Chapman of Dawlish – Images of Devon
If you are studying a place in Devon, be sure to check the Chapman collection. It consists of 3,000+ glass negatives and 2,000+ prints (taken mostly from the plates), produced…
Clericus – Irish Clerical Database
Clericus is a digital humanities research project that aims to develop a database on the Irish RC clerical population for the early modern and modern periods. Phase I of the…
Watercolour World
Watercolour World have created a free online database of documentary watercolours painted before 1900. Before the invention of the camera, people used watercolours to document the world. Over the centuries,…
The Local Historian – free access
BALH (The British Association for Local History) has made all online back issues of The Local Historian (their quarterly journal) free to download for the duration of the pandemic crisis.…
British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO)
The British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO) project is a partnership between the Institute of Historical Research and the Furniture History Society. The BIFMO mission is to serve as…
Cumbrian Railway Employees
The Cumbrian Railways Association has created a database of references to Cumbrian Railway Employees. The database comprises over 28,000 records derived from a large number of sources including official railway…
Canadian First World War Database Completed
Massive congratulations to Library and Archives Canada (LAC) on completing the digitization of all Canadian military personnel records from World War 1. It took five years of work, encompassing over…
Historic England Photographic Collection
Historic England have made available online the Architectural Red Box Collection started by the National Buildings Record back in 1941 to document England’s built heritage, especially those buildings threatened or…
GRO PDF Pilot Extended – Again!
The General Register Office (GRO) has been piloting a service in England & Wales providing PDF copies of historical birth and death records. The pilot, originally extended to July…
City of London Cemetery – Burial Registers
The City of London Cemetery is one of the largest municipal cemeteries in Europe and anyone may be buried there irrespective of City connections or religious beliefs. Images of their…
Berkshire Enclosures
Ancestors from Berkshire or a one-place study there? Take a look at the New Landscapes: Enclosure in Berkshire site to learn more about the process of enclosing the common fields…
Ireland Illustrated 1680-1860
Ireland Illustrated 1680-1860 is a database of over 500 images of Ireland, with accompanying text, drawn from more than 50 manuscript and printed works, and highlighting several neglected or rarely…