General History

Historical Reports

• Historical Reports

Much of the info is background stuff (and probably won't help you find ancestors), but the essays section has some fascinating stuff - e.g. about the 1850 cholera epidemic - which will give insight into how life was.

Related Pages

• 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

• Farming and Agriculture

• Irish Political and Social History

• Mining and Heavy Industry

• Military

• Religion and the Clergy

• Stonemasons

• Trades and Occupations

• Inns and Public Houses

• Maps and Photography

• Maritime

• Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen

• Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanitoriums

• Entertainment

• Fairground/Showmen/Travellers

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 1800’s and early 1900’s

• 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

Work and Trade Associations / Unions

• Friendly Societies - a brief overview, with links to some specifiic societies

• Trade Union Ancestors

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

• SUFFRAGETTES Give Women the Vote

• Spartacus Educational Gives Names of the more well remembered ladies

• What did the Suffragettes Do?

The Industrial Revolution

• Leeds industrial museum, which 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 Coachbuilding, Early 1900’s

• The Railway Workers Family History Society

Architecture and Old Buildings

• Letchworth, the first Garden City

• Bourneville village (founded by the 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 uses the British royal family for its family tree tutorial If you think you have royal connections it might be worth browsing.

The Landed Gentry

• Sledmere House and Gardens website

• Biographies of family members; papers of Sykes family held at Brynmor-Jones library, University of Hull

• The Sledmere stud

• Churches restored by Sir Tatton Sykes

• Sir Mark Sykes & the Wagoners 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

The Celts

• Family Ancestry Celts Anglo-celtic

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