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:- A Directory of Sheffield; including the manufacturers of the adjacent villages: with the several marks of the cutlers, scissor & filesmiths, edgetool, & sickle makers. To which are added, the regular setting out and return of the posts; and a correct list of the coaches & waggons (1787)- The Leeds Directory for the year 1798. Containing an alphabetical list of the corporation, clergy, merchants, professors of the law and physic, manufacturers, traders, &c.; also particulars of the mail and other coaches, waggons, and the navigation barges, by which goods and merchandise are conveyed from this town (1798)- Directory, General and Commercial, of the Town & Borough of Leeds, for 1817, containing an alphabetical list of the merchants, manufacturers, tradesmen, and inhabitants in general ... to which is prefixed, a brief but comprehensive history of the borough (1817)- History, Directory & Gazetteer of the County of York; with select lists of the merchants & traders of London and the principal commercial and manufacturing towns of England ... also a copious list of the seats of the nobility and gentry of Yorkshire. Vol. I: West Riding (1822)- History, Directory & Gazetteer, of the County of York; with a variety of commercial, statistical, and professional information: also, copious lists of the seats of the nobility and gentry of Yorkshire. Vol. II: East & North Ridings (1823)- A New, General, & Commercial Directory of Sheffield and its Vicinity, in which the names, occupations, &c. are copiously compiled, and alphabetically arranged; also, a classification of all that are engaged in the various branches of the Sheffield manufacture (1825)- General and Commercial Directory of the Borough of Leeds; including the out-townships of Armley, Beeston, Bramley, Chapeltown, Farnley, Headingley, with Burley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Potter-Newton, and Wortley (1826)- Leeds and Clothing District Directory (1830)- History, and General Directory, of the Borough of Sheffield, with Rotherham, Chesterfield, and all the villages and hamlets within a circuit of ten miles round the Capital of Hallamshire; including a topographical survey of each parish ... and a variety of commercial and statistical information (1833)- General and Commercial Directory of the Borough of Leeds; including the out-townships of Armley, Beeston, Bramley, Chapeltown, Farnley, Headingley, Burley, Kirkstall, Holbeck, Hunslet, Potternewton, Wortley, and several of the principal neighbouring villages (1834)- Directory and Topography of the Borough of Leeds, and the whole of the Clothing District of the West Riding of Yorkshire, including Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Bingley, Keighley, and about six hundred villages and hamlets (1842)- Directory and Topography of Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, and the whole of the clothing districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire; including also Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Bingley, Keighley, Skipton, Settle, Otley, and about six hundred villages and hamlets (1847)- General Directory of the town and borough of Sheffield, with Rotherham, Chesterfield, and all the parishes, townships, villages, and hamlets, within a circuit of about twelve miles round the capital of Hallamshire (1849)- Ibbetson's General and Classified Directory, Street List and History of Bradford and the Wool Trade and Worsted Manufactures; comprising also an alphabetical list of the principal merchants and manufacturers ... the gentry, clergy, and the various tradesmen and shopkeepers (1850)- General Directory and Topography of Kingston-upon-Hull and the City of York, with Beverley, Bridlington ... and many of the villages and parishes in the East Riding (1851)- Gazetteer and General Directory of Sheffield, and all the towns, parishes, townships and villages within the distance of twenty miles round Sheffield (1852)- Directory of Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Goole, Selby, Pontefract, Tadcaster, Wetherby, Otley, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Boston Spa, Ripon, Boroughbridge, Skipton, Settle, Dewsbury, Bingley, Keighley and all the villages in the Yorkshire Clothing Districts (1854)- General Directory of the Town, Borough, and Parish of Sheffield, and the large parishes of Rotherham, Wath, Ecclesfield, Rawmarsh, Whiston, Wickersley, Norton, Dronfield, Eckington, &c (1856)- Lunds' Bradford Directory; comprising the names, occupation, places of business, residences, etc., of the clergy, gentry, merchants, manufacturers, tradesmen, and the principal inhabitants carrying on business or resident in the borough (1856)- Directory and Topography of the Boroughs of Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, and Wakefield; Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, and Holmfirth, and the villages and townships ... in and near the Yorkshire woollen district (1858)- General and Commercial Directory and Topography of the Borough of Sheffield, with all the towns, parishes, villages, and hamlets within a circuit of twenty mile (1862)- Directory of Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Wakefield, Dewsbury ... and all parishes and villages in and near those populous districts of the West Riding, forming the great seats of the woollen and worsted manufactures (1866)- White's General and Commercial Directory of Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Batley, Keighley, Bingley, Ilkley, Otley, Skipton, Todmorden, Holmfirth, Saddleworth, and all the parishes and villages in and near those populous districts of the West Riding forming the great seats of the woollen and worsted manufactures (1870)- White's General and Commercial Directory of Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Chesterfield, and Worksop, and all the parishes, townships, and villages within a distance of twelve miles from Sheffield as a centre (1879)- The Post-Office Bradford Directory 1879-80 ... comprising the area of the Bradford postal district and parts of the Shipley and Idle postal districts (1879)- Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire [Part 1: County Information & Places A-K] (1881)- Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire [Part 2: Places L-Y] (1881)- Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire [Part 3: Court & Trade Directories] (1881)- White's General and Commercial Directory of Hull, Beverley, Patrington, Cottingham, Hedon, Hessle, Preston, Sutton, and all the parishes and villages north of the Humber within a radius of 12 miles from Hull ... also the towns of Grimsby and Barton-on-Humber (1882)- The Post-Office Bradford Directory, 1883 ... comprising the area of the Bradford postal district and part of the Shipley postal district (1883)- Directory of York and Neighbourhood, including all villages within 6 miles of York, containing the private & commercial residents (alphabetically arranged), court directory, the trades classified, ... historical notes, local intelligence, &c. (1885)
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
