13. History

Local and social history

Local history

• [200] BBC History: Local History
• [200] National Archives: Local History: Your Guide to Resources
• [200] Local History Magazine Getting Started
• [200] Victoria County History
• [200] Victoria County History: VCH Counties in progress
• [201] British History Online
• [201] Medieval English Genealogy
• [201] Medieval English Genealogy: Victoria County History: place index
• [201] Statistical Accounts of Scotland
• [201] Knowsley Local History
• [201] Digital Handsworth
• [201] Wiltshire Community History
• [201] Kingston Local History
• [201] Tomorrow's History
• [201] PortCities
• [201] Powys Heritage Online
• [201] Swansea History Web - some materials can now be accessed only by subscribers
• [201] The Gaelic Village
• [201] EnrichUK
• [202] Tithe Titles for Kelsall, Cheshire
• [202] Genuki: Tithe Book of Bolton with Goldthorpe, 1839
• [202] English Surnames Survey
• [202] Genuki: Online Parish Clerks
• [203] David Hawgood, One-Place Genealogy
• [203] David Hawgood, One-Place Genealogy: List of Studies by County
• [203] RootsWeb: ONE-PLACE-STUDY mailing list
• [203] British-Genealogy: Place Forums
• [203] Collect Britain: English Accents and Dialects
• [203] Curious Fox

Social History

• [204] National Archives: Research Guides
• [204] Victorian Web: Victorian Social History
• [204] Workhouses
• [204] Rossbret Institutions Website
• [204] GenDocs: Victorian London Public Institutions
• [204] Hidden Lives
• [204] Powys Heritage Online: A choice of themes
• [204] Scots Origins: Scottish Family History Articles
• [204] Electric Scotland: Social History of the Highlands
• [204] Spartacus Educational
• [205] Spartacus Educational: Textile Industry
• [205] Workhouses

Societies

• [205] Local History Magazine: Local History Directory
• [205] British Association for Local History: Links

Mailing Lists

• [206] Yahoo Groups: sussexpast
• [206] HAMPSHIRE-LIFE
• [206] local-history mailing list
• [206] RootsWeb: WALES-LOCAL-HISTORY mailing list

Names

Origins

• [206] Ancestry: Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames
• [206] Ancestor Search An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import
• [206] Last Name Meanings: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import
• [206] William Arthur, Essay On The Origin And Import Of Family Names
• [207] SURNAME-ORIGINS mailing list
• [207] English Surname List
• [207] Cyndi's List: Surnames, Family Associations & Family Newsletters - General Surname Sites

Variants

• [207] Guild of One-Name Studies: Register of One-Name Studies
• [207] Thesaurus of British Surnames
• [207] National Archives & Records Administration: The Soundex Indexing System
• [207] Image Partners: NameX
• [207] Thesaurus of British Surnames: Links: On-line Surname Matching Systems

Distribution

• [207] FamilySearch
• [208] Surname Distribution Analysis
• [208] Surname distribution
• [208] Surname Distributions for Cornwall, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Scotland
• [208] GROS: Surnames in Scotland over the last 140 years
• [208] GROS: Ten Most Common Surnames in the Counties of the 1901 Census
• [208] Modern British Surnames
• [208] Gloucestershire Names and their Occurrence

Forenames

• [208] Behind the Name
• [208] About.com: Naming Patterns for Countries & Cultures
• [208] Diminutives and Alternative Names for the Most Common English Christian Names
• [208] Latinized Given Names
• [208] National Statistics
• [209] GROS: Popular Forenames in Scotland, 1900-2000
• [209] Image Partners: Forename Thesaurus

Understanding old documents

Handwriting

• [210] English Handwriting 1500-1700
• [210] National Archives: Palaeography: reading old handwriting 1500 - 1800. A practical online tutorial
• [210] Scottish Handwriting
• [210] Medieval & Early Modern Palaeography
• [210] Medieval Writing
• [211] Medieval Writing: Abbreviations
• [211] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list
• [211] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list: Contents
• [211] FreeBMD: Reading the Writing
• [211] 1901 Census of Ottawa and Carleton Project: Reading Handwriting

Dates and calendars

• [211] Regnal Year Calculator
• [211] Table of dates given in the old terms of year of monarch's reign
• [212] On-line Calendar of Saints' Days
• [212] Catholic Encyclopedia: Dates And Dating
• [212] Mike Spathaky, Old Style And New Style Dates And The Change To The Gregorian Calendar
• [212] Calendar Act of 1751
• [212] Roman Numeral And Date Conversion
• [212] Calendopaedia
• [212] Calendopaedia: The Gregorian Calendar
• [212] Genuki: Perpetual Calendar
• [212] Medieval English Genealogy: Chronology and dating
• [212] Ultimate Calendar Webpage

Latin

• [212] ItalianGenealogy: Reading Latin Documents
• [212] Latin Word List
• [212] Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
• [212] Latin Word List
• [213] An On-line Latin-English/English-Latin Dictionary Client (Java)
• [213] Hard Little Words: Prepositions, Adverbs, Conjunctions (With Some Definitions of Medieval Usage)
• [213] Latin Primer
• [213] Latin terms found in genealogical and historical records
• [213] Translating Latin Documents
• [213] soc.genealogy.medieval FAQ
• [213] Genealogy Resources on the Internet: LATIN-WORDS mailing list
• [213] LATIN-WORDS mailing list archive
• [213] Oxford English Dictionary

Technical terms

• [213] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list
• [213] OLD-WORDS mailing list
• [213] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list archives
• [213] OLD-WORDS mailing list archives
• [214] OLD-ENGLISH web site
• [214] OLD-ENGLISH: Links...
• [214] Dictionary of the Scots Language
• [214] A Glossary of Scots Terms
• [214] Leicestershire Agricultural Terms
• [214] Legal Terms in Land Records
• [214] HM Revenue & Customs: Scottish land law terms

• [214] Scottish Archive Network: Glossary
• [214] Manorial Society of Great Britain: Glossary of Manorial Terms
• [214] MedTerms
• [214] On-line Medical Dictionary
• [215] Archaic Medical Terms
• [215] Antiquus Morbus
• [215] Cyndi's List: Medical & Medicine

• [215] Medieval Palaeography
• [215] Roman Numeral And Date Conversion
• [215] Historical Metrology: Old English Units
• [215] Old Imperial Lengths & Areas, etc
• [215] Dictionary of Measures
• [215] Dictionary of Measures: English Customary Measures
• [215] Cyndi's List: Weights and Measures

• [215] Hypertext Medieval Glossary
• [215] Glossary Of Medieval Terms ? - archived version

Value of Money

• [216] House of Commons: Inflation: the Value of the Pound 1750–1998
• [216] Historical value of money in UK
• [216] Relative Value of Sums of Money
• [216] Economic History Services: The Purchasing power of the pound
• [216] Economic History Services: How much is that?
• [216] What's A Guinea?
• [217] Scottish Archive Network: Scots Currency Converter
• [217] National Statistics: Retail Price Index
• [217] National Statistics: Retail Price Index Table
• [217] Current value of Old Money
• [217] Wages and the cost of living in Southern England 1450-1700