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:- Directory for the year 1801, of the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, and places adjacent, containing an alphabetical list of merchants, bankers, brokers, wharfingers, and coal fitters; likewise of the manufacturers, traders ... To which is prefixed, an account of Newcastle, its commerce, curiosities, and public buildings (1801)- History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the Counties of Durham and Northumberland, and the towns and counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed (1827)- Ward's Northumberland and Durham Directory; containing Alnwick, Bambrough, Belford, Berwick, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Shields, South Shields, Sunderland, and their localities (1850)- Hagar and Co.'s Directory of the County of Durham. Containing an alphabetical list of the gentry, merchants, manufacturers, professions, trades, &c., and separate historical, statistical, and topographical descriptions of the towns, parishes (1851)- The Durham Directory and Almanack (1854)- History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland, comprising a general survey of the county, and a history of ... Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with separate historical, statistical, and descriptive sketches of the boroughs of Gateshead and Berwick-upon-Tweed (1855)- The Durham Directory and Almanack (1857)- Post Office Directory of Northumberland and Durham (1858)- Kelly's Directory of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Suburbs (1886)- Kelly's Directory of Durham (1890)- Ward's Directory of Newcastle-on-Tyne and the adjacent villages; together with an almanac, a town and county guide, and a commercial advertiser (1890)- Kelly's Directory of Northumberland (1894)- Ward's Directory of Newcastle-on-Tyne and the adjacent villages; together with an almanac, a town and county guide, and a commercial advertiser (1898)- Ward's Directory of Newcastle-on-Tyne with its extended boundary, which now includes: Benwell Village, South, West and New Benwell, Fenham, Scotswood, Walker and Walker Gate, Wallsend, and the adjacent villages (1910)- Kelly's Directory of Durham and Northumberland, 1914. [Durham only] (1914)- Kelly's Directory of Northumberland (1914)- Ward's Directory of Newcastle-on-Tyne with its extended boundary, which now includes Benwell Village, South, West and New Benwell, Fenham, Scotswood, Walker and Walker Gate. Wallsend and the adjacent villages (1916)
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
