etc.

MOIETY......... A half .....part..... portion or share of property etc. Note: Such is usually based on family or unilateral descent.

GAVELKIND...... Equal shares among qualifying heirs.

ECHEATS......... Reversion of land to the manor etc. under feudal tenure when lacking legal heirs.

MESSUAGE...... House or dwelling.

SIEZED............ To be in legal possession of, from the feudal concept of "seisin"

INTER ALIA..... Among other things

DEMESNE..........Land of a feudal lord retained for his own use i.e the grounds of a Mansion etc.

TERRIER........... A form of Register of Land belonging to an estate etc..

FEALTY............The fidelity owed to a Feudal Lord

FRANKPLEDGE....Anglo Saxon system in which 10 households or tithings were grouped together and became responsible for each others behaviour or conduct.

CAPITE.............means the Tenant held the property in 'Capite' for the landlord to whom he paid rents

ATTAINDER........Common law - The state of an offender who had been sentenced for a capital offence.

ATTAINTED..... disgraced......... or to pass sentence of attainder against....

ENFEOFFED.... to invest with a Feudal estate or fee.

DEVISED.......... Give land or property in a Will. Or to plan and contrive.

DEFEASANCE ...... Forfeiture or annulment of something or some legal right (usually because some original condition has not been complied with; e.g. not paying the mortgage)

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

Ireland

Before the last ice-age, there was no Irish Sea, English Channel or North Sea, Europe was all one land mass and the fairly sparse population was of European origin . The encroaching ice pushed out most humans although one or two tribes may have held out on the West Coast of Ireland where the gulf stream raised the temperature, probably to something like Alaska's today. After the ice-age, about 10,000 years ago, the melting ice caps raised the sea level and created the present islands which were populated by European Celts who were gradually pushed westward by fresh influxes from Europe (mainly Germanics) and Scandinavia. Ireland in particular received quite a lot of Spanish. Trade by sea flourished so there were other additions to the gene pool, e.g. Viking, and later Spanish.

The island of Ierne (Ireland) was settled by a Milesian race, who came from Scythia (Middle East) by way of Spain, and established the Kingdom of Tara about 500 BC. The supremacy of the Ardri (High King) of Tara was acknowledged by eight lesser kingdoms (Munster, Connaught. Allech, Auriel, Ulidea, Meath, Leinster and Ossory) ruled by descendants of the eight sons of Miled.

Although little is known concerning the earliest inhabitants of Ireland, there are many traces of Neolithic man throughout the island. In the later Bronze Age a Celtic race of Goidels (Gaels) appears to have invaded the island and in the early Iron Age Brythons from South Britain effected settlements in the South East, whilst Picts from North Britain established similar settlements in the North. Towards the close of the Roman occupation of Britain (they never got to Ireland), the dominant tribe in the island was that of the Scoti, who afterwards established themselves in Scotland. Gypsies, a nomadic race, originally from India, are also well represented. The overall population remained sparse, under 3 million until the 20th century

With the separation of Britain, in the reign of Henry Vlll, from the Roman Catholic Church, Spain aggressively attempted to isolate England and sought to strengthen ties with the rest of Europe, including Ireland which remained predominately RC, culminating in a disastrous attempted invasion of England in 1588. The Armada came to grief after being forced through the English Channel, into the North Sea and rounding Scotland. It is believed that hundreds of Spanish sailors got ashore on the Irish coast and disappeared inland.

Mining and Heavy Industry

http://www.cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Coal-Mining History Resource Centre

http://www.ncm.org.uk/ The National Coal Mining Museum

www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/DisastersList.htm Welsh Mining Disasters

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Llangynwyd/slaters.1880.html List of mine owners and collieries from Slater's 1880 directory in the Maesteg/Llynfi valley area

http://www.dmm.org.uk Durham Mining Museum - virtual museam

http://www.durham-miner.org.uk The Durham Miners' Project - multi-media web stie of mining in the durham area recorded by the communities themselves.

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~Rburt/MinHistNet/ Mining Histroy Network - information exchange, discussion group; if this does not conect, go to the Exeter University site and search under mining.