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The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day. An invaluable resource for researchers. |
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The archive of the Incorporated Church Building Society is now online. It includes correspondence, plans, building specifications, artists' impressions relating to the building or restoration of parish churches in England and Wales between 1818 and 1982. |
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This is the British Library’s largest digitisation project to date. Two collections which might be of interest to members are The Notebooks of Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (covering the period 1773-1794) – this includes 2,500 drawings Grimm made for Sir Richard Kaye, who eventually became Dean of Lincoln; and Early Ordnance Survey Maps of Nottinghamshire – including interactive images of maps for the Newark area, Nottingham and south west Nottinghamshire and the Trent valley north of Newark. |
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Links to websites on Nottinghamshire genealogy and history. |
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The website of David Roffe, a respected scholar whose research interests include the Danelaw, landscape history, church history, and insanity in the Middle Ages, includes papers on pre-Conquest Nottingham and a major article on the Nottinghamshire Domesday. |
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Leicester University is currently running a project to establish a digital library of 18th, 19th and early 20th century local and trade directories from England and Wales. Directories of counties and towns are among the most important sources for local and genealogical studies. Nottinghamshire trade directories already on line include White’s county directories for 1832 and 1885-86, and Wright’s directory of Nottingham, 1905. |
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The idea of this site is to capture, save and share memories, stories, tales & anecdotes of people's childhood, working and adult lives. The real history of Nottinghamshire is in the memories of it's people through their interaction with one another in place and time. |
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The whole 1901 Census for England and Wales has been made available as a searchable online resource. |
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Excellent resource for research on all aspects of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire history |
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"The University Library has been actively collecting manuscript and archive material for over seventy years and there are now over 3 million records in over 600 archive and manuscript collections. The holdings include the papers of leading Nottinghamshire families and their estates, the records of local businesses and organisations, including those the Archdeaconry of Nottinghamshire, the personal papers of political, diplomatic, literary, scientific and academic figures, as well as some of the historical records of the University and its predecessor. University College Nottingham." |
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FreeCEN's aim is to provide a free-to-view on-line searchable database of the census returns for the whole country. This page shows progress for Nottinghamshire. |
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"Nottinghamshire Archives houses historical archives for the county of Nottinghamshire, the city of Nottingham, the diocese of Southwell and other local bodies, families and individuals." |
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The Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway is designed to provide a guide to the heritage resources of the county, and a history of Nottinghamshire featuring the latest research. |
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Janet Rodgers' richly illustrated website describes visits to places of historic interest in Nottinghamshire and the surrounding counties; there is also information on Janet's recent publications. |
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"The Nottinghamshire Living History Archive Millennium Award Scheme aims to capture and record life in Nottinghamshire through the Millennium. The Millennium Award Scheme enables individuals to record in sound and vision the modern history of a Nottinghamshire community as witnessed by its inhabitants." |
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Heather Faulkes website provides information on the history of the Ashfield district, a database of Nottinghamshire parish churches, transcriptions of MAnsfield gravestones etc. |
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"An online collection of old UK photographs, postcards and images" |
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“Use the Picture the Past website to view thousands of historic images from public libraries and museums in Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Order top-quality copies of your favourite images online.” |
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List of Nottinghamshire parish registers and the years covered. |
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The project aims to build a database of historical knowledge on all of the churches of Southwell Diocese. |
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The website has been created by the Great British Historical Geographical Information System Project (based at Portsmouth University) and brings together the Census and other information sources to form a clear picture of the changing face of Britain over the last 200 years. |
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Bassetlaw Museum was awarded £78,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to digitise 20,000 photographs taken by the Welchman family from Retford. Photographs taken between 1900 and 1960 are now available to browse online on the Bassetlaw Museum website. |
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© A P NICHOLSON | CREATED: 11 March 2005 | UPDATED: 6 April 2005