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- Click on 🔵 to find out more without leaving this site.
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Archives ~ Local ~ National [12]
- Archives Hub
- Archives New Zealand
- Archives Wales
- British Library
- Find an Archive in the UK
- Library and Archives Canada
- Library of Congress
- National Archives [Ireland]
- National Archives [United States]
- National Archives of Australia
- National Library of Wales
- The National Archives
Books ~ Published Works ~ Local Histories ~ Academic Papers [12]
- Amazon Books
- British History Online
- Connected Histories
- Google Books
- Hathi Trust
- Internet Archive
- JStor (academic papers)
- Local Historian
- Open Domesday
- Open Library
- Victoria County Histories
- Wellcome Library
Buildings [11]
- Baths and Wash Houses Archive
- British Listed Buildings Online
- Building History
- Coflein
- Heritage Gateway
- Lost Pubs Project
- Mills Archive
- National Heritage List for England
- Piers
- Pub Wiki
- Zoopla House Prices
Directories [4]
- England & Wales Directories (University of Leicester) 💚
- Grace’s Guide
- Scotland Directories (National Library of Scotland) 💚
- United States & Canada Directories
Education [4]
Emigration / Immigration / Passenger Lists [4]
- Ellis Island Passenger and Ship Search Database
- English Immigrants Database 1350-1550
- Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database (SSNE)
- The Ships List
Employment ~ Industry ~ Manufacturing ~ Occupations ~ Trades [24]
- Accountants Obituaries
- Bankrupt Directory (Dec 1820-Apr1843)
- Blacksmiths Index
- British Book Trade Index (BBTI) [England/Wales] | Scottish Book Trade Index (SBTI)
- Business, Labour, Temperance & Trade Periodicals (19th Century)
- CCEd (Clergy of Church of England Database) 🔵
- Clericus (Irish Roman Catholic Clerical Database)
- Clock & Watch Makers Index [UK/Ireland]
- Coastguards (British)
- Crew Lists Index Project | Lancashire Crew Lists
- Dictionary of Occupational Terms (1921 Census)
- Dictionary of Old Occupations
- Furniture Makers (BIFMO) [UK/Ireland]
- Lighthouse Keepers [UK/Ireland]
- Masonic Periodicals Online | Lane’s Masonic Records (1717-1894) | Museum of Freemasonry Catalogue
- National Fairground & Circus Archive
- Patent Search
- Smugglers’ Britain
- Theatrical Ancestors
- Welsh Coal Mines
Images [25]
- Art UK
- Britain from Above 🔵 | Aerial Photos (CUCAP)
- British Pathe – Newsreel Footage
- Chapman of Dawlish – postcards & images [Devon]
- Collage The London Picture Archive
- East Anglian Film Archive
- Geograph – photographs 💚
- Herefordshire Image Collection
- Historic England Red Box – Photograph Collection
- Inspire Picture Archive – [Nottinghamshire]
- National Library of Ireland – Digital Photographs
- National Media Museum
- Our Town Stories – Edinburgh
- Our Town Story
- Photochrom Print Collection (PPLOC) 🔵
- PicClick – Postcards on eBay
- Picture Norfolk
- Postcards Ireland
- Scotlands People – Image Library
- Show my street
- Totnes Image Bank [Devon £££]
- TuckDB Postcards 🔵
- Watercolour World
- What Was There
Institutions ~ Asylums ~ Hospitals ~ Prisons ~ Workhouses [5]
- Asylums & Mental Hospitals
- Children’s Homes
- Hospital Records Database
- Waifs & Strays Society Homes (Hidden Lives Revealed)
- Workhouses
Maps ~ Mapping Projects ~ Gazetteers ~ Place Names ~ Surveys [22]
- British Historic Towns Atlas
- British Library – Fire insurance maps
- Charles Booth’s Poverty Maps [London]
- English Place Names
- Gatehouse Gazetteer – castles, fortifications & palaces
- Gazetteer for Scotland 🔵
- FamilySearch 1851 Jurisdictions – parish, poor law union etc. boundaries
- Griffith’s Valuation
- Heritage Maps Ireland – view different layers
- Historic Towns Trust
- IHGS County Maps [Ancestry £] – parish boundaries & earliest register date
- Know Your Place West 💚
- Layers of London 💚
- Library of Congress Maps 💚
- NLS Maps 💚
- Northern Ireland Place Names Project
- Old Maps Online 💚
- Open Historical Map
- Tithe Maps – Cheshire | Devon
- Vision of Britain
- Welsh Tithe Maps 💚
Newspapers etc. [7]
- Chronicling America
- Elephind – world newspapers
- Hansard – Official Parliamentary Record – UK 🔵
- Papers Past [National Library of New Zealand] 💚
- Trove – Australian Newspapers 💚
- The Gazette – Official Public Record
- Welsh Newspapers Online
People ~ Family Events ~ from births to burials and probate [18]
- Births, Deaths & Marriages Online
- Find A Grave – images of gravestones
- Find a Will – search for wills/probate
- FreeBMD – free birth marriage and death transcriptions
- FreeCen – free census record transcriptions
- FreeReg – free parish register transcriptions
- General Register Office – online Birth & Death Index 💚
- Gravestone Photographic Resource – images of gravestones
- Histpop 🔵 – population statistics
- Online Parish Clerks – Cornwall | Dorset | Kent | Lancashire | Sussex | Warwickshire | Wiltshire
- People’s Collection Wales
- Yorkshire Burials
Transport [8]
- Air – Airfields of Britain
- Canals – Canal & River Trust
- Railway – Disused Stations | RailMaps | Railways Archive | Cumbrian Railway Employees | Midland Railway Staff
- Roads – Turnpike Roads in England & Wales
Wartime [10]
- A Street Near You
- BBC World War One at Home
- Bomb Sight (London)
- CWGC💚
- Cymru 1914
- In From the Cold
- Ireland’s Memorial Records – in Flanders Fields
- Roll of Honour
- Lives of the First World War
- War Memorials Register