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==Schools and Education==
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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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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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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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==Related Pages==
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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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*[[Canals and Canal Carriers]]
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*[[Charitable Organisations]]
  
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* http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Education acts – history & politicians
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*[[Costume Past and Present]]
  
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education
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*[[Law and Law Enforcement]]
  
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*[[Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers]]
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==Museums and Galleries==
 
  
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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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*[[Emigration and Immigration]]
  
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*http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Open air museum,at Beamish, Couty Durham, reflecting Northern life in 1800’s and early 1900’s
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*[[Entertainment]]
  
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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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*[[Evacuation and Evacuees]]
  
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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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*[[Fairground/Showmen/Travellers]]
  
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*http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Village includes Salts Mill – houses the David Hockney exhibition
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*[[Farming and Agriculture]]
  
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*[[Inns and Public Houses]]
  
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==Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions==
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*[[Irish Political and Social History]]
  
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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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*[[Maps and Photography]]
  
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*http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors
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*[[:Category:Military and Maritime History|Military and Maritime History]]
  
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*[[Mining and Heavy Industry]]
  
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==Political Parties and Movements==
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*[[Nursing]]
  
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=====The Suffragettes=====
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*[[Places of Worship]]
  
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*http://www.cjbooks.demon.co.uk/suffrage.htm
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*[[Railways]]
  
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*http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM
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*[[Religion and the Clergy]]
  
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*http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm
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*[[Sport]]
  
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*http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm
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*[[Stonemasons]]
  
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*[[Trades and Occupations]]
  
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==Hospitals, Asylums and Sanitoriums==
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*[[Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanitoriums|Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanatoriums]]
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*http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/MAB/MAB.shtml Establishment of hospitals, asylums, hospital ships, smallpox & TB
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==Schools and Education==
  
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*http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/english_asylums.htm Asylum information
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Parliamentary Legislation]
  
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*http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/search.asp TNA's Hospital Database search facility
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education]
  
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*http://www.coram.org.uk/heritage.htm CORAM Foundling Hospital Association
 
  
 
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==The Industrial Revolution==
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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.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Leeds industrial museum, which includes a history of industrialisation
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*[http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/ History of Woollen Cloth in Trowbridge]
  
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*http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ A useful site for the cotton spinning and weaving industry
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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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*http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm Industrial History
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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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==American History==
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==Work and Trade Associations / Unions==
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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://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html Women in the American civil war, with links to other related sites
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*[http://www.unionhistory.info/matchworkers/browse.php Bryant & May Matchworkers Strike Fund Register 1888]
  
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*http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm America in World War One
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*[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/catalogues/unions/ Trade Unions and Similar Organisations]
  
 
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==Irish Political and Social History==
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==Political Parties and Movements==
  
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*[http://chartists.net/ Chartist Ancestors]
  
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*http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/index.html
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*[http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM Give Women The Vote!]
  
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*http://www.humboldt1.com/~history/lexiso/
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm Famous Suffragettes]
  
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*http://www.victorianweb.org/history/famine.html
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*[http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm What Did The Suffragettes Do?]
  
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*http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/index.htm
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==The Industrial Revolution==
  
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*http://www.victorianweb.org/history/emancipation2.html
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*[http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum]
  
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*http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRcatholic.htm
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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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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Emancipation
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*http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/ireland/peelcema.htm
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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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*http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1916_easter_rising.htm
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*http://users.bigpond.net.au/kirwilli/1916/
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==Civilian Transport==
  
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*http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/history/east1916.html
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*[http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching]
  
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*http://www.irelandforvisitors.com/articles/easter1916.htm
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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://www2.cruzio.com/~sbarrett/mcollins.htm Michael Collins
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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.proni.gov.uk/ulstercovenant/index.html Ulster Covenant - Nearly half a million signatures and addresses of protestant men and women, who signed on the 28th of September 1912 in an objection to giving Ireland home rule.
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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.alcester.dial.pipex.com/localpast/94au/oral.htm Oral Account of Coach Building, Early 1900s]
  
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*[http://www.railwayancestors.org.uk/ The Railway Ancestors Family History Society]
  
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*http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching
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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.hometown.aol.co.uk/BritHorseTrams/index.html Horse trams
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*[http://www.seasidehistory.co.uk/index.html Seaside Travel and Nostalgia]
  
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*http://www.lvta.co.uk/history.htm Horse cabs and Hackney carriages
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*[http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/ukregistrations.html History Behind British Vehicle Registration System]
  
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*http://www.flying-bike.demon.co.uk/helistuff/heli.html Helicopters
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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.ba-gb.com/index.php?ps=8 Bicycles
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*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Transport Times Past - Transport]
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Go to [[Railways]] Page
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==Architecture and Old Buildings==
 
==Architecture and Old Buildings==
  
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*http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, the first Garden City
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*[http://www.churchplansonline.org/ Church Plans Online]
  
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*http://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/history_cadbury/social_pioneers/bournville_village.htm Bourneville village (founded by the Cadburys)
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*[http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, The First Garden City]
  
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*http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/page.asp?pageid=history Port Sunlight (founded by William Lever)
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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.jrf.org.uk/housingandcare/newearswick/ New Earswick (built by Joseph Rowntree)
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*[http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/ Port Sunlight founded by William Lever]
  
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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.jrht.org.uk/Your+community/Communities+by+location/New+Earswick New Earswick Village built by Joseph Rowntree]
  
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*http://www.victorianstation.com/architecturemenu.htm Victorian Architecture, mostly American
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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.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Researching historic buildings in the British Isles
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*[http://www.victorianstation.com/architecturemenu.htm Victorian Architecture, (mostly American)]
  
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*[http://www.buildinghistory.org/ Researching Historic Buildings in The British Isles]
  
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*[http://www.victorianlondon.org/ Explore Victorian London]
  
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*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.
 
  
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*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.
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*http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/ccourts.htm A brief description of the 19th Century Criminal Justice System
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==The British Monarchy==
  
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*http://www.met.police.uk/history/index.htm History of the Metropolitan Police
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*[http://www.royal.gov.uk/ The Offical Website of The British Monarchy]
  
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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.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.sledmerehouse.com/ Sledmere House, Home of Sir Tatton Sykes]
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*http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con-wa1.html Western Australian Convicts
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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://uk.geocities.com/becky62655@btinternet.com/ Capital punishment in the 18th & 19th centuries.
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*[http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/sledmere.htm The Sledmere Stud, Driffield, East Yorkshire]
  
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*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.
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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://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/roots/list_cri.htm History of Crime and detection with specific reference to Shropshire
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*[http://www.leighrayment.com/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page - a database of MPs]
  
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*http://www.metaphor.dk/guillotine/Pages/Guillot.html The Guillotine Headquarters
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*[http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/wagon/ Sir Mark Sykes Bart]
  
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*http://www.geocities.com/richard.clark32@btinternet.com/common.html Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth
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**The Commonwealth provides about 30% of the Worlds population comprising 54 member nations.
 
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**The term ABOLISHONIST is used for those nations who no longer have the death penalty and those retaining it are known as RETENTIONIST
 
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**This is the breakdown of how things stand at present.
 
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==Jewish History==
  
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*http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/abolish.html The abolition of hanging in Britain
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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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**George Smith from Dudley in the Midlands 1805-1874.
 
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**William Calcraft - Little Baddow, near Chelmsford, Essex 1800- 1879.
 
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**Thomas Askern of York 1816-1878.
 
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**William Marwood of Horncastle Lincolnshire 1820-1883.
 
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**George Meker or Incher – of Dudley.
 
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**Bartholomew Binns.
 
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**James Berry of Heckmondwike Yorkshire 1852-1913.
 
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**Thomas Henry Scott - Huddersfield.
 
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**James Billington of Farnworth near Bolton in Lancashire 1847-1901.
 
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**Thomas Billington 1872-1902.
 
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**William Billington 1873-1934.
 
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**John Billington 1880-1905.
 
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**Henry Pierrepoint 1874-1922 from BradfordYorkshire.
 
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**John Ellis of Rochdale Lancashire 1874-1932.
 
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**William Willis from Manchester. 187?-1939.
 
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**Thomas Pierrepoint 1870 - 1954.
 
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**Robert Wilson from Manchester.
 
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**Robert Baxter of Hertford.
 
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**Alfred Allen - Wolverhampton.
 
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**Thomas Mather Phillips from Farnworth near Bolton.
 
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**Stanley William Cross.
 
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**Albert Pierrepoint of Clayton Nr. Bradford Yorkshire 1905-1992.
 
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**Harry Kirk from Huntingdon.
 
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**Stephen Wade from Doncaster.
 
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**Harry Bertrum Allen from Manchester 1911-1992.
 
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**Robert Leslie Stewart from Chadderton Lancashire 1918-1988.
 
  
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*[http://www.jewishgen.org/ JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy]
  
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*http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/calendarofprisoners On-line database of inmates in Warwick County Prison between 1800 and 1900
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*[http://www.saudades.org/ Saudades Portuguese Sephardic History]
  
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*http://www.llgc.org.uk/sesiwn_fawr/index_s.htm Details of crimes, criminals and punishments from the prison files of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until 1830.
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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.buckscc.gov.uk/bucks_prisoners/index.htm Details of inmates of Aylesbury prison in the 1870s. Includes details of the prisoner's crime and sentence, and, in some instances, his photograph.
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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.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/contents.htm 19th Century Bedford Gaol
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*[http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/ Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain]
  
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*http://www.inverarayjail.co.uk/index.htm A searchable database of prisoners in Inveraray prison and their details, including prisoners who were deported
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*http://www.rootschat.com/history/hastings/content/view/46/30 Prisoners sentenced to transportation from Lewes Assizes between c1790 and c1850
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==The Celts==
  
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*http://www.yeoldesussexpages.com/misc/genealog/gene.htm Important English trials 1649-1895
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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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*http://www.geocities.com/stevenhortonuk/liverpoolmurders.html Murders in Liverpool
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*http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hanging1.html The history of judicial hanging in Britain.
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==Slavery==
  
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*http://www.genealogytoday.com/au/articles/convict_research.html Convicts tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Assizes
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*[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/eabolition.asp International Slavery Museum]
  
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*http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/sessions.html Kent Quarter Sessions Indices
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*[http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces The Transantlantic Slave Trade Database]
  
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*http://www.yorkfamilyhistory.org.uk/assizes.htm An index of over 8000 prisoners brought to trial at York Assizes between 1785 and 1851
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm The Slave Trade - 1700-1930]
  
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*http://www.wirksworth.org.uk/CRIME.htm A database of persons tried at the Derbyshire Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions 1770-1828.
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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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==The British Monarchy==
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*[http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html#A North American Slave Narratives]
  
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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.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://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.
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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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==Emigration and Immigration==
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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.ulsterancestry.com/ Ulster ancestry has a lot of information on its free pages, both passenger lists and some lists of emigrants...
 
  
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*http://www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/ A Scottish emigration database
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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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If you google "Metagama" you will get some ship passenger lists from 1920's.
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==Current Value of Old Money==
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This is a small example - 404 names on this list mostly from Scotland.
 
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Departed Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, June 22, 1923
 
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Departed Belfast, Ireland on Saturday, June 23, 1923
 
  
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'''Trans-Atlantic Sailing to Quebec and Montreal, Canada, July 5, 1923'''
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*[http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html Current value of old money]
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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".  
 
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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.


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.


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