History

General resources

• [277] BBC History: British History
• [277] BBC History: Historic Figures
• [277] British History Online
• [277] Connected Histories

Local history

• [278] BBC History: Local History
• [279] National Archives: Looking for a place
• [279] National Archives: Local History
• [279] Local History Magazine: Getting Started
• [279] British History Online
• [279] Internet Archive
• [279] Victoria County History
• [279] Victoria County History: Counties
• [279] Victoria County History: Parish Index
• [279] Medieval English Genealogy: Victoria County History
• [279] Edina: Statistical Accounts of Scotland
• [280] PortCities
• [280] Tomorrow's History
• [280] Wiltshire Community History
• [280] Gathering the Jewels
• [280] Powys Heritage Online
• [280] The Gaelic Village
• [280] Digital Handsworth
• [280] Dursley Glos Web
• [280] TheGlasgowStory
• [280] Kingston Local History project
• [280] Knowsley (Lancs) Local History
• [280] SilverCityVault
• [280] Soham On-Line: History
• [280] Recording Uttlesford History
• [281] Local Heritage Initiative
• [281] Genuki: Online Parish Clerks
• [281] One Place Studies
• [281] Climate History in the British Isles

Societies

• [281] Local History Magazine
• [281] British Association for Local History: Societies

Discussion forums

• [282] Local-history mailing list
• [282] RootsWeb: ONE-PLACE-STUDY mailing list
• [282] British-Genealogy: One Place Studies
• [282] Curious Fox
• [282] Yahoo Groups: sussexpast
• [282] RootsWeb: Mailing lists

Social history

• [283] National Archives: Research Guides
• [283] Victorian Web: Victorian Social History
• [283] Workhouses
• [283] Rossbret Institutions Archived
• [283] County Asylums
• [283] GenDocs: Workhouses, Hospitals, Lunatic Asylums, Prisons, Barracks, Orphan Asylums, Convents, and other Principal Charitable Institutions
• [284] Hidden Lives
• [284] Historic Hospital Admissions Records
• [284] Origins: Family History Articles: Scotland
• [284] Electric Scotland: Social History of the Highlands
• [284] Radical Glasgow
• [284] Powys Heritage Online
• [284] Spartacus Educational
• [284] Spartacus Educational: The Textile System

Names

Origins

• [285] Cyndi's List: General Surname Sites
• [243] Wikipedia: Family name
• [285] Behind The Name
• [285] About.com: Glossary of Last Name Meanings and Origins
• [286] William Arthur: Essay On The Origin And Import Of Family Names
• [286] SURNAME-ORIGINS-L
• [286] Family Names of the United Kingdom
• [286] FaNUK: Interview with Professor Richard Coates

Distribution and frequency

• [286] FamilySearch
• [286] Great Britain Family Names
• [286] GRO(S): Popular Names
• [243] Wikipedia: List of most common surnames
• [287] British Surnames and Surname Profiles
• [287] Sofeminine: All about surnames
• [287] Surname Studies
• [288] Gloucestershire Names and their Occurrence

Forenames

• [288] Oxford Reference
• [288] Behind The Name
• [288] What's In a Name
• [288] About.com: Naming Patterns for Countries & Cultures
• [288] Diminutives and Alternative Names for the Most Common English Christian Names
• [288] OLD-ENGLISH: Latinized Given Names
• [288] National Statistics
• [288] GRO(S): Popular Forenames in Scotland, 1900-2000
• [288] Image Partners: Forename Thesaurus
• [288] A Brief Discussion of Nicknames and Diminutives

Understanding old documents

Handwriting

• [289] Cambridge University: English Handwriting 1500-1700
• [289] National Archives: Palaeography
• [289] Scottish Handwriting
• [289] University of Leicester: MA in Palaeography
• [289] Medieval Writing
• [289] Medieval Writing: Abbreviations
• [290] OLD-ENGLISH
• [290] OLD-ENGLISH: Contents
• [290] FreeBMD: Reading the Writing
• [290] Brigham Young University: Script Tutorials

Dates and calendars

• [291] Regnal Year Calculator
• [291] Table of dates given in the old terms of year of monarch's reign
• [291] Wikipedia: Calendar of Saints (Church of England)
• [291] On-line Calendar of Saints' Days
• [291] Wikipedia: Gregorian calendar
• [291] Mike Spathaky: Old Style And New Style Dates And The Change To The Gregorian Calendar
• [291] Calendar Act of 1751
• [291] Calendar conversion
• [291] Calendopaedia
• [291] Calendopaedia: The Gregorian Calendar
• [291] Genuki: Perpetual Calendar
• [291] Medieval English Genealogy: Chronology and dating

Translation

Latin

• [292] National Archives: Beginner's Latin
• [292] FamilySearch Wiki: Latin Genealogical Word List
• [292] Simple Latin terms, words and phrases for genealogists reading old documents, wills, contracts, deeds, church and parish records
• [292] Dictionary of Latin Words and Phrases
• [292] Hard Little Words: Prepositions, Adverbs, Conjunctions (With Some Definitions of Medieval Usage)
• [292] C Russell Jensen: Parish Register Latin
• [292] soc.genealogy.medieval: FAQ
• [292] Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
• [292] Perseus Digital Library: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
• [293] RootsWeb: LATIN-WORDS
• [293] RootsWeb: LATIN-WORDS archive

Other languages

• [293] Dictionary of the Scots Language
• [293] SCOTLAND - a glossary of archaic terms
• [293] Welsh-English/English­Welsh On-line Dictionary
• [293] Collabrative (sic!) Irish dictionary
• [293] Irish Gaelic Translator: Relationships, Family
• [293] Histpop: General report, Ireland, 1911
• [293] Welsh Language Board: Language Spoken in Wales and Monmouthshire
• [293] FamilySearch Wiki: Ireland Language and Languages
• [294] FamilySearch Wiki: Wales Language and Languages

Technical terms

• [294] Wikipedia
• [294] OLD-ENGLISH web site
• [294] RootsWeb: OLD-WORDS
• [294] RootsWeb: OLD-ENGLISH archive
• [294] RootsWeb: OLD-WORDS archive
• [294] Leicestershire Agricultural Terms

Legal

• [294] Legal Terms in Land Records
• [295] HMRC: Scottish land law terms
• [295] Scottish Archive Network: Glossary
• [295] Manorial Society of Great Britain: Glossary
• [294] Wikipedia: Legal English
• [295] Free Dictionary: Legal Dictionary

Medical

• [295] MedTerms
• [295] Medical Dictionary Online
• [295] Antiquus Morbus
• [295] Cyndi's List: Diseases and Medical Terms
• [295] History of diseases and illnesses in the UK

Measurements

• [296] the Medieval palaeography
• [296] Roman numeral conversion
• [296] Old English Units
• [296] Old Imperial Lengths & Areas, etc
• [296] Dictionary of Measures
• [296] Dictionary of Measures: English Customary Weights and Measures
• [296] Cyndi's List: Weights and Measures
• [296] Wikipedia

Medieval

• [296] Hypertext Medieval Glossary
• [296] Glossary Of Medieval Terms

Value of Money

• [296] Inflation: the Value of the Pound 1750–1998
• [296] Historical value of money in UK
• [296] Measuring Worth: Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1264 to 2007
• [297] Measuring Worth: Five Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a UK Pound Amount, 1830 to Present
• [297] Relative Value of Sums of Money
• [297] National Statistics: Consumer Price Inflation Since 1750
• [297] Historical UK Inflation And Price Conversion
• [297] National Archives: Currency converter
• [298] Old Money app
• [298] Scottish Archive Network: Scots Currency Converter
• [298] Current value of Old Money
• [298] Wages and the cost of living in Southern England 1450-1700
• [298] What's A Guinea?

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