Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of the project was to improve access to local and trade directories for the period 1750-1919 by making a substantial collection of English and Welsh directories available online as a Digital Library of Historical Directories. This digital resource comprises in total some 600 directories, covering every English county together with Wales, and ranging widely over the period 1750-1919 (the latter cut-off point chosen for copyright reasons). There is a particular focus on the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s, with at least one directory provided for each county in each of these decades. The digitisation of the volumes involved a two-stage process, in which (1) the hard-copy source was scanned to produce a graphic image of each page, and then (2) those images were processed using OCR software to generate a machine-readable text file.An online version of this resource can be found on the Website of the University of Leicester.
This data collection includes the following directories:- Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland (1881)- Commercial and General Directory of Leicester and Fifteen Miles Round, including the towns of Loughborough, Hinckley, Melton, and Market Harborough, 1883-84 (1884)- History, Gazetteer and Directory of Nottinghamshire, comprising a general survey of the county and separate historical, statistical, and topographical descriptions of all the wapentakes, boroughs, towns (1885)- Directory of Leicestershire, including Boroughs of Leicester and Loughborough, and Market Towns of Ashby- De-La-Zouch, Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough, Hinckley, &c., 1887-88 (1888)- Bennett's Business Directory. Leicestershire and Rutland (1888)- Directory of Leicester and Twelve Miles Round, including the boroughs of Leicester and Loughborough, and market towns of Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough, Hinckley, &c., 1889-90 (1890)- Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, and Nottinghamshire. [1891. Part 1: Derbyshire] (1891)- Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, and Nottinghamshire. [1891. Part 2: Leicestershire & Rutland] (1891)- Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, and Nottinghamshire. [1891. Part 3: Nottinghamshire] (1891)- Newark and District Directory; containing historical account of the town; places of worship; official directory of offices, officers and institutions ... a complete street directory in alphabetical order; alphabetical list of the clergy, professional and private residents (1892)- Directory of Leicestershire, including the boroughs of Leicester and Loughborough and market towns of Ashby-dela- Zouch, Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough, Hinckley, &c. (1892)- Directory of Nottingam and twelve miles round, including the town and environs of Mansfield, the greater part of South Notts, parts of Derbyshire and Leicestershire, the borough of Ilkeston and suburbs, with the townships and parishes of Southwell, Hucknall Torkard, Beeston, Bingham, Kegworth, Castle Donington, Sutton-in-Ashfield, &c., 1894-5 (1895)- Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Leicestershire & Rutland. [1895. Derbyshire only] (1895)- Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland (1895)- The Lace and Hosiery Trades Directory and Hand Book, containing a list of telegraphic addresses, telephone nos. pay days, postal rates, shipping & carrying information, parcels charges, letter collections & deliveries, foreign parcels rates, etc. (1897)- Directory of the City of Nottingham, including Basford, Bobbers Mill, Brewhouse Yard, Bridgford West (Part of), Bulwell, Carrington, Cavendish Hill, Cinder Hill, Hyson Green, Lenton, Mapperley, Park, Radford, St. Mary, St. Nicholas, St. Peter, Sherwood, Sneinton, Wilford (Part of), Woodthorpe, &c, 1898-9 (1899)- Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire & Rutland. [1899. Derbyshire section only] (1899)- Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland (1899)- Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland (1899)- Bennett's Business Directory for Leicestershire (1901-02)- Wright's Directory of the County Borough of Leicester (1903)- Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire (1904)
Main Topics:The directories included are of many different kinds, commonly embracing trade, commercial, and private resident directories, together with gazetteers, almanacs, official information, etc. For the purposes of deposit in the UK Data Archive, the collection has been divided into 35 studies on a regional and temporal basis.
No sampling (total universe)
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
