General History
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Contents
- 1 Related Pages
- 2 Schools and Education
- 3 Museums and Galleries
- 4 Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions
- 5 Political Parties and Movements
- 6 Hospitals, Asylums and Sanitoriums
- 7 The Industrial Revolution
- 8 American History
- 9 Civilian Transport
- 10 Architecture and Old Buildings
- 11 The Law and Social Legislation
- 12 The British Monarchy
- 13 Inns and Public Houses
- 14 Maps and Photography
- 15 The Landed Gentry
- 16 Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen
- 17 Jewish history
- 18 Workhouses
- 19 The Celts
Related Pages
- Emigration and Immigration Incorporating Shipping and Passenger Lists
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
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.lvta.co.uk/history.htm Horse cabs and Hackney carriages
- 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.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/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
- http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php Search by Placename, Postcode, Grid Reference, or plain text.
- http://www.leodis.net/ Leeds
- http://www.heanorhistory.org.uk/ Heanor area, Derbyshire
- http://www.francisfrith.com/pageloader.asp? Francis Frith collection
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.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.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://geocities.com/fountalnpen/index Cheshire Canals
Jewish history
- http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/londweb.htm Jewish history in London
Workhouses
- 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