Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of the project was to improve access to local and trade directories for the period 1750-1919 by making a substantial collection of English and Welsh directories available online as a Digital Library of Historical Directories. This digital resource comprises in total some 600 directories, covering every English county together with Wales, and ranging widely over the period 1750-1919 (the latter cut-off point chosen for copyright reasons). There is a particular focus on the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s, with at least one directory provided for each county in each of these decades. The digitisation of the volumes involved a two-stage process, in which (1) the hard-copy source was scanned to produce a graphic image of each page, and then (2) those images were processed using OCR software to generate a machine-readable text file.An online version of this resource can be found on the Website of the University of Leicester.
This data collection includes the following directories:- Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey and Sussex, 1891. Part 1. Kent: County & Localities (1891)- Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey and Sussex, 1891. Part 2. Kent: Court & Trade Directories (1891)- Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey and Sussex, 1891. Part 3: Surrey (1891)- Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey and Sussex, 1891. Part 4: Sussex & Advertisements (1891)- The Bexhill Chronicle Guide, Almanac and Directory to Bexhill-on-Sea and environs. Local illustrations and information (1892)- Long's Worthing Directory. 1892. Also directories of the whole of the villages in Worthing postal district (1892)- Kelly's Ealing, Acton, Hanwell, Gunnersbury & Chiswick Directory ("Buff Book") for 1893-4 (1893)- Kelly's Directory of Essex, Hertfordshire and Middlesex. [1894. Essex only] (1894)- Kelly's Directory of Essex, Hertfordshire and Middlesex. [1894. Hertfordshire & Middlesex only] (1894)- Kelly's Directory of Hertfordshire (1895)- Kelly's Directory of Hertfordshire (1899)- Kelly's Directory of Middlesex (1899)- Kelly's Directory of Sussex (1899)- Kelly's Directory of Essex (1902)- Kelly's Directory of Hertfordshire (1902)- Parsons' Isle of Sheppey Local Directory and Guide, containing general information, streets and alphabetical directory (1902)- Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 1: County & Localities] (1903)- Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories] (1903)- The "Kent Messenger" Directory of Maidstone and surrounding villages (1904)
Main Topics:The directories included are of many different kinds, commonly embracing trade, commercial, and private resident directories, together with gazetteers, almanacs, official information, etc. For the purposes of deposit in the UK Data Archive, the collection has been divided into 35 studies on a regional and temporal basis.
No sampling (total universe)
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
