History

General resources

• [260] Royal Historical Society: Bibliography - replaced by the subscription Bibliography of British and Irish History
• [260] Intute: History

Local history

• [261] BBC History: Local History
• [261] National Archives: Local History
• [261] Local History Magazine: Getting Started
• [261] Victoria County History
• [261] British History Online
• [261] Internet Archive
• [261] Medieval English Genealogy
• [261] Medieval English Genealogy: Victoria County History: lists of contents and place index
• [261] Statistical Accounts of Scotland
• [262] PortCities
• [262] Tomorrow's History
• [262] Knowsley (Lancs) Local History
• [262] Digital Handsworth
• [262] Wiltshire Community History
• [262] Kingston Local History project
• [262] Recording Uttlesford History
• [262] The Gaelic Village
• [262] TheGlasgowStory
• [262] Gathering the Jewels
• [262] Powys Heritage Online
• [262] Local Heritage Initiative
• [262] Genuki: On-line Parish Clerks
• [263] Climate History in the British Isles
• [263] Local History magazine: Local History Directory
• [263] British Association for Local History
• [263] LOCAL-HISTORY mailing list
• [263] RootsWeb: ONE-PLACE-STUDY mailing list
• [263] British-Genealogy: One Place Studies forum
• [263] Curious Fox
• [264] Yahoo Groups: sussexpast
• [264] RootsWeb: LANARK-HISTORY mailing list
• [264] RootsWeb: LONDON-LIFE mailing list
• [264] RootsWeb: WALES-LOCAL-HISTORY mailing list

Social history

• [264] National Archives: Research guides
• [264] Victorian Web: Victorian Social History
• [265] Workhouses
• [265] Rossbret: Institutions
• [265] County Asylums
• [265] GenDocs: Workhouses, Hospitals, Lunatic Asylums, Prisons, Barracks, Orphan Asylums, Convents, and other Principal Charitable Institutions
• [265] Hidden Lives
• [265] Small and Special - material now forms part of The Historic Hospital Admission Registers Project
• [265] Powys Heritage Online: The local history of Powys: A choice of themes
• [265] Scots Origins: Scottish Family History Articles
• [265] Electric Scotland: Social History of the Highlands
• [265] Spartacus Educational
• [266] Spartacus Educational: The Textile System

Names

• [267] Cyndi's List: General Surname Sites
• [267] Wikipedia: Family name
• [267] Behind the Name: English Names
• [267] About.com: Glossary of Last Name Meanings and Origins
• [267] William Arthur: Essay On The Origin And Import Of Family Names
• [267] SURNAME-ORIGINS-L mailing list
• [267] Guild of One-Name Studies: Register of One-Name Studies
• [268] Thesaurus of British Surnames
• [268] National Archives and Records Administration: Soundex
• [268] NameX
• [268] Thesaurus of British Surnames: Links: On-line Surname Matching Systems
• [268] FamilySearch
• [268] National Trust Names
• [268] Surname Distribution Analysis
• [268] GROS: Surnames in Scotland over the last 140 years
• [269] Wikipedia: List of most common surnames
• [269] Modern British Surnames. The main site has gone, but this version remains accessible. However, the material from the old site is being redeveloped at Surname Studies
• [269] Gloucestershire Names and their Occurrence
• [270] OUP: Concise Dictionary of First Names
• [270] Behind the Name
• [270] What's In a Name
• [270] About.com: Naming Patterns for Countries & Cultures
• [270] Diminutives and Alternative Names for the Most Common English Christian Names
• [270] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list: Latinized Given Names
• [270] National Statistics
• [270] National Statistics: Forename frequency reports
• [270] GROS: Popular Forenames in Scotland, 1900-2000
• [270] Image Partners: Forename Thesaurus
• [270] Edgar's Name Page: A Brief Discussion of Nicknames and Diminutives

Understanding old documents

• [271] English Handwriting 1500-1700
• [271] National Archives: Palaeography: reading old handwriting 1500 - 1800
• [271] Scottish Handwriting.com
• [271] University of Leicester: An Introduction to Palaeography
• [271] Medieval Writing
• [271] Medieval Writing: Abbreviations
• [271] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list
• [271] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list: Contents
• [271] FreeBMD: Reading the Writing
• [272] Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University: How do I read an old document?
• [272] Regnal Year Calculator
• [272] Table of dates given in the old terms of year of monarch's reign.
• [273] On-line Calendar of Saints' Days
• [273] Catholic Encyclopedia: Dates And Dating
• [273] Genuki: Old Style And New Style Dates And The Change To The Gregorian Calendar
• [273] Calendars through the Ages: Calendar Act of 1751
• [273] Roman Numeral And Date Conversion
• [273] Calendopaedia
• [273] Calendopaedia: The Gregorian Calendar
• [273] Genuki: Perpetual Calendar
• [273] Medieval English Genealogy: Chronology and dating
• [273] Ultimate Calendar Webpage
• [273] Reading Latin Documents
• [273] Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
• [273] Lynn H. Nelson: Latin Word List
• [273] An On-line Latin-English/English-Latin Dictionary Client (Java)
• [274] Hard Little Words: Prepositions, Adverbs, Conjunctions (With Some Definitions of Medieval Usage)
• [274] Latin Primer
• [274] Ancestry solutions: Latin terms found in genealogical and historical records
• [274] Eva Holmes: Translating Latin Documents
• [274] soc.genealogy.medieval FAQ: Glossary & Common Abbreviations
• [274] RootsWeb: LATIN-WORDS mailing list
• [274] RootsWeb: LATIN-WORDS mailing list archive
• [274] Dictionary of the Scots Languag
• [274] The Wedderburn Pages: Glossary
• [275] Department of Welsh, Lampeter: Welsh-English/English¬-Welsh On-line Dictionary
• [275] Irish Gaelic Translator.comIrish Dictionary .org
• [275] Relationships, Family
• [275] Wikipedia
• [275] Translations and Word Origins Mailing Lists
• [275] OLD-ENGLISH list archives
• [275] OLD-WORDS list archives
• [275] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list
• [275] OLD-ENGLISH mailing list: Links
• [275] Leicestershire Agricultural Terms
• [275] Legal Terms in Land Records
• [276] Scottish Archive NetworkThe Glossary
• [276] Manorial Society of Great Britain: Glossary of Manorial Terms
• [276] MedTerms
• [276] University of Newcastle: On-line Medical Dictionary
• [276] Antiquus Morbus
• [276] Cyndi's List: Medical & Medicine
• [276] Medieval palaeography
• [276] Roman Numeral and Date Conversion
• [276] Historical units
• [276] Old Imperial Lengths & Areas, etc
• [276] Dictionary of Measures
• [276] Dictionary of Measures: English Customary Measures/a>
• [276] Cyndi's List: Weights and Measures
• [277] NetSERF: Hypertext Medieval Glossary
• [277] Glossary Of Medieval Terms (at the Waybackmachine)
• [277] House of Commons: Inflation: the Value of the Pound 1750-1998
• [277] Historical value of money in UK
• [277] Measuring Worth: Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1264 to 2007
• [277] Measuring Worth: Five Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a UK Pound Amount, 1830 to Present
• [278] Alan Stanier: Relative Value of Sums of Money
• [278] National Archives: Currency converter
• [278] Scottish Archive Network: Scots Currency Converter
• [278] National Statistics: Retail Price Index
• [278] National Statistics: Retail Price Index 1947-2009
• [278] Roy Davies: Current value of Old Money
• [278] International Institute of Social History: Wages and the cost of living in Southern England 1450-1700
• [278] What's A Guinea?

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