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=='''Historical Reports''' ==
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==The Family Tree Forum Timeline==
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Our ancestors (like us) were shaped by the world they lived in and the sudden movement of a family, for example, from their birthplace to another part of the country could be explained by what was happening in the wider world.
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'''[[The Timeline]]''' will help you to put the personal life of your ancestors in context with the social and political situation of the time.
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==Pathé News Online==
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Until 1970 cinemas all over Britain showed Pathé newsreels. Now you can view the entire collection, over 3500 hours, online at:
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*[http://www.britishpathe.com Pathé News]
  
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*[http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/ Historical Reports]
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It is necessary to register, but whilst there is a charge for high-resolution copies of the films you can view low resolution versions free of charge. Almost all are in black and white, and the very earliest footage is silent.
  
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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.
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The earliest films date from 1896! Pathé display a Top Twenty on their site - the most popular when we checked was a film of the Titanic, but an early favourite of ours is the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901.
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*[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ British History Online]
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*[[Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen]]
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*[[Evacuation_and_Evacuees#British_Home_Children|British Home Children]]
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==Schools and Education==
  
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Parliamentary Legislation]
  
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education]
  
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==Museums and Galleries==
  
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*[http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum - The Story of the Infantry of Berkshire and Wiltshire]
  
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*[http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Beamish Open Air Museum, County Durham. Northern Life in The 1800s & Early 1900s.]
  
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*[http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp Theme Museum Malton, North Yorkshire. Centred on The History of WW2.]
  
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/saltaire.shtml Saltaire, Bradford. Factory & Village Built by Millowner & Philanthropist Sir Titus Salt]
  
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*[http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Salts Mill - Home to The David Hockney Exhibition.]
  
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*[http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/ History of Woollen Cloth in Trowbridge]
  
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*[http://catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk/DServe/DServe.exe?dsqServer=localhost&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Index.tcl The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA)]
  
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*[[See How Your Ancestors Lived]] 
  
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*[http://www.oldandinteresting.com/ Old and interesting - History of Domestic Paraphernalia] 
 
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==Schools and Education==
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*[http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Affiliated Friendly Societies]
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*[http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors]
  
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* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Education acts – history & politicians]
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*[http://www.unionhistory.info/matchworkers/browse.php Bryant & May Matchworkers Strike Fund Register 1888]
  
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education]
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*[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/catalogues/unions/ Trade Unions and Similar Organisations]
  
 
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==Political Parties and Movements==
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*[http://chartists.net/ Chartist Ancestors]
  
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*[http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 Museum of The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - Salisbury]
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*[http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM Give Women The Vote!]
  
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*[http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Open air museum,at Beamish, County Durham, reflecting Northern life in 1800’s and early 1900’s]
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm Famous Suffragettes]  
  
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*[http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire - Theme museum, centred on the history of WW2]
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*[http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm What Did The Suffragettes Do?]
  
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/saltaire.shtml Saltaire, Bradford – factory and village, built by millowner & philanthropist Sir Titus Salt.]
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*[http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Village includes Salts Mill – houses the David Hockney exhibition]
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==The Industrial Revolution==
  
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*[http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/ History of the Woollen Cloth in Trowbridge - includes a glossary of occupations in the industry]
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*[http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum]
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*[http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm The History of The Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands 1700 -1830]
  
 
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==American History==
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'''[http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/USA#Military_History See Separate page]'''
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==Civilian Transport==
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*[http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching]
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottinghamshire_and_Derbyshire_Tramways_Company Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company.]
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*[http://www.lvta.co.uk/menu/lvta-taxi-history/ London Horse Cabs and Hackney Carriages History]
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*[http://asms.k12.ar.us/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/helicptr/webpage.htm The Evolution of the Helicopter]
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*[http://www.ba-gb.com/index.php?ps=8 A Brief History Of The Bicycle]
  
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*[http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Friendly Societies - a brief overview, with links to some specifiic societies]
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*[http://www.alcester.dial.pipex.com/localpast/94au/oral.htm Oral Account of Coach Building, Early 1900s]
  
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*[http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors]
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*[http://www.railwayancestors.org.uk/ The Railway Ancestors Family History Society]
  
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*[http://web.onyxnet.co.uk/Auffret-onyxnet.co.uk/railways/railways.htm The North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway]
  
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*[http://www.seasidehistory.co.uk/index.html Seaside Travel and Nostalgia]
  
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*[http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/ukregistrations.html History Behind British Vehicle Registration System]
  
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*[http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ 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.
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*[http://www.britishtaxdiscs.co.uk/tax-disc-history.php History of The Road Fund Licence - Tax Disk]
  
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*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Transport Times Past - Transport]
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*[http://www.churchplansonline.org/ Church Plans Online]
  
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*[http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, The First Garden City]
  
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*[http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM SUFFRAGETTES Give Women the Vote]
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*[http://www.cadbury.co.uk/CADBURYANDCHOCOLATE/OURSTORY/PHILAN/Pages/bvttoday.aspx Bournville Village (Founded by Richard and George Cadbury)]
  
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm Spartacus Educational Gives Names of the more well remembered ladies]
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*[http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/ Port Sunlight founded by William Lever]
  
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*[http://www.jrht.org.uk/Your+community/Communities+by+location/New+Earswick New Earswick Village built by Joseph Rowntree]
  
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*[http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/castles.html#A British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses]
  
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*[http://www.victorianstation.com/architecturemenu.htm Victorian Architecture, (mostly American)]
  
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*[http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Leeds industrial museum, which includes a history of industrialisation]
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*[http://www.buildinghistory.org/ Researching Historic Buildings in The British Isles]
  
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*[http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ A useful site for the cotton spinning and weaving industry]
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*[http://www.victorianlondon.org/ Explore Victorian London]
  
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*[http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm Industrial History]
 
  
 
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==The British Monarchy==
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*[http://www.royal.gov.uk/ The Offical Website of The British Monarchy]
  
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*[http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html Women in the American civil war, with links to other related sites]
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*[http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web]
  
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*[http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm America in World War One]
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*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Royal%20events Times Past - Royal Events]  
  
 
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==The Landed Gentry==
  
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*[http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching]
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*[http://www.sledmerehouse.com/ Sledmere House, Home of Sir Tatton Sykes]
  
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*[http://www.hometown.aol.co.uk/BritHorseTrams/index.html Horse trams]
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*[http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0601sykes.html Papers of Sykes Family- Held at Brynmor-Jones Library, The University of Hull.]
  
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*[http://www.lvta.co.uk/history.htm Horse cabs and Hackney carriages]
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*[http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/sledmere.htm The Sledmere Stud, Driffield, East Yorkshire]
  
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*[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]
  
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*[http://www.leighrayment.com/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page - a database of MPs]
  
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*[http://www.alcester.dial.pipex.com/localpast/94au/oral.htm Oral account of Coachbuilding, Early 1900’s]
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*[http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/wagon/ Sir Mark Sykes Bart]
  
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[[image:Ark and pulpit Brighton Synagogue.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Ark and pulpit. Middle St Synagogue, Brighton]]
  
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*[http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/londweb.htm The London Jews Database (pre-1850)]
  
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*[http://www.jeffreymaynard.com/index.htm Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies]
  
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*[http://www.jewishgen.org/ JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy]
  
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*[http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_9E The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names]
  
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*[http://www.joodsmonument.nl/article.php?thg_id=HELP&lang=en Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands]
  
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*[http://www.jrf.org.uk/housingandcare/newearswick/ New Earswick (built by Joseph Rowntree)]
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*[http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/ Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain]  
  
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*[http://www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Researching historic buildings in the British Isles]
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*[http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry - The Anglo-Saxon and The Celtic Age]
  
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==The British Monarchy==
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*[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/eabolition.asp International Slavery Museum]
  
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*[http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web]
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*[http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces The Transantlantic Slave Trade Database]  
  
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm The Slave Trade - 1700-1930]
  
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*[http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas]
  
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*[http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html#A North American Slave Narratives]
  
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*[http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/slavery/index.htm?cids=Google_PPC&cre=Slavery The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Abolition Movement] Time Line of Key Events
  
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*[http://www.brycchancarey.com/index.htm Slavery, Emancipation, and Abolition]
  
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/ Abolition of The Slave Trade]
  
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*[http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/atlantic.slave.trade.html Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade 1502 - 1841]
  
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*[http://www.discoveringbristol.org.uk/subIndex.php?sit_id=1 Bristol and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade]
  
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*[http://www.recoveredhistories.org/ Recovered Histories- Reawakening The Narratives of Enslavement, Resistance and the Fight For Freedom]
  
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*[http://www.revealinghistories.org.uk/ Revealing History - Remembering Slavery]
  
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*[http://www.abolition200.org.uk/ Abolition 200 The Bicentenary of the Abolition of The Slave Trade Act]
  
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*[http://compensations.plantations.bb/ Slave Compensation Claims]
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==Current Value of Old Money==
  
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*[http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ 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.
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*[http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html Current value of old money]
  
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*[http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/money.htm  Pre-decimal Sterling Coinage]
 
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*[http://www.britishfarthings.com/Tokens/17th-Century/17th-Century.html 17th-Century Farthing Trade Tokens]
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*[http://www.footrule.com/1/conversn/oengothr.htm?sr=homepage&ac=0 Old English Weights and Measures]
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*[http://home.clara.net/brianp/index.html Weights and Measures]
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*[http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html Nova Roma Guide to understanding Roman Numerals]
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*[http://www.roman-britain.org/numerals.htm Roman Britain. understanding Roman Numerals]
  
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*[http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html Day of Week Calculator]
  
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*[http://www.jeffreymaynard.com/index.htm Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies]
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*[http://homepages.tesco.net/~jk.calisto/calisto/ A Calender Program for Western Europe AD 326 - 2999]
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*[http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html Ecclesiastical Calendar Calculator]
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*[http://www.londonlibraries.org/servlets/llil/archives London Local Studies Libraries and Archives]
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*[http://www.arewerelated.co.uk/ Are We Related? (A Forum)]
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*[http://www.weddingspastandpresent.co.uk/ Weddings Past and Present]
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*[http://home.snu.edu/~dwilliam/f97projects/contraception/history.htm a Brief History of Contraception]
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*[http://www.genealogyprinters.com Family Tree & Chart Printing]
  
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*[http://www.jewishgen.org/ JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy]
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*[http://www.netserf.org/glossary/ Hypertext Medieval Glossary]
  
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*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Youth%20groups Tales from Youth Organisations]
  
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworths_Group Woolworths History]
  
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*[http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry Celts Anglo-celtic]
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*[http://www.examstutor.com/business/resources/companyprofiles/marksandspencer/history.php The History of Marks and Spencer]
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The Family Tree Forum Timeline

Our ancestors (like us) were shaped by the world they lived in and the sudden movement of a family, for example, from their birthplace to another part of the country could be explained by what was happening in the wider world.

The Timeline will help you to put the personal life of your ancestors in context with the social and political situation of the time.


Pathé News Online

Until 1970 cinemas all over Britain showed Pathé newsreels. Now you can view the entire collection, over 3500 hours, online at:

It is necessary to register, but whilst there is a charge for high-resolution copies of the films you can view low resolution versions free of charge. Almost all are in black and white, and the very earliest footage is silent.

The earliest films date from 1896! Pathé display a Top Twenty on their site - the most popular when we checked was a film of the Titanic, but an early favourite of ours is the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901.


Related Pages


Schools and Education



Museums and Galleries


Work and Trade Associations / Unions


Political Parties and Movements


The Industrial Revolution


American History

See Separate page


Civilian Transport


Go to Railways Page

Architecture and Old Buildings



The British Monarchy


The Landed Gentry


Jewish History

Ark and pulpit. Middle St Synagogue, Brighton


The Celts


Slavery


Current Value of Old Money


Uncategorised




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