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Ranks, Professions, Occupations, and Trades

From the Cambridgeshire, EnglandGenWeb Project.

Significant Dates For English And Welsh Family History Sources

The National Archives - National Farm Survey of England and Wales 1941-1943

The Taxatio | Manuscripts Online

Searchable online database contains the valuation, plus related details, of the English and Welsh parish churches and prebends listed in the ecclesiastical taxation assessment of 1291-2.

The Village Labourer 1760-1832

Originally published 1911.

Through Mighty Seas - Maritime History and British Sailing Ships

The history of merchant sailing ships from the NW of England, with individual histories of 600 sailing ships, indexed by region.

Tudor England - 1485 to 1603

University of Sheffield - Archives of Cultural Tradition

Useful dates in British history

For the local historian or genealogist.

Victoria County History

The Greatest Publishing Project in English Local History. Founded in 1899 and originally dedicated to Queen Victoria, the VCH is an encyclopaedic record of England's places and people from earliest times to the present day.

Victoria Research Web

Resources for research into the history and culture of 19th-century Britain.

Victorian Dictionary

Guide to the social history of Victorian London.