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Scottish Book Trade Index

Index of printers, publishers, booksellers, bookbinders, printmakers, stationers and papermakers based in Scotland, from the beginnings of Scottish printing to circa 1850.

Scottsbluff 1890-1891 Farmers List

Scottsbluff County, Nebraska.

Slatesite

Welsh slate was used throughout the world.

Stone and Quarry Men of the West Country

A genealogical index of stone workers and related occupations in Cornwall and Devon from 1750 to 1900.

Stone Quarries & Beyond

Quarries, quarry workers, stone cutters & stone carvers, historical dealers of stone & the finished product. Includes a list of quarries by state.

Sugar Refiners & Sugarbakers

A database of some of those involved in the sugar refining industry, mainly in the United Kingdom from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

Sugar Refiners & Sugarbakers Database

Database of people in the UK sugar refining industry.

Texas Transportation Archive

The Texas Transportation Archive Employee Database Project attempts to “reconstruct” missing or destroyed employee records for railroad companies, steamboat lines, stage coach lines, etc. The database currently has records on approximately 10,000 individuals who were employed by transportation companies or companies that operated their own transportation departments, such as logging and mining companies. These records provide information on employee duties, years worked, vital information, sources of obituaries, etc. The Employee Database covers every region of Texas, and is continually being expanded.

The Brewery History Society

Dedicated to the promotion of research into the history of the brewing industry in the British Isles.

The British insurance business: a guide to its history & records

A book by H. A. L. Cockerell.

The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (CCEd)

Makes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century. The Database fills major gaps in our knowledge of one of the most important professions in early modern England and Wales. It provides an invaluable research tool for both national and local, academic and amateur historians, and genealogists who often need to discover biographical information about individual clergymen or more about the succession of clergy in a particular place. CCEd is a collaboration between historians at King’s College London, the University of Kent and the University of Reading, and it is supported by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London.

The Drapers Company of London

Its history, function and usefulness to genealogical researchers.

The Feather Trade

A virtual exhibition from the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History.

The Glovers of Fulton County

Research and documentation project that examines the glove industry of Fulton County, New York. Fulton County was long a center of world glove production. During the late 1800s and early decades of this century the county produced more than 90% of all fine leather gloves manufactured in the United States.

The Goldsmiths Company

One of the twelve great livery companies of the City of London.

The Match Workers Strike Fund Register

Scanned images of a register listing over 700 workers (mostly female) who went out on strike against the Bryant and May Match Factory in London in March, 1888.

The Mercer's Company Website

The premier livery company of the City of London.

The National Archives | The Catalogue | Research Guides: A to Z

United Kingdom.

The Oldest Profession in Texas: Waco's Legal Red Light District

From 1869 to 1918 more than 1,200 women lived as prostitutes in Waco, Texas—-once known as 'Six-Shooter Junction.' James Pylant and Sherri Knight's book, THE OLDEST PROFESSION IN TEXAS, examines the city's complex stance on prostitution, debunks myths, and unveils—-for the first time—-the true identities of several early madams.

The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant

A book by Pamela Horn.