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:- Bailey's Western and Midland Directory; or Merchant's and Tradesman's Useful Companion, for the year, 1783. Containing an alphabetical list of the names and places of abode, of the bankers, merchants, manufacturers, gentlemen of the law and physic, and other eminent traders ... [Cornwall section only] (1783)- Pigot's Directory of Cornwall (1830)- The Exeter Journal and Almanack for 1850 ... containing all the most useful county and local information necessary for the private gentleman, clergy and professional man, the merchant, tradesman, farmer, seaman, &c. with complete memorandum and account book (1850)- History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire, and the city and county of the city of Exeter (1850)- The Exeter Journal and Almanack for 1851 ... containing all the most useful county and local information necessary for the private gentleman, clergy and professional man, the merchant, tradesman, farmer, seaman, &c. with complete memorandum and account book (1851)- A Directory of Plymouth, Stonehouse, Devonport, Stoke, and Moricetown, compiled from actual survey (1852)- The Exeter Journal and Almanack for 1852 ... containing all the most useful county & local information, necessary for the private gentleman, clergy and professional man, the merchant, tradesman, farmer, seaman, &c. with complete memorandum and account book (1852)- The Exeter Journal and Almanack for 1853 ... containing all the most useful county & local information, necessary for the private gentleman, clergy and professional man, the merchant, tradesman, farmer, seaman, &c. with complete memorandum and account book (1853)- West of England Pocket Book, or gentleman's diary, with an almanack (1853)- The Exeter Journal and Almanack for 1854 ... containing all the most useful county & local information, necessary for the private gentleman, clergy and professional man, the merchant, tradesman, farmer, seaman, &c. with complete memorandum and account book (1854)- The Exeter Journal and Almanack for 1855 ... containing all the most useful county & local information, necessary for the private gentleman, clergy and professional man, the merchant, tradesman, farmer, seaman, &c. with complete memorandum and account book (1855)- The Exeter Pocket Journal and Almanac, with a memorandum and account book (1856)- Post Office Directory of Cornwall (1856)- The Exeter Pocket Journal and Almanack, with a memorandum and account book (1857)- West of England and Trewman's Exeter Pocket Journal, or Gentleman's Diary, with an almanac (1858)- West of England and Trewman's Exeter Pocket Journal, or Gentleman's Diary, with an Almanack (1859)- A Directory of Redruth and its Neighbourhood; being an alphabetical list of the residences, names, & trades of persons residing in the four parishes of Redruth, Illogan, Gwennap, and Stithians, with a brief history of Redruth, Carnbrea, & Gwennap Pit, and a list of the mines and their managers (1866)- Post Office Cornwall Directory (1873)- History, Gazetteer and Directory of the county of Devon including the city of Exeter, and comprising a general survey of the county and separate historical, statistical, and topographical descriptions of all the hundreds, unions, parishes, townships, chapelries, towns, ports, villages & hamlets (1878-79)- Kelly's Directory of Cornwall (1883)- A Trade and General Directory of the City of Truro, with ... notice of its institutions, list of clergy in diocese, &c. (1883)- A Trade and General Directory of the City of Truro, with ... notice of its institutions, list of clergy in diocese, &c. (1888)- Kelly's Directory of Cornwall (1889)- Kelly's Directory of Devonshire (1889)- Eyre's Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory, embracing also Stonehouse, Saltash, and the district five miles round and including historical sketches of the three towns and district (1890)- The Post Office Directory of Falmouth & Neighbourhood (1892)- Kelly's Directory of Devonshire and Cornwall. [1893. Part 1. Devon: County & Localities] (1893)- Kelly's Directory of Devonshire and Cornwall. [1893. Part 2. Devon: Court & Trades Directories] (1893)- Kelly's Directory of Devonshire and Cornwall. [1893. Part 3: Cornwall & Advertisements] (1893)- Besley's Post Office Directory of Exeter and Suburbs, for 1894-5 (1895)- The Tiverton and District Directory 1894-5, comprising a specially compiled and carefully arranged list of residents in Tiverton and forty-three adjacent parishes (1895)- Eyre's Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory, embracing also Stonehouse, Saltash, and the district five miles round, and including historical sketches of the three towns and district (1895)- The Post Office Directory of Falmouth & Neighbourhood (1895)- The Post Office Directory of Exeter and Suburbs for 1895-6 (1896)- Kelly's Directory of Cornwall (1897)- The Post Office Directory of Falmouth & Neighbourhood (1898)- Kelly's Directory of Devonshire & Cornwall, 1902. [Part 1: Devon] (1902)- Kelly's Directory of Devonshire & Cornwall, 1902. [Part 2: Cornwall] (1902)- The Post Office Directory of Falmouth & Neighbourhood (1902)
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
