Digital Library of Historical Directories, 1750-1919: Cornwall and Devon, 1783-1902
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:- Bailey's Western and Midland Directory; or Merchant's and Tradesman's Useful Companion, for the year, 1783. Containing an alphabetical list of the names and places of abode, of the bankers, merchants, manufacturers, gentlemen of the law and physic, and other eminent traders ... [Cornwall section only] (1783)- Pigot's Directory of Cornwall (1830)- The Exeter Journal and Almanack for 1850 ... containing all the most useful county and local information necessary for the private gentleman, clergy and professional man, the merchant, tradesman, farmer, seaman, &c. with complete memorandum and account book (1850)- History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire, and the city and county of the city of Exeter (1850)- The Exeter Journal and Almanack for 1851 ... containing all the most useful county and local information necessary for the private gentleman, clergy and professional man, the merchant, tradesman, farmer, seaman, &c. with complete memorandum and account book (1851)- A Directory of Plymouth, Stonehouse, Devonport, Stoke, and Moricetown, compiled from actual survey (1852)- The Exeter Journal and Almanack for 1852 ... containing all the most useful county & local information, necessary for the private gentleman, clergy and professional man, the merchant, tradesman, farmer, seaman, &c. with complete memorandum and account book (1852)- The Exeter Journal and Almanack for 1853 ... containing all the most useful county & local information, necessary for the private gentleman, clergy and professional man, the merchant, tradesman, farmer, seaman, &c. with complete memorandum and account book (1853)- West of England Pocket Book, or gentleman's diary, with an almanack (1853)- The Exeter Journal and Almanack for 1854 ... containing all the most useful county & local information, necessary for the private gentleman, clergy and professional man, the merchant, tradesman, farmer, seaman, &c. with complete memorandum and account book (1854)- The Exeter Journal and Almanack for 1855 ... containing all the most useful county & local information, necessary for the private gentleman, clergy and professional man, the merchant, tradesman, farmer, seaman, &c. with complete memorandum and account book (1855)- The Exeter Pocket Journal and Almanac, with a memorandum and account book (1856)- Post Office Directory of Cornwall (1856)- The Exeter Pocket Journal and Almanack, with a memorandum and account book (1857)- West of England and Trewman's Exeter Pocket Journal, or Gentleman's Diary, with an almanac (1858)- West of England and Trewman's Exeter Pocket Journal, or Gentleman's Diary, with an Almanack (1859)- A Directory of Redruth and its Neighbourhood; being an alphabetical list of the residences, names, & trades of persons residing in the four parishes of Redruth, Illogan, Gwennap, and Stithians, with a brief history of Redruth, Carnbrea, & Gwennap Pit, and a list of the mines and their managers (1866)- Post Office Cornwall Directory (1873)- History, Gazetteer and Directory of the county of Devon including the city of Exeter, and comprising a general survey of the county and separate historical, statistical, and topographical descriptions of all the hundreds, unions, parishes, townships, chapelries, towns, ports, villages & hamlets (1878-79)- Kelly's Directory of Cornwall (1883)- A Trade and General Directory of the City of Truro, with ... notice of its institutions, list of clergy in diocese, &c.
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Geographic Coverage:
GB
Resource Type:
dataset
Study Design:
historical
Available in Data Catalogs:
UK Data Service