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:- History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Lincolnshire, and the city and diocese of Lincoln (1856)- The City of Lincoln Directory, 1857. Containing an alphabetical list of the principal householders, a classified trade and professional list, a complete street directory, and a list of carriers, etc. (1857)- Post Office Directory of Lincolnshire (1861)- The Post Office Directory of Lincolnshire (1868)- White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire (1872)- Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire (1885)- Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire (1889)- Directory of the City of Lincoln, with the surrounding district, containing street, and alphabetical and classified trades lists (1894)- Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire (1896)- Directory of the City of Lincoln, with the surrounding district, containing street and alphabetical and classified trades lists (1897)- Directory of the City of Lincoln, with the villages within a radius of ten miles, containing street and alphabetical and classified trades' lists (1901)- Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire (1905)- Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire (1909)- Directory of the City of Lincoln (1913)- Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire (1913)- Directory of the City of Lincoln containing street and alphabetical and classified trades lists and ... the villages within a radius of ten miles (1919)- Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire (1919)
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
