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Cheshire Tithe Maps Online |
https://maps.cheshireeast.gov.uk/tithemaps/ |
Overlay of tithe maps (1836-51) with a selection of OS maps and aerial surveys. |
Mapping Medieval Chester
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http://www.medievalchester.ac.uk/ |
This project brings together scholars working in the disciplines of literary studies, geography, archaeology and history to explore how material and imagined urban landscapes construct and convey a sense of place-identity. The focus of the project is the city of Chester and the identities that its inhabitants formed between c.1200 and 1500.
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Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society |
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=100 |
Selected volumes available between 1886 to 2013. |
VCH Cheshire. Volume 5 (The City of Chester)
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Part 1
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol5/pt1
Part 2
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol5/pt2
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Part 1. General History and Topography.
Part 2. Culture, Buildings, Institutions.
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Cornish Archaeology=Hendhyscans Kernow
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https://cornisharchaeology.org.uk/category/journals/ |
Publication of the Cornish Archaeology Society. Vols 1-49 (1962-2010) available in pdf format.
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Cornwall Online Census Project
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http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/genealogy/search.html |
Although the project ended in 2008 it has useful information on Cornish Census data from 1841 to 1901.
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Cumbria Image Bank
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https://cumbriaimagebank.org.uk/index.php |
Image library including maps.
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Otley, Jonathan. A concise description of the English lakes and adjacent mountains
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https://archive.org/details/cu31924067529655/page/n5/mode/2up |
4th edition (1830)
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Derbyshire Archaeological Journal |
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=1000242 |
Volumes available 1879-2014. |
Derbyshire Heritage Mapping Portal
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https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/record-office/records/historic-maps/historic-maps.aspx |
The portal contains selected historical maps of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. The maps can be overlaid on a current Ordnance Survey map to see how the area has developed over the past 200 years.
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Derbyshire Prisoner Records
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https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/record-office/records/prisoner-records/prisoner-records.aspx |
A database of Derbyshire prisoners between 1729 and 1913.
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Devon's World War One Roll of Honour Project
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http://www.devonhonour.org.uk/ |
This project provides access to the World War One Roll of Honour held in the Devon Heritage Centre.
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Eighteenth Century Devon: People and Communities
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http://www.foda.org.uk/main/projects/eighteenthcentury.htm |
Project provides access to transcribed copies of the Devon and Exeter Oath Rolls, 1723, the Episcopal Visitation Returns of 1749 and 1779 and Devonshire Freeholders 1711-1799.
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Durham (County)
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Archaeologia Aeliana
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https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=1001112 |
Volumes available 1822-2014.
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Coal Mining Oral History
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http://www.durhamintime.org.uk/coal_mining/index.htm |
Oral history archive devoted to County Durham's mining history.
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Durham Probate Records 1540-1599
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http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ark/32150_s1mc87pq251.xml#DPRI-1-1596-t |
Wills and inventories held by Durham University Library.
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Durham University Gazette
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https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/asc/durham-university/dugazettes/ |
Selected issues from 1953 to 1986.
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Durham University Journal
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https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/asc/durham-university/dujournal/ |
Selected issues from 1876 to 1973.
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Pictures in Print
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http://valentine.dur.ac.uk/pip/index.html |
A collaborative project to create a union catalogue, with viewable images, of printed maps and topographical prints of County Durham created before 1860.
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Surtees Society: selected volumes
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https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Surtees+Society%22&sort=-date&page=2 |
Selected volumes hosted on the archive.org site.
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Essex Place Names Database
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https://www1.essex.ac.uk/history/esah/essexplacenames/index.asp |
The Essex Place-names database contains names of fields, roads, inns, houses, farms, manors, places, rivers, streams, woods, etc, and names of owners, tenants, landlords, parties to agreements etc, recorded from historic documents such as Tithe Awards, Rental Agreements, Surveys, Maps, Rolls, Inquisitions, Deeds, Charters.
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Historical Association (Bristol Branch) Pamphlets
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https://bristolha.wordpress.com/bristol-ha-pamphlets/ |
The site gives access to digital copies of historical pamphlets of the HA Bristol branch produced between 1960 and 2007.
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Hampshire History Resources Guide
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https://www.hampshire-history.com/sample-page/resources/ |
Portal to hundreds of links to local historical societies and resources about the history of Hampshire
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MEMSLib Medieval and Early Modern Canterbury and Kent Resource Page
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https://www.memslib.co.uk/medievalcanterburykent |
Research portal of resources freely available for the history of Kent and Canterbury from 597 to 1597.
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Bolton Worktown: photography and archives from Mass Observation
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https://boltonworktown.co.uk/ |
Primarily a photo library, with a selection of digitised documents.
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Liverpool History Projects
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http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk/ |
Hosts a number of databases on Liverpools history.
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Peterloo Digital Collection
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https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/peterloo/2 |
Selection of documents digitised by the University of Manchester.
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Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
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https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=100 |
Selected volumes available between 1886 to 2013.
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VCH Lancashire, Volumes 2-8
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https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/vch--lancs |
Available via British History Online
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Bulletin of the Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society
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https://www.loughboroughpastandpresent.org/archives.htm |
1958-1991
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Yellow Belly Index
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https://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk/index.php/information/yellow-belly-index-moa?start=30- |
This database is an index of Lincolnshire people. Unlike the people in the parish records, census or strays this list contains people who appear in any record related to Lincolnshire.
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1958 Riots
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https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/studying/docs/rem/riots/ |
This page gives access to a number of digitised documents concerning the Notting Hill Riots of August and September 1958.
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Black and Asian People discovered in records held in the Manuscripts Section, Guildhall Library
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https://archives.history.ac.uk/guildhallmanuscripts/baentries.htm |
List of Black and Asian people found in London parish registers found in Guildhall Library.
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Charles Booth's London (LSE)
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booth.lse.ac.uk |
Charles Booth's London enables you to search the catalogue of over 450 original notebooks from the Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903), view 41 digitised notebooks and explore the London poverty maps.
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Everyday Muslim: Exploring the diversity of Black British Muslim heritage in London
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https://www.everydaymuslim.org/projects/black-british-muslim-heritage-project/ |
Selected written and oral sources are available through this site.
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Grunwick Remembered
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https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/archives_online/filmvideo/grunwick |
Here you can find a number of recorded interviews about the Grunwick Strike of August 1976, including reflections from the strike leader Jayaben Desai.
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Jewish East London
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https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/studying/docs/rem/london/ |
This page give access to a handful of digitised documents highlighting the history of Jewish communities in East London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Layers of London
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https://www.layersoflondon.org/ |
Layered historical mapping and associated collections for all of London’s 36 boroughs (many formerly parts of Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Essex).
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Medieval Londoners
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https://medievallondoners.ace.fordham.edu/ |
This website introduces resources available for research about medieval London and its people, focusing not only on documentary and narrative sources in print, but also archaeological, visual, and cartographic sources that illuminate the physical and material world inhabited by medieval Londoners. An important component of the website is the Medieval Londoners Database (MLD), which records the activities of London residents between c. 1100 and 1520, and is searchable by name, gender, citizenship status, location (ward, parish, and street if available), craft, occupation, civic office, and craft office, among other variables.
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Norfolk Archaeology
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https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=1001327 |
Journal dates available: 1847-2005
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Norfolk Transcription Archive
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http://doun.org/transcriptions/index.php |
Includes indexed transcriptions of Norfolk Parish Registers, Archdeacon's Transcripts, Census and many other documents.
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Archaeologia Aeliana
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https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=1001112 |
Volumes available 1822-2014.
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Dukefield Documents
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http://www.dukesfield.org.uk/research/dukesfield-documents/ |
Transcriptions of documents show-casing the history of lead smelting in the North-East.
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Early deeds relating to Newcastle upon Tyne
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https://archive.org/details/earlynewcastledeeds/page/n5/mode/2up |
Surtees Society publication, 1924.
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Northumberland Communities
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https://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/Communities.htm |
Provides information on 77 of Northumberland's towns, villages and hamlets with a selection of online sources for each.
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Speeches delivered by Joseph Cowen, as candidate for Newcastle-upon-Tyne a the General Election, 1885
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https://archive.org/details/speechesdelivere00coweuoft/page/n5/mode/2up |
Published: Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Andrew Reid, 1885.
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Surtees Society: selected volumes
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https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Surtees+Society%22&sort=-date&page=2 |
Selected volumes hosted on the archive.org site.
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Staffordshire Past Track
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http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ |
Database makes available maps, documents and photographs on the history of Staffordshire.
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Stoke-on-Trent Archaeology: unpublished reports |
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=10058 |
1995-2017 available to download. |
VCH Staffordshire: selected volumes
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https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/vch--staffs |
Volumes 3, 5, 7-9, 14 and 17 available via British History Online
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Ipswich 1974-1990 Excavation Archive
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https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/ipswich_parent_2015/index.cfm |
Interactive map of archaeological excavations in Ipswich between 1974 and 1990 together with downloads of data from the reports they produced.
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Ipswich Maritime Trust: Image Archive
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https://ipswichmaritimetrust.org.uk/image-archive/ |
Hosted on Flickr, over 2000 photographs show-casing Ipswich's 19th and 20th century maritime history.
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Suffolk Archives: Digital Exhibitions
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https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/displays-online/ |
A number of exhibitions show-casing items found in Suffolk Archives.
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Understanding Ipswich: Historical Sources
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https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/historical-sources |
Site discusses the various types of sources that can be used while researching Ipswich's history.
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Bradfer-Lawrence Collection
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http://www.bl.yascollections.org.uk/index.php?id=3832&secid=02 |
Selections from the collection of the antiquarian Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence.
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From Weaver to Web: online visual archive of Calderdale history
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https://www.calderdale.gov.uk/wtw/ |
Image library of 23,000 items documenting Calderdale's history.
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Leeds General Cemetery Burial Registers
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https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/Leeds%20General%20Cemetery%20Burial%20Registers%20Index |
The Leeds General Cemetery Burial Registers Index is a database of transcriptions of all entries in the burial registers of the Leeds General Cemetery. The registers hold information on each person buried at the cemetery, covering the period 1835-1992. There are 97,112 entries in the index. Digital images of the registers are available to view alongside the transcribed data.
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West Yorkshire Tithe Maps
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http://wytithemaps.org.uk/ |
Created by the West Yorkshire Archive Service, this site currently provides free access to tithe maps of the Bradford district.
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Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (selected volumes)
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https://archive.org/details/yorkshirearchaeologicalandhistoricalsociety?sort=-date |
Volumes available: 1885, 1887-95, 1897-1907, 1909-1918, 1920-22, 1924-43, 1945-46, 1948-53, 1955-56, 1958-59, 1962, 1966-67.
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