General History

Pathé News Online

Until 1970 cinemas all over Britain showed Pathé newsreels. Now you can view the entire collection, over 3500 hours, online at:

• Pathé News

It is necessary to register, but whilst there is a charge for high-resolution copies of the films you can view low resolution versions free of charge. Almost all are in black and white, and the very earliest footage is silent.

The earliest films date from 1896! Pathé display a Top Twenty on their site - the most popular when we checked was a film of the Titanic, but an early favourite of ours is the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901.

• Historical Reports

• British History Online

Related Pages

• Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen

• Canals and Canal Carriers

• Charitable Organisations

• Costume Past and Present

• Crime and Punishment

• Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers

• Law and Order

• Emigration and Immigration Incorporating Shipping and Passenger Lists

• Entertainment

• Fairground/Showmen/Travellers

• Farming and Agriculture

• Inns and Public Houses

• Irish Political and Social History

• Maps and Photography

• Maritime

• Mining and Heavy Industry

• Military

• Railways

• Religion and the Clergy

• Stonemasons

• Trades and Occupations

• Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanatoriums

Schools and Education

• Education acts – history & politicians
• History of State Education

Museums and Galleries

• Museum of The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - Salisbury
• Open air museum,at Beamish, County Durham reflecting northern life in the 1800s and early 1900s.
• Eden Camp Malton, North Yorkshire. Theme museum, centred on the history of WW2.
• Saltaire, Bradford Factory and village, built by millowner & philanthropist Sir Titus Salt.
• Village includes Salts Mill Houses the David Hockney exhibition.
• History of the Woollen Cloth in Trowbridge Includes a glossary of occupations in the industry.
• The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA)

• See How Your Ancestors Lived This is a random collection of recommended places to visit.

Work and Trade Associations / Unions

• Friendly Societies A brief overview, with links to some specific societies.
• Trade Union Ancestors
• Bryant & May Matchworkers Strike Fund Register 1888

Political Parties and Movements

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page Database of MPs showing their constituencies and dates of birth and death (going back to the 17th century). The Peerages of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

The Chartist Movement

• Chartist Ancestors

The Suffragettes

• Give Women the Vote
• Spartacus Educational Gives names of the more well remembered suffragettes.
• What did the Suffragettes Do?

The Industrial Revolution

• Leeds industrial museum Includes a history of industrialisation.
• A useful site for the cotton spinning and weaving industry
• Industrial History

American History

• Women in the American Civil War with links to other related sites.
• America in World War One

Civilian Transport

• Carriages and Coaching
• Horse trams
• Horse cabs and Hackney carriages
• Helicopters
• Bicycles
• Oral account of Coach building, Early 1900s
• The Railway Workers Family History Society
• The Growth and Impact of Railways
• Seaside Travel and Nostalgia
• History behind British Vehicle Registration System
• History of the Road Fund Licence - Tax Disk
• Times Past - Transport

Architecture and Old Buildings

• Letchworth, the first Garden City
• Bourneville village (founded by Cadburys)
• Port Sunlight (founded by William Lever)
• New Earswick (built by Joseph Rowntree)
• British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses
• Victorian Architecture, mostly American
• Researching historic buildings in the British Isles

The British Monarchy

• Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web
• Tribal pages This site uses the British royal family for its family tree tutorial. If you think you have royal connections it might be worth browsing.
• Times Past - Royal Events Elizabeth II Coronation 1953/ Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee 1977/ George V Coronation 1911/George V Silver Jubilee 1935/George VI Coronation 1937

The Landed Gentry

• Sledmere House and Gardens website
• Papers of Sykes family held at Brynmor-Jones library, The University of Hull.
• The Sledmere Stud
• Churches restored by Sir Tatton Sykes
• Sir Mark Sykes & the Waggoners Reserve (with link to attestation details of individual men)
• A database of country houses in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and some of the surrounding islands, with brief histories.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page Database of MPs showing their constituencies and dates of birth and death (going back to the 17th century). The Peerages of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

Jewish History

• Jewish history in London

• Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies

• JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy

• Portuguese Sephardic History

• The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names Names and biographical details of half of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

• Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands

• Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain <faulty link

The Celts

• Family Ancestry Celts, Anglo-Celtic.

Slavery

• The Slave Trade - Slave Accounts

• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas

• North American Slave Narratives

• Slavery The transatlantic slave trade, abolition movement, time line of key events.

• The Slaave Era Insurance Policies Register

• Slavery, Emancipation, and Abolition

• Abolition of the slave trade

• Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade 1502 - 1841

• The struggle to end the transatlantic slave trade

Current Value of Old Money

• Current Value of Old Money

• Pre-decimal Sterling site

Uncategorised

• Day of Week Calculator

• A calender program for Western Europe AD 326 - 2999

• London Local Studies Libraries and Archives

• Are We Related? (A forum)

• Weddings Past and Present

• Family Tree & Chart Printing

• Hypertext Medieval Glossary

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