General Registration Districts, pre-1965 The National Archives
The Railway Archives - info on rail disasters Arcre - TNA Archive research and document copying Index of 19th century naval vessels
Parish Locator Software
British History Online Hearth Tax Online
Occupations of the Past
Smuggler's Britain
Royal Family Tree
The Victoria Files
Historical Directories: A digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919.
Directgov: You can order birth, marriage and death certificates here
Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland
UK Online Parish Clerks: Volunteers who collect genealogical information about specific parishes
Jan's Genealogy Links
GENUKI - UK and Ireland Genealogy
Vision of Britain: An excellent site, including old maps and transcriptions of old travel journals.
British Home Children: Resource site for descendants of 100,000 British Home Children emigrated to Canada from 1870-1948
Hidden Lives - Children in Care, 1881-1981 On Their Own - Britain's Child Migrants
The British Newspaper Archive
Chartists
Introduction to Deeds
Clergy of the Church of England Database
Adoption Search Reunion
Encyclopedia Titanica
Titanic-Titanic.com
TNA Titanic website
Cemetery Scribes: Jewish Tombstone inscriptions, Genealogy and Family History
British History Online
Francis Frith - Nostalgic Photos, Books, Maps and Memories
The Workhouse
History of Parliament
A selection of Poor Law Union and Workhouse records, available to download free from The National Archives
Church Plans On Line
Index of Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals
The Time Chamber - derelict, abandoned and converted buildings in Great Britain
Old Maps
British Postal Museum and Archive
A Vision of Britain Through Time
Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles
Pepys Diary
Lost Heritage - Lost country houses of England
The Country Seat - News about UK Country Houses
List of lost settlements in the UK
Lost villages - mapping lost, abandoned and deserted villages of the British Isles
List of towns in England
British Towns and Villages
Irish and British Villages
A Genealogical Index of Blacksmiths and Related Occupations
Community Archives
Inn History
Certificate Exchange
BMD Share
FreeReg
Parishmouse - free transcriptions of historical books and parish registers for England and Wales and a large collection of photos of churches and graves and illustrations from the old books.
Network Rail Archive
Ancestor Search - guidance on where to find info on English and Welsh ancestors
Here's History Kent
UK Genealogy Archives
Moving History - A guide to UK television and film archives in the public sector
Measuring Worth Royal Museums Greenwich Items Online http://www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/collections/by-type/archive-and-library/item-of-the-month/previous/
Spinning the Web - The Story of the Cotton Industry Cotton Times John Snow Case Study on Cholera Epidemics Timeline List of Famines and Pestilences in England Bethnal Green Tube Disaster 1943 Port Cities Making the Modern World Queen Victoria's Scrapbook Queen Victoria's Journals
Inner Temple Admissions Database Sugar Refiners and Sugarbakers Database Village Walks - History Trails East Midlands Oral History History of British Winters Britain From Above Hugh Wallis's IGI Middle Name Index Links to a range of parish records online Military
World War One Photos
The Army Children Archive
Website of the Anglo Boer War
The Long, Long Trail - The British Army in the Great War, 1914-1918
Scarlet Finders: British Military Nurses
Roll of Honour - Links to external sites
RAF personnel killed whilst on duty, including RAF Police Roll of Honour
National Army Museum
History of British 7th Armoured Division (Desert Rats)
Old Front Line - WWI Battlefields
Site dedicated to the men and women who flew and supported the B24 Bombers during WWII
Army Service Numbers, 1881-1918
North East Diary 1939 - 1945 The Wartime Memories Project 626 Squadron Ubique - Royal Engineers and Military Engineers of the British Empire and Commonwealth World War II Today The Labour Corps Clearing the Dead First World War. com - a multimedia history of WWI Atlas of the English Civil War Royal Pioneer Corps (ex-Labour Corps) Anglo Boer War website Firepower - Royal Artillery Museum British Military History
Police, Crime and Punishment
Victorian Crime and Punishment
TNA Guide to looking for police records
British Police Online Museum
Old Bailey Online
Black Sheep Index
Bedfordshire The website of All Saints Church, Renhold, Bedfordshire, including transcriptions of early parish records. http://www.all-saints-church-renhold.org/ Victorian Crime and Punishment - details, and some pics, of Bedfordshire prisoners
Bedfordshire Gaol Register
Cople, a small village in Bedfordshire - Family History
Fairfields Hall - Victorian Lunatic Asylum
History of Woburn
Berkshire
Berkshire Record Office - Stories from Broadmoor
Hurst - history and parish records
Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire County Council Online Resources - including prison database
Newport Pagnell Police Museum
Wolverton, Milton Keynes, history
Cambridgeshire Kirtling and Upend villages, East Cambridgeshire Cheshire
1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment
Cheshire Police Museum
Cheshire Villages, Parishes and Townships
16th - 19th century maps of Cheshire
Congleton history - 1800s Registrar General's reports
Kelsall parish records History of Sandbach Cornwall
Alverton - West of Penzance
St Allen Parish Records
Callington Area Parish Records Illogan Parish Records West Penwith Resources
Co. Durham History of Boldon, including information about Boldon Colliery. Durham Cathedral Registers
Durham Museum - some searchable military info on here
Swalwell on Tyne, Co. Durham
Durham records online Derbyshire
Old Duffield
The Andrews Pages - Genealogy and Local History
Glossop Heritage
Derby Photos
Spondon, a village remembered
Full text of White's 1857 Derbyshire Directory Belper records Wirksworth Parish Records
Devon Roy Parkhouse's Genealogy Site - covering Devon and Somerset family history
Devon Heritage - lots of information and articles about people and places in the county of Devon Ashburton, Devon
Luppitt records Hartland archives and local newspaper Witheridge history
Dorset Verwood history and records http://www.verwoodhistorical.org/index.htm Talbot Village history and some records http://www.opcdorset.org/TalbotVillage/Talbot.htm Glanvilles Wootton Parish Records http://www.opcdorset.org/GlanvillesWoottonFiles/GlanvillesWootton.htm Burial records of Wyke Regis, Melcombe Regis and Weymouth http://webapps-wpbc.dorsetforyou.com/apps/communities/genealogy
Essex
History House - history of Essex
Gloucestershire
History of Chipping Campden
Hampshire Wherwell Village History Parish records of St Mary's, Crawley Hampshire on-line parish records Knight Roots - some Hampshire parish records Hertfordshire Goldings, Hertford - Dr. Barnardo's Home and The William Baker Memorial Technical School for Boys Isle of Man A Manx Notebook
Kent Cityark (Rochester Archdeaconry area, extending from Dartford and Gravesend in the west to Rainham in the east and focusing on the Medway Towns)
Medway Ancestors Marriage Register Indexes Kent Online Parish Clerks, with links to other OPC websites
Dover History website
Here's History Kent website
Kent Wills
History of Faversham, Kent
Kent Police Museum
Discover Gravesham
Elham Valley Website
Mid-Kent Marriage Index
The Dover Society - interesting info about Dover
Kent Archives online catalogue
Kent Archives
Hartley History Hartley Archdeacon's Visitations The Weald - history and genealogy Historic Canterbury Janet & Richards' Genealogy - Lots of Isle of Thanet info
Lancashire List of casualties of the Pretoria Pit Disaster Lancashire Online Parish Clerk
Lancaster Castle
Manchester Family History
Our Manchester
Historical and Genealogical Information for the Salford Hundred.
Old Maps of Lancashire
A Manchester View
Cotton Town - Blackburn with Darwen
Lancashire Genealogy Records Lancashire Cemetery records
Leicestershire
Whitwick History
My Leicestershire ... history
Lincolnshire
History of Lincolnshire
Some interesting articles, particularly about Lincolnshire history Stickney History Bardney History Morton and Hanthorpe Bourne History
London London Family History Centre Catalogue
Metropolitan Police History Old London Maps
Thames Pilot
Thames Police Museum
20th London Regiment
London Gazette
Jack the Ripper website - lots of info and links re Whitechapel and Bethnal Green areas of London
London Blitz 1940 - Full list of first day's bomb attacks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/sep/06/london-blitz-bomb-map-september-7-1940?fb=native
Edith's Streets: A blog of notes about London streets, each posting based on one square of the Ordnance Survey Grid. Amazing!!
Charles Booth Online Archive
London Underground History - Disused Stations on London's Underground
Secret London
Hidden London
Metropolitan Police Museum
GenDocs - Aids to London genealogical research
Victorian London Public Institutions
History of Peabody Buildings
The London Ancestor
Ideal Homes - A History of South East London Suburbs
Brickfields - Victorian Hackney
London Lives, 1690 - 1800 - Crime, Poverty and Social Policy The Bloomsbury Project Bethlem Royal Hospital Bethlem Royal Hospital records online Lost Hospitals of London History and descriptions of Tower Hamlets area Database of 19th century photographers Deptford History St Marylebone Parish Church records V2 Bomb sites West End at War Lewisham Heritage's Gallery
Middlesex
The Parish Church of St James, Hampton Hill - including Church Magazine archives and churchyard records online
Middlesex Parish Records
Norfolk
Norfolk Transcription Archive NOAH: Norfolk Online Access to Heritage
Broadland Memories: Life and Leisure on the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads in the 20th century (inc. info re Zeppelin raids)
Foxearth and District Local History Society - Great info about East Anglia!
Norfolk Mills
Norfolk Churches
Norfolk Annals - 1801-1850
Paddy Apling's site - lots of Norfolk info on here
History of Buxton, near Norwich
North Walsham Archives http://www.northwalshamarchive.co.uk/ Norfolk Community Archives Network http://www.remembernorfolk.org/ Norfolk Sources Hethersett Genealogy Hockwold-cum-Wilton parish records and history Salthouse history and genealogy, including some parish records Deserted Norfolk villages Great Yarmouth History Northamptonshire
History of Sulgrave, Northants.
A Family Story - History of Desborough
Northumberland
South Shields, South Tyneside
Lots of photos of Old Hebburn, Jarrow and South Shields.
Donmouth: Articles on the local history of North-East England, with a particular focus upon Jarrow
Hartlepool
Pictures of Gateshead and the surrounding area
Keys to the Past: History of County Durham and Northumberland
Archives: Tyne & Wear
Names of people on the Jarrow March of 1936
Nottinghamshire
Selected Nottinghamshire Parish Records
Parish records for the village of Bunny, a few miles south of Nottingham
History of Beeston
Oxfordshire
History on the streets of Oxford
Shropshire Secret Shropshire Broseley history - including parish records and directories
Somerset Loxton village, Somerset http://www.loxtonsomerset.org.uk/records.html
Sages of Nailsea - lots of links to Somerset PRs Staffordshire
History of Bloxwich
Victorian Wolverhampton
Staffordshire Past Track
Suffolk Woodbridge, Suffolk (Non-conformist church records) Suffolk Mills
Glemsford Village History
Surrey
Exploring Surrey's Past
History of Surrey Police
Epsom and Ewell History Explorer Old Woking history
Sussex
Sussex Online Parish Clerks
Sussex Police Museum
Sussex Record Society - lots of records online Sussex Record Society - Poor Law Database
Warwickshire
Coventry at War
A History of Birmingham Places and Placenames
Digital Ladywood, Birmingham
General history info on the Quinton area of Birmingham
Memories of WWII in the Quinton area of Birmingham
Warwickshire Online Parish Clerks
Salford Priors
Westmorland
Westmorland Papers - Transcriptions of Westmorland parish records
Wiltshire Aldbourne, Wiltshire http://www.treelines.co.uk/OPC/opcintro.html
Wiltshire Online Parish Clerks http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/
Yorkshire Driffield and the Wolds genealogy
The Goole Experience: Useful information for researchers in the Goole area of East Yorkshire History to Herstory: Celebrating the lives of women in Yorkshire from the 1100s to the present day.
The Sheffield Indexers
Yorkshire Film Archive
Rotherham Web: Parish Registers: Rotherham, Ecclesfield, Boston, Lincoln, Derbyshire, Worksop, Nottingham
Historical and genealogical info about Farnley, Leeds
Dig Hungate, York
Fire and Police Museum, Sheffield
Yorkshire Law and Order Museums, Ripon
Pocklington History
Yorkshire Archaeological Society
Imagine York - a showcase of photographs of York
http://www.imagineyork.co.uk/
St John's and Roundhay, Leeds History http://www.stjohnsroundhay.co.uk/history.html Local history in North East Leeds
History of the Anlaby Road, Hull
History of Grangetown, nr. Middlesbrough
York Local List - York's heritage
History of Hull
Holgate Windmill
The Yorkshire Regiment
Pocklington Parish Records Leeds Absent Voters List Stanley Royd Hospital - digital archive of former Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield Twixt Aire and Calder - photographic archive of the Wakefield area Calderdale Companion Humber River Transport Goole Ships York Cause Papers Humber River Pilots
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