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 Wiltshire (1903)- Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire (1907)- Kelly's Directory of Dorsetshire (1911)- Kelly's Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands, 1911. [Hampshire & Isle of Wight only] (1911)- Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire (1911)- Gillman's Devizes Public Register and Business Directory for the Year of our Lord, 1913 (1913)- Warren's Winchester & District Directory, including 160 neighbouring places (corrected yearly). List of magistrates for the county, county aldermen, councillors and county officials (1913)- Gillman's Devizes Public Register and Business Directory for the Year of our Lord 1914 (1914)- Gillman's Devizes Public Register and Business Directory for the Year of our Lord, 1915 (1915)- Kelly's Directory of Dorsetshire (1915)- Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire (1915)- Gillman's Devizes Public Register and Business Directory for the Year of our Lord 1916 (1916)
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
