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Office-Holders In Modern Britain

Lists of officials who served in the departments of central government since the Restoration. Online lists include Clerks of the Privy Council, Clerks of the Privy Seal, Clerks of the Signet, The Household of Queen Victoria, and Officers of the Green Cloth.

ParishRegister.com - Watermen & Lightermen

Photographers of Great Britain and Ireland 1840 to 1940

Pub History - Predominantly 1600 to 1940

The pubwiki site lists the pubs which have existed over the past two hundred years, or so. The site only lists pubs which can actually be referenced, and proven as having existed.

Railway Archives

A not-for-profit online project which provides access to electronic copies of original documents, together with supporting data, which have played a key role in driving and reflecting change on the railways of the United Kingdom. Includes railway Law, safety, economics, and politics.

Railway Archives - Accident Archive

A not-for-profit online project for the railways of the United Kingdom.

Ranks, Professions, Occupations, and Trades

From the Cambridgeshire, EnglandGenWeb Project.

Records of London's Livery Companies Online - Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900

The Records of London's Livery Companies Online project is a partnership between the Centre for Metropolitan History, The Bowyers' Company, The Clothworkers' Company, The Drapers' Company, The Founders

Rossbret Workhouse Website

[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

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.

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

The Coalmining History Resource Centre

UK's largest and most comprehensive website concerning the history of coalmining - including a searchable database of over 164,000 recorded accidents and deaths.

The National Archives - Agricultural statistics of England and Wales

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

The National Archives (U.K.) - Apprentices and masters

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

United Kingdom.

The Postal Museum

Holds the records of the British Post Office from the seventeenth century to the present day.

The Steam Engine Makers' Society

The Union Makes Us Strong - Trades Union Council History