General History

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Schools and Education


Museums and Galleries


Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions


Political Parties and Movements

The Suffragettes


Hospitals, Asylums and Sanitoriums


The Industrial Revolution


American History


Irish Political and Social History

The Potato Famine
Catholic Emancipation
Easter Rising 1916
Misc.


Civilian Transport


Architecture and Old Buildings


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.



Major Historical Events of the British Isles


Crime and Punishment

  • 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://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/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.



The British Monarchy


Emigration and Immigration

Links


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.


Inns and Public Houses


Overseas Publications


Religion and the Clergy


Maps and Photography


The Landed Gentry


Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen


Jewish history


Stonemasons


Emigration in the 1800's


Farming and Agriculture


Shipping and Passenger Lists


Some Old Legal Terms


Workhouses


OLD OCCUPATIONS (miscellaneous)


Pre-historic Ancesters


Ireland


Clothing and Fashion


Mining and Heavy Industry


The Celts