Research Resources

A list of useful resources for the researching of UK Industrial history

• Ancestry - Genealogical information. Includes the membership records of the Civil and Mechanical Institutions and others
• Companies House
• British Library
• Dictionary of National Biography - Early versions out of copyright
• Dictionary of National Biography - Current version (Subscription)
• Family Seach (IGI) - Early genealogical information
• Free BMD
• Wikitree
• Flight Global - Flight Magazine from 1909
• The Gazette - Statutory notices
• Hathi Digital Library
• Engineering and Technology History Wiki
• European Patent Office

• Directories of England and Wales - A collection of digitised trade directories, covering England and Wales from the 1760s to the 1910s.
• Directories of Scotland

• Old Maps]

• Institution of Civil Engineers Library - Minutes of the Proceedings
• Institution of Electrical Engineers
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers Library
• Museum of English Rural Life -
• British Listed Buildings

• National Archives - If there is an archive for the company then this national index probably lists it with its current location
• Archives Hub
• Canmore - Historic Environment Scotland
• British History Online
• 1851 census street index

• Early maps
• Patents - Google Patents
• Patents - Index of Specifications of Patents. 1857.
• Peerage -
• Scottish Post Office Directories
• Wikipedia
• WWI
• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

• National Traction Engine Trust
• Google - The dotcom version

Newspapers

• Australia, National Library of
• British Newspaper Archive
• New Zealand, National Library of
• Welsh Newspapers
• Daily Telegraph Obituaries
• Independent Newspaper 1992- - Searchable for modern obituaries etc.
• The Times Newspaper -
• Access for Cornwall Library members - 28009018028695

Technical Bits

• Web site speed test
• Connection speed test
• Stats - google@tweedie

Book location

• AbeBooks - Almost any book from any book seller in the world
• Copac - Locate volumes held in libraries
• Worldcat - Locate volumes held in libraries

• Lathes

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