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Classification:Information
Title:A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames
Link:A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames
Description:A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames
Classification:Information, Other Records
Title:Archives Hub - Find Sources For Your Research
Link:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/
Description:Archives Hub - Find Sources For Your Research
Extra Info:Use the Archives Hub to find unique sources for your research. Search across descriptions of archives, including links to digital content, held at over 300 institutions across the UK.
Classification:Information, Companies / Employee and Union Lists
Title:British and Irish Furniture Makers Online
Link:https://bifmo.furniturehistorysociety.org/
Description:Faces Behind the Furniture, 1500-1914
Classification:Information, Photographs / Pictures
Title:British Pathe Film Archive
Link:https://www.britishpathe.com
Description:British Pathe Film Archive 1896-1970
Extra Info:All sorts of social history on film as well as royal visits, wing walkers, early pictures of heathrow, swimming galas and much more.
Classification:Information
Title:British Surnames
Link:https://britishsurnames.co.uk
Description:Research the origins and distribution of your surname
Extra Info:Information on similar surnames, most common surnames, surname distribution maps as well as surname meanings and etymologies.
Classification:Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Information, Photographs / Pictures
Title:County Asylum
Link:http://web.archive.org/web/20110708195950/http://w...
Description:Rediscovering the Asylums and Mental Hospitals of England and Wales
Extra Info:This site is no longer active, however an archived copy of the site is still available to view (may take a few moments to load). There may be some pages that do not work. Lists architects' names and more.
Classification:Information
Title:Family History Books via Family Search
Link:Family History Books via Family Search
Description:Family History Books via Family Search
Extra Info:More than 40,000 digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world. Read online for free.
Classification:Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Information, Photographs / Pictures
Title:Historic Churches of Great Britain
Link:http://www.historicchurches.co.uk/
Description:Maps of locations of many Historic Churches of Great Britain
Extra Info:Helps you find the location of the churches where you ancestors were baptised, married or buried. Their long-term aim is to add photographs to accompany each map.
Classification:Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Information
Title:Index of Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals
Link:http://studymore.org.uk/4_13_TA.HTM
Description:Index of Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals
Extra Info:Based around a 1844 study but expanded with details of the institutions.
Classification:Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Tithe Records, Information
Title:Internet Archive
Link:http://archive.org/
Description:Internet Archive
Extra Info:Has many scanned books. Click on texts and then search the archive. Note gazetteer and gazetteers give different results.
Classification:Information, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures
Title:Landed families of Britain and Ireland
Link:https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/
Description:Research into the landowning families of the British Isles and the country houses which they owned.
Classification:Information, Diseases / Causes of Death
Title:List of Old Diseases
Link:https://web.archive.org/web/20180822104047/http://...
Description:List of Medical Terms found On Old Death Certificates, Doctors Reports and in Old Letters
Extra Info:This is an archived copy of the original website which may not function fully.
Classification:Information, Other Records
Title:Manorial Documents Register
Link:https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/manor-se...
Description:Manorial Documents Register at the National Archive
Classification:Information, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Photographs / Pictures
Title:Military Badges and Military Images
Link:http://web.archive.org/web/20110721011946/http://w...
Description:Military Badges and Military Images
Extra Info:An archived copy of the site which is no longer available. May take a little while to load. May not work correctly in all browsers.
Classification:Information, Diseases / Causes of Death
Title:Old Disease names and their modern definitions
Link:http://www.disease.pricklytree.co.uk/
Description:Quick reference to the medical terms used on your ancestors record of death.
Classification:Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices
Title:Old Occupations of England
Link:https://web.archive.org/web/20220129151438/http://...
Description:Old Occupations
Extra Info:An archived copy of a site that is no longer active, however the information is still available to view. Lists many old occupations and meanings, taken from census records.
Classification:Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Religious Lists / Records, Information, Other Records
Title:Open Library
Link:http://openlibrary.org/
Description:Open Library - Scanned Books Online
Extra Info:Use the search facility and select e-books only. Some English trade directories, journals, historic accounts of counties and more.
Classification:Information, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures
Title:Parliamentary Archives
Link:https://archives.parliament.uk/online-resources/re...
Description:Historic documents (including photographs and illustrations) from the UK Parliament
Extra Info:Includes Protestations Returns, the closest thing we have to a census for 1642. The Returns list the adult men residing in a parish.
Classification:Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Information, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records
Title:Passenger Lists and Emigrant Ships
Link:http://www.norwayheritage.com/
Description:Passenger Lists and Emigrant Ships
Extra Info:Includes some searchable passenger lists. also information about the ships and lists documenting their individual voyages, as well as pictures of the ships.
Classification:Information, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records
Title:Railway Work, Life and Death
Link:https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/
Description:Life, Work and Death on the Railways
Extra Info:May be slow to load. Find out about railway worker accidents in Britain and Ireland in the later 19th and early 20th century
Classification:Information, Photographs / Pictures
Title:Science and Society Picture Library
Link:https://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk
Description:Science and Society Picture Library
Extra Info:Over 50,000 images from buildings, such as textile mills, to pictures of historical fire engines.
Classification:Information
Title:Wellcome Collection - Images of 2000 years
Link:https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works
Description:Wellcome Collection - Images of 2000 years
Extra Info:Includes images of war and those with a medical theme, such as St Pancras smallpox hospital, as well as much more.
Classification:Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Information
Title:Registration Districts in Berkshire
Link:https://ukbmd.org.uk/reg/brk.html
Description:Civil registration districts in Berkshire since 1837
Extra Info:Information on the registration districts and their changes over the years.
Classification:Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Information
Title:Wikipedia list of civil parishes in Berkshire
Link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_parishes_in_Be...
Description:List of parishes in Berkshire provided by Wikipedia.
Extra Info:Information on the parishes with links to information pages about the parishes.
Classification:Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Information
Title:Wikipedia list of places in Berkshire
Link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_Be...
Description:List of places in Berkshire provided by Wikipedia.
Extra Info:Information on place names with links to information pages about the place.

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