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National Monuments Record | English Heritage
Discover more about England's heritage from the National Monuments Record (NMR), the public archive of English Heritage. We hold over 12 million photos, plans, drawings, reports and publications on archaeology, listed buildings, aerial photography and social history. We also manage the national historic environment databases of England's buildings, sites and territorial waters. Access our archives by; searching over 2 million photos and records online, contact us by letter, phone, fax or email for our research service, or visit our Public Search Room and Library.
Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court. If you are new to this site, you may find the Getting Started and Guide to Searching videos and tutorials helpful. Personal workspaces , which allow registered users to save, annotate, organise and export search results. For more information, see Using the Workspace . In January 2011 co-directors Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker were awarded the Longman-History Today Trustees Award for their "major contribution to history over the past year or years" with the Old Bailey and London Lives projects. London Lives, 1690-1800Scotland
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Old-Maps is the UK's most comprehensive historical map archive comprising site centred historical maps covering England, Wales and Scotland. We provide a complete step by step picture of land use changes that have taken place from the mid-19th Century onwards, from OS County Series, OS Town Plans and post-war National Grid mapping to unique Russian Maps of UK target locations from the cold-war era.
Old Maps
A Vision of Britain through Time | Your national on-line library for local history | Maps, Statistics, Travel Writing and more
Search by placename to view historical statistics, maps, writings and more... Enter a full postcode or a place name (just a name, NO county) in the search box to access all our content for a place ... or just go someplace .The texts of original documents , such as the Journals of the Houses of Commons and Lords, Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, and the Statutes of the Realm. Works by modern historians , such as the Victoria County History of the Counties of England, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, English Heritage's Survey of London, and Office Holders in Modern Britain. Summaries of primary sources, prepared by modern editors , such as multiple series of the Calendars of State Papers, the Catalogue of Ancient Deeds, and the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII. Listings of places, property, goods and markets , such as Lewis' Topographical Dictionaries of England, Scotland and Wales, Harben's Dictionary of London, plus the Dictionary of Traded Goods. Historic maps from the Ordnance Survey , including the complete 1:10,560 series, and 1:2,500 maps for selected areas (Epoch 1), plus selected maps of London before and after the great fire.
British History Online
British Royalty Castles & Houses Ireland
Burke's Peerage and Gentry - Definitive historical and genealogical guide to major families.
Directory of Royal Genealogical Data
At this site I have a database containing the genealogy of the British Royal family and those linked to it via blood or marriage relationships. It contains, in fact, the genealogy of almost every ruling house in the western world because of the intermarriage that took place between them at some time or another. There are in excess of 30,000 individuals from the earliest times to the present in the database.
The National Archives
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Explore 14 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 58 million patents, 3 million sound recordings, and much more. Find what you need - in the arts and humanities, sciences, or any subject
Britsih Library
British Library Newspaper Reading Room
British Library Newspapers, in Colindale (north London), provides access to the British Library's major collections of British and overseas newspapers . The collections also include popular magazines, trade papers and comics.
GENUKI: UK & Ireland Genealogy
GENUKI provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland. It is a non-commercial service, maintained by a charitable trust and a group of volunteers.Many sets of records were kept for England and Wales together, so that the problems of locating them and using them are very similar in the two countries. For convenience such records are described here, rather than on the British Isles pages. N.B. GENUKI is organised on the basis of historic counties. To find which GENUKI pages cover more modern counties and county boroughs, please see: Modern and Administrative Counties and County Boroughs . English Heritage are responsible for the care and repair of many buildings of historic importance.