General History

1 Schools and Education
2 Museums and Galleries
3 Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions
4 Political Parties and Movements
- 4.1 The Suffragettes
5 Hospitals, Asylums and Sanitoriums
6 The Industrial Revolution
7 American History
8 Irish Political and Social History
9 Civilian Transport
10 Architecture and Old Buildings
11 The Law and Social Legislation
12 Crime and Punishment
13 The British Monarchy
14 Emigration and Immigration
- 14.1 Highland Clearances
- 14.2 Links
15 Inns and Public Houses
16 Religion and the Clergy
17 Maps and Photography
18 The Landed Gentry
19 Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen
20 Jewish history
21 Stonemasons
22 Emigration in the 1800's
23 Farming and Agriculture
24 Shipping and Passenger Lists
25 Some Old Legal Terms
26 Workhouses
27 OLD OCCUPATIONS (miscellaneous)
28 Pre-historic Ancesters
29 Ireland
30 Clothing and Fashion
31 Mining and Heavy Industry
32 The Celts

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

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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

Crime and Punishment has been moved to its own page due to size considerations

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

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