Trades and Occupations

General

• Index of Old Occupations

• Victorian Occupations

• Overseas Missionaries

• The London Gazette

Shoemakers

• Norwich Boot & Shoe Industry

• Shoe making terms explained

• Victorian London-Boot and shoe makers

• Producing history: the clicker's tale - England

Textiles

• History of the Woollen Cloth Industry in Trowbridge - includes a glossary of old occupations in the industry

• Silk Weaving in Foleshill, Coventry

• Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum, Notts

• Textiles and Cotton Mills in Lancashire and Manchester

• Kidderminster's Carpet Heritage

• The Lace-Making Industry of Bedforshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire

• The Cotton Trade and Mill workers

• The Cotton Industry in NW England

Metalworking

• Kidwelly Tin Plate Workers

Ceramics

• Database of over 1500 Stoke-on-Trent Potters

• Glossary of Occupations in the Pottery industry

Sports

• Cricketers past and present

• Database of over 50,000 cricketers and officials

• Pre-war British Boxing

Surgical

• Royal College of Nursing Tracing Nurses/Nursing Records

• Nursing

• Database of Australian medical pioneers from the 1700s-1875

• Surgeons and physicians licensed by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775

Food related

• Sugar Refiners and Sugar Bakers

• British Milling

• A History of Bread Making and Milling

Clock, watches and Scientific instruments

• British and Irish Clock & Watch Makers

• Clock and Watch makers

Printing industry

• BRITISH BOOK TRADE INDEX Index of names and brief trade and biographical details of people who were in the book trade in England and Wales and were trading by 1851.

• THE SCOTTISH BOOK TRADE Includes printers, bookbinders and stationers.

Craftsmen - various

• Artists, Designers and Craftspeople

• Database of ORGANISTS, ORGAN BUILDERS and COMPOSERS OF ORGAN MUSIC

• Brushmaking

• A biographical database of the British Chemical Community 1880-1970

Public Service Occupations

• The Railways Archive

• British Coastguards 1841-1901

• Irish Coastguards of Yesteryear

• The Blacksmiths' Index

• The Life of Victorian Servants

• Lighthouse Personnel in England, Wales and the Channel Islands 1790-1911

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