Digital Library of Historical Directories, 1750-1919: Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire, 1841-1914

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><p>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.<br>
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.<br>
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.</p><p><br></p><p>An <a href="http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4" target="_blank">online version</a> of this resource can be found on the Website of the University of Leicester.<br>
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</p><br>This data collection includes the following directories:<br><br>- Pigot's Directory of Northamptonshire (1841)<br><br>- Directory of the Town of Northampton: with a complete list of the clergy, gentry, merchants, manufacturers, professions, trades, &amp;c., &amp;c., &amp;c.: also a detailed account of the Northampton charities, religious &amp; other local institutions (1853)<br><br>- History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Huntingdon; comprising a general survey of the county, and embracing separate historical descriptions of the united boroughs of Huntingdon and Godmanchester, and all the market towns, together with notices of every parish (1854)<br><br>- History, Topography, &amp; Directory of Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire, to which is prefixed an abridgment of the early history of England (1862)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Northamptonshire (1890)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire (1890)<br><br>- Northampton Directory. Containing: directory of private residents, trades, professions, &amp; streets; county, municipal, topographical, and general information. (1893/94)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Hunts and Northamptonshire (1898)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Hunts and Northamptonshire (1903)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Northamptonshire (1906)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire (1910) [Bedfordshire only]<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Huntingdonshire (1910)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Northamptonshire (1910)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire (1914) [Northamptonshire only]<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire (1914) [Huntingdonshire only]<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire (1914) [Bedfordshire only] <br><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR>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.<br>
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