General History

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Schools and Education


Museums and Galleries


Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions


Political Parties and Movements

The Suffragettes


Hospitals, Asylums and Sanitoriums


The Industrial Revolution


American History


Irish Political and Social History

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Civilian Transport


Architecture and Old Buildings


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.




Crime and Punishment

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The British Monarchy


Emigration and Immigration

Highland Clearances

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.

If you google "Metagama" you will get some ship passenger lists from 1920's. This is a small example - 404 names on this list mostly from Scotland. Departed Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, June 22, 1923 Departed Belfast, Ireland on Saturday, June 23, 1923

Trans-Atlantic Sailing to Quebec and Montreal, Canada, July 5, 1923 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". 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. (This is From West Side historical Society on Google - out of the 300 who sailed that day only 20 were NOT young men, the average age was 22.) It decimated the Island Communities and to this day they have not recovered.

Links


Inns and Public Houses



Religion and the Clergy

  • http://www.crockford.org.uk/ Crockford’s Clerical Directory: a directory of the clergy of the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church,
  • http://www.special-coll.bham.ac.uk/ The archives for the Church Missionary Society are kept at Birmingham University Library in their Special Collections. The catalogue can be searched online here


Maps and Photography


The Landed Gentry


Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen


Jewish history


Stonemasons


Emigration in the 1800's


Farming and Agriculture


Shipping and Passenger Lists


Some Old Legal Terms


Workhouses


OLD OCCUPATIONS (miscellaneous)


Pre-historic Ancesters


Ireland


Clothing and Fashion


Mining and Heavy Industry


The Celts