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:- The Post Office London Directory for 1906. County Suburbs. [Part 1: Street & Commercial Directories] (1905)- The Post Office London Directory for 1906. County Suburbs. [Part 2: Trades & Court Directories, etc.] (1905)- The Post Office London Directory for 1907. County Suburbs. [Part 1: Street & Commercial Directories] (1907)- The Post Office London Directory for 1907. County Suburbs. [Part 2: Trades & Court Directories, etc.] (1907)- The Post Office London Directory for 1908. County Suburbs. [Part 1: Street, Commercial, & Trades Directories] (1908)- The Post Office London Directory for 1908. County Suburbs. [Part 2: Court Directory, etc.] (1908)- The Post Office London Directory for 1910. Comprising, amongst other information, official, streets, commercial, trades, law, court, parliamentary, postal, city, municipal and clerical, conveyance and banking directories. [Vol. I. Part 1: Official Directory] (1910)- The Post Office London Directory for 1910. Comprising, amongst other information, official, streets, commercial, trades, law, court, parliamentary, postal, city, municipal and clerical, conveyance and banking directories. [Vol. I. Part 2: Street Directory] (1910)- The Post Office London Directory for 1910. Comprising, amongst other information, official, streets, commercial, trades, law, court, parliamentary, postal, city, municipal and clerical, conveyance and banking directories. [Vol. I. Part 3: Commercial & Professional Directory] (1910)- The Post Office London Directory for 1910. Comprising, amongst other information, official, streets, commercial, trades, law, court, parliamentary, postal, city, municipal and clerical, conveyance and banking directories. [Vol. II. Part 1: Trades & Professional Directory] (1910)- The Post Office London Directory for 1910. Comprising, amongst other information, official, streets, commercial, trades, law, court, parliamentary, postal, city, municipal and clerical, conveyance and banking directories. [Vol. II. Part 2: Law, Court, & Parliamentary Directories] (1910)- The Post Office London Directory for 1910. Comprising, amongst other information, official, streets, commercial, trades, law, court, parliamentary, postal, city, municipal and clerical, conveyance and banking directories. [Vol. II. Part 3: Postal, Public Officials, etc.] (1910)- The Post Office London Directory for 1911. County Suburbs. [Part 1: Street & Commercial Directories] (1911)- The Post Office London Directory for 1911. County Suburbs. [Part 2: Trades & Court Directories, etc.] (1911)