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:- White's General and Commercial Directory of Bradford, Halifax, Wakefield, Keighley, Bingley, Shipley, Brighouse, Normanton, and other towns and villages in the West Riding engaged in the worsted manufacture, followed by a general trades directory of the district (1887)- Kelly's Directory of Leeds and its neighbourhood, 1888 (with which is amalgamated the Post Office Directory published by McCorquodale & Co.) (1888)- The Post-Office Bradford Directory 1891 ... comprising the area of the Bradford postal district and the Shipley postal district (1891)- History, Topography, and Directory of East Yorkshire (with Hull) (1892)- Kelly's Directory of the North and East Ridings Yorkshire, with the city of York. [Part 1: Places] (1893)- Kelly's Directory of the North and East Ridings Yorkshire, with the city of York. [Part 2: Court & Trade Directories and Hull] (1893)- White's Directory of the city of Leeds (forming part of the clothing district directory), followed by a trades directory of the whole of the clothing district (1894)- White's Directory of York and Neighbourhood (1895)- The Post-Office Bradford Directory, 1898 ... comprising the City of Bradford and the surrounding district (1898)- Kelly's Directory of Hull and its neighbourhood (1899)- White's General and Commercial Directory of Sheffield, Rotherham, and the parishes, townships, villages, and hamlets within a radius of seven miles from Sheffield, for 1901 (1901)- White's Directory of Sheffield, Rotherham and the parishes, townships, villages and hamlets within a radius of seven miles from Sheffield (1905)- White's Directory of Sheffield and Rotherham, and the parishes, townships, villages and hamlets within a radius of seven miles from Sheffield (1911)- The Post Office Bradford Directory. The standard business reference guide to Bradford and district, comprising the City of Bradford and the townships of Shipley, Baildon, and Clayton (1912)- Kelly's Directory of the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire (with the cities of York and Hull) ... 1913. [Part 1: Localities, Court & Trade Directories] (1913)- Kelly's Directory of the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire (with the cities of York and Hull) ... 1913. [Part 2: York & Hull] (1913)
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
