Digital Library of Historical Directories, 1750-1919: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, 1830-1915
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)
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Geographic Coverage:
GB
Resource Type:
dataset
Study Design:
historical
Available in Data Catalogs:
UK Data Service