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Emigration and Immigration Incorporating Shipping and Passenger Lists

Farming and Agriculture

Irish Political and Social History

Mining and Heavy Industry

Religion and the Clergy

Stonemasons

Trades and Occupations

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

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/ Records of patients at "The Retreat" (large Quaker mental hospital at York)

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.

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

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)

http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/ Date a Victorian Photo

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

http://www.parishregister.com/

http://www.watermenshall.org/history/ancestors

http://www.thamespilot.org.uk

http://www.geocities.com/watermenarchive

http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/

Jewish history

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

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

The Celts

http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry Celts Anglo-celtic