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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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*[[Charitable Organisations]]
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*[[Costume Past and Present]]
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*[[Law and Law Enforcement]]
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*[[Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers]]
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*[[Emigration and Immigration]]
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*[[Entertainment]]
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*[[Evacuation and Evacuees]]
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*[[Fairground/Showmen/Travellers]]
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*[[Farming and Agriculture]]
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*[[Inns and Public Houses]]
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*[[Irish Political and Social History]]
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*[[Maps and Photography]]
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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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*[[Nursing]]
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*[[Places of Worship]]
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*[[Railways]]
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*[[Religion and the Clergy]]
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*[[Sport]]
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*[[Stonemasons]]
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*[[Trades and Occupations]]
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*[[Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanitoriums|Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanatoriums]]
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==Schools and Education==
 
==Schools and Education==
  
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* http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Education acts – history & politicians
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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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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education
 
  
 
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==Museums and Galleries==
 
==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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*[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/ Open air museum,at Beamish, Couty Durham, reflecting Northern life in 1800’s and early 1900’s
 
  
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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.beamish.org.uk/ Beamish Open Air Museum, County Durham. Northern Life in The 1800s & Early 1900s.]
  
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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.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp Theme Museum Malton, North Yorkshire. Centred on The History of WW2.]
  
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*http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Village includes Salts Mill – houses the David Hockney exhibition
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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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==Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions==
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*[http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/ History of Woollen Cloth in Trowbridge]
  
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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://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.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors
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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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==Political Parties and Movements==
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*[http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Affiliated Friendly Societies]
  
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*http://www.cjbooks.demon.co.uk/suffrage.htm
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*[http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors]
  
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*http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM
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*[http://www.unionhistory.info/matchworkers/browse.php Bryant & May Matchworkers Strike Fund Register 1888]
  
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*http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm
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*[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/catalogues/unions/ Trade Unions and Similar Organisations]
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*http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm
 
  
 
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==Hospitals, Asylums and Sanitoriums==
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==Political Parties and Movements==
  
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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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*[http://chartists.net/ Chartist Ancestors]
  
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*http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/english_asylums.htm Asylum information
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*[http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM Give Women The Vote!]
  
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*http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/search.asp TNA's Hospital Database search facility
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm Famous Suffragettes]
  
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*http://www.coram.org.uk/heritage.htm CORAM Foundling Hospital Association
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*[http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm What Did The Suffragettes Do?]
  
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==The Industrial Revolution==
 
==The Industrial Revolution==
  
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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.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum]
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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.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm Industrial History
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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://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html Women in the American civil war, with links to other related sites
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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.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.fleetdata.co.uk/ukregistrations.html History Behind British Vehicle Registration System]
  
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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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==Architecture and Old Buildings==
 
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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.cadbury.co.uk/CADBURYANDCHOCOLATE/OURSTORY/PHILAN/Pages/bvttoday.aspx Bournville Village (Founded by Richard and George Cadbury)]
  
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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://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.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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==The British Monarchy==
  
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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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*[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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*[http://www.sledmerehouse.com/ Sledmere House, Home of Sir Tatton Sykes]
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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.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.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.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.jeffreymaynard.com/index.htm Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies]
  
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*[http://www.saudades.org/ Saudades Portuguese Sephardic History]
  
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For those interested in the Highland Clearances there is loads of info here - I only looked at 6 of them and have already found a missing person.
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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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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.jgsgb.org.uk/ Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain]
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The Metagama sailed on Saturday the 21st of April, 1923. From all over Lewis, they crowded into Stornoway on the Friday. Cromwell Street echoed with the banter and excited anticipation of those about to leave, mingling with the sadness of those who had come to say goodbye.
 
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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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==Slavery==
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*[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/eabolition.asp International Slavery Museum]
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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.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://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://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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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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