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:- History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, with that part of the Lake District in Lancashire forming the lordships of Furness and Cartmel (1829)- History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Cumberland; comprising a general survey of the county, and a history of the diocese of Carlisle; with separate historical, statistical, & topographical descriptions of all the boroughs, towns, parishes (1847)- History, Topography, and Directory of Westmorland, and of the Hundreds of Lonsdale and Amounderness in Lancashire (1851)- Post Office Directory of Cumberland (1858)- Post Office Directory of Westmoreland (1858)- The Post Office Directory of the principal towns and adjacent places in Cumberland and Westmorland (1873)- History, Topography and Directory of West Cumberland, comprising its ancient and modern history; a general view of its physical features; geological character, mines and minerals; trade, commerce and manufactures; statistics, &c., &c. (1883)- History, Topography, and Directory of Westmoreland, comprising its ancient and modern history; a general view of its physical features; its mines, manufactures and agricultural statistics; historical and descriptive sketches of each town, parish and manor (1885)- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (1894)- Kelly's Directory of Westmorland (1894)- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (1897)- Kelly's Directory of Westmorland (1897)- History, Topography, and Directory of Cumberland, comprising its history and archaeology; a general view of its physical and geological features; with separate historical and topographical descriptions of each town, parish (1901)- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (1906)- Kelly's Directory of Westmorland (1906)- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (1910)- Kelly's Directory of Westmorland (1910)- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland and Westmorland (1914)
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
