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IMPORTANT NOTE: This country resources page should only list those links and bibliography that cover the entirety of The United Kingdom. For resources dealing specifically with England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the dependencies, please use their specific resource pages. Thanks and have fun !
Post-Roman Britain and the Anglo-Saxon Conquest in Maps
UK Treaties Online - From the archives of The Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
UK Treaty Maps Database - From the archives of The Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Norfolk County Council - E-Map Explorer ~ England - Online interactive maps of Norfolk both current and historical.
Old-Maps.co.uk - Works more or less like Google Maps - only old maps of the regions in question (1870 to 1930 mostly) are used.
Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Scans of a selection of the Popular Edition (1920s and 30s), 1 inch to the mile, England and Wales, Ordnance Survey maps displayed using the Google Maps interface.
Old Maps - Maps of towns in England, Scotland and Wales as they were in the 1950s.
A Vision of Britain Through Time - Interactive historical geographic survey of the British Isles from 1801 through 2001. Compiled from maps, statistics & historical descriptions. Place name searchable. Excellent source of information for placing ancestors in historical context of their locality.
Gazetteer of British Place Names - Contains the ancient or geographical County of over 50,000 place names in Britain along with modern administrative areas information.
The villages of the UK where everyone came home from the World Wars
Kingdoms and polities of Britain in the early Middle Ages
The Official Website of the British Monarchy
Collection of UK political treaties online - 14,000 archived treaties from the history of the UK, courtesy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The collection comes with a map database.
The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714–1837
Most likely names to be given to children in the House of Windsor - A spreadsheet made by doing a bit of statistical analysis, courtesy of Alex Richards.
Silverwood Mine - The history of a coal mine in South Yorkshire England 1900 to 1996, with listing of 3,000 miners on a linked searchable database for genealogist. This site links families worldwide.
British & Irish Clock and Watch Makers (c1600-c1940) - Online Archive Library, Trade Directory Lists.
National Archives of the United Kingdom
National Library of the United Kingdom
Staffordshire Name Indexes - Brought to you by Staffordshire & Stoke On Trent Archive Service. Free access to the following indexes: Calendars of Prisoners at Staffordshire Quarter Sessions, 1779-1880; Staffordshire Police Force Registers Index, 1842-1920; Diocese of Lichfield Wills, 1650-1730; Staffordshire Apprentices, 1600-1900; Workhouse Admissions and Discharges, 1836-1900; Tenants of the Manor of Newcastle under Lyme, 1700-1832.
The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (CCEd) - Makes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century. The Database fills major gaps in our knowledge of one of the most important professions in early modern England and Wales. It provides an invaluable research tool for both national and local, academic and amateur historians, and genealogists who often need to discover biographical information about individual clergymen or more about the succession of clergy in a particular place. CCEd is a collaboration between historians at King’s College London, the University of Kent and the University of Reading, and it is supported by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London.
Old UK Photos - Free high resolution old photos and pictures of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and British Isles. Old photographs of Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland. Of interest to all family historians.
Victorian Illustrated Newspapers and Journals: Select list.
Scottish Newspapers on the Internet - List of links from the British Library Newspaper Library.
London National Newspapers on the Internet - List of links from the British Library Newspaper Library.
Castlexplorer.co.uk - A comprehensive guide to the castles of Britain.
Useful Resources about England
Useful Resources about Scotland
Useful Resources about Northern Ireland
List of Resources by Country and Region