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:- Pigot's Directory of Buckinghamshire (1830-31)- Berkshire Commercial Directory (1833)- Kelly's Berkshire Directory (1848)- History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Oxford; comprising a general survey of the County ... to which is subjoined a list of the seats of the nobility and gentry (1852)- Slater's Directory of Berkshire (1852)- Musson and Craven's Commercial Directory of the County of Buckingham and the Town of Windsor; containing an alphabetical list of the nobility, gentry, merchants, professions, trades, etc., and separate historical and topographical descriptions of all the towns, parishes (1853)- The Post Office Directory of Buckinghamshire / ed. By E. R. Kelly (1864)- Webster's Reading Directory; including Henley, Pangbourne and Goring: also 73 villages contained in a radius of ten miles (1874)- Rusher's Banbury List and Directory, 1882 to 1896. Part 1 (1882-89)- Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire (1883)- Kelly's Directory of Berkshire (1887)- Rusher's Banbury List and Directory, 1882 to 1896. Part 2 (1890-96)- Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire (1895)- Kelly's Directory of Berkshire (1899)- Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire (1899)- Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire (1903)- Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire (1907)- Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire (1907)- Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire (1911)- Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire (1911)- Kelly's Directory of Reading, Caversham & Neighbourhood (1914)- Kelly's Directory of Berkshire (1915)- Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire (1915)
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
