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Research guides beginning with: 1
- 1939 Register
Keywords: 1939 registercensusdatasetsdigitised recordsonline collectionspopulationstatisticssurveys All records viewable online
Research guides beginning with: A
- Abbreviations in Merchant Navy records
Keywords: merchant navynavy - Adoptions
Keywords: adoptionsbirths - African ancestors – an overview
Keywords: africaafricanemigrationimmigration - Agricultural statistics of England and Wales
Keywords: agriculturedatasetsfarms and farmingstatistics - Alien arrivals
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Alien entry books
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Aliens’ registration cards 1918-1957
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - America and the West Indies in the Calendar of State Papers Colonial 1573-1739
Keywords: americacaribbeancoloniesearly modern periodstate papers - American and West Indian colonies before 1782
Keywords: americacaribbeancoloniesstate papers - American Revolution
Keywords: americaamerican revolutioncolonies - Apprentices and masters
Keywords: apprenticeshiplabour historymaster craftsmen and tradesmentradesmen - Architectural drawings
Keywords: architecturebuildingsplans - Architectural history records held by other archives
Keywords: architecturebuildingsplans - Armed forces records held by other archives
Keywords: armybritish armyrafroyal air forceroyal navysoldierwars - Army regiments
Keywords: armybritish armyregiments and corps - Art and artists
Keywords: art and artists - Asylums, psychiatric hospitals and mental health
Keywords: asylums (hospitals)healthhealth policyhospitalslunatic asylumsmental health - Australian and New Zealand ancestors – an overview
Keywords: australiaemigrationimmigrationnew zealand
Research guides beginning with: B
- Bankrupts and insolvent debtors
Keywords: bankruptsdebtorsinsolvencyprisonersprisons - Births, marriages and deaths at sea or abroad
Keywords: birthscoloniesdeathsmarriagesmerchant navyshipping - Births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales
Keywords: baptismsbirthsdeathsmarriages - Births, marriages and deaths in Scotland and Ireland
Keywords: birthsdeathsirelandmarriagesscotland - Births, marriages and deaths in the armed forces
Keywords: armybirthsbritish armydeathsmarriagesnavyrafroyal air forceroyal marinesroyal navy - Births, marriages and deaths in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man
Keywords: birthsdeathsmarriages - Black British social and political history in the 20th century
Keywords: africaafricanblackblack britishcaribbeancivil rightsrace relationswest indian - Board of Ordnance
Keywords: armybritish armyordnance (military supplies) - Bomb Census survey 1940-1945
Keywords: air raidsbomb censuscasualties of wardatasetssecond world warstatisticssurveysworld war two - British and Commonwealth prisoners of the First World War and previous wars
Keywords: first world warpowsprisoners of warworld war one - British and Commonwealth prisoners of the Second World War and the Korean War
Keywords: korean warpowsprisoners of warsecond world warsecond world war personnelworld war two - British Army and militia 1760-1915
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - British Army casualty lists 1939-1945
Keywords: armybritish armydeathsdigitised recordsonline collectionssecond world warsoldierworld war two All records viewable online - British Army medal index cards 1914-1920
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - British Army muster rolls and pay lists c.1730-1898
Keywords: armybritish armymuster rollsregiments and corpssoldier - British Army nurses
Keywords: armybritish armynurseswomen's military service - British Army nurses’ service records 1914-1918
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - British Army officers in service after 1918
Keywords: armybritish armysecond world warsecond world war personnelsoldierworld war two - British Army officers of the First World War
Keywords: armybritish armyfirst world warmedalsofficers (army)soldierworld war one - British Army officers up to 1913
Keywords: armyawardsbritish armymedalsofficers (army)soldier - British Army operations after 1945
Keywords: armybritish armykorean warregiments and corpswar diaries - British Army operations in the First World War
Keywords: armybritish armyfirst world warregiments and corpswar diariesworld war one - British Army operations in the Second World War
Keywords: armybritish armyregiments and corpssecond world warwar diariesworld war two - British Army operations up to 1913
Keywords: armyboer warbritish armycrimean warnapoleonic warsregiments and corps - British Army soldiers in service after 1945
Keywords: armybritish armysoldier - British Army soldiers of the First World War
Keywords: armybritish armyfirst world warnon-commissioned officersoldierworld war one - British Army soldiers of the Second World War
Keywords: armybritish armysecond world warsecond world war personnelsoldierworld war two - British Army soldiers up to 1913
Keywords: armybritish armypensionssoldier - British Army war diaries 1914-1922
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections - British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force disability and dependents’ pensions from the First World War
Keywords: armybritish armydisability pensionsfirst world warpensionsrafroyal air forceroyal navyworld war one - British military campaign and service medals
Keywords: armyawardsbritish armycampaign medalsmedalsofficers (army) - British military gallantry medals
Keywords: armyawardsbritish armygallantry medalshonoursmedals
Research guides beginning with: C
- Cabinet and its committees
Keywords: cabinet officefirst world warinternational relationssecond world warworld war oneworld war two - Caribbean ancestors – an overview
Keywords: caribbeanimmigration - Catholics
Keywords: burialscatholicsrecusants catholicreligious history - Census records
Keywords: censusdatasetsdigitised recordsonline collectionspopulationstatisticssurveys All records viewable online - Certificates of British citizenship 1949-1986
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)british citizenshipcertificate of naturalisationimmigrationmigrationnaturalisation - Chancel repair liabilities in England and Wales
Keywords: chancel repairstithes - Changes of name
Keywords: changes of namedeeds poll - Children’s homes
Keywords: borstalschildren's homes - Civil court cases: an overview
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawlaw and ordertrials - Civil court cases: assize courts 1656-1971
Keywords: assize courtscivil litigationcourts of lawearly modern periodlaw and ordertrials - Civil court cases: Chancery Division since 1875
Keywords: chancery (court of)civil litigationcourts of lawlaw and ordertrials - Civil court cases: Chancery equity suits 1558-1875
Keywords: chancery (court of)civil litigationcourts of lawearly modern periodequity courtslaw and ordertrials - Civil court cases: Chancery equity suits before 1558
Keywords: chancery (court of)civil litigationcourts of lawearly modern periodequity courtslaw and ordertrials - Civil court cases: Court of Common Pleas
Keywords: civil litigationcommon pleas (court)courts of lawearly modern periodlaw and order - Civil court cases: disputed wills
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawdeathsearly modern periodlaw and orderprerogative court of canterburyprobatetrialswills - Civil court cases: King’s/Queen’s Bench 1702-1998
Keywords: courts of lawkings bench (court of)law and orderqueen's bench (court of)trials - Civil courts: appeal cases after 1875
Keywords: chancery (court of)civil litigationcourts of lawlaw and ordertrials - Civil or crown servants
Keywords: civil servantscrown servantsgovernment employeesroyal household - Civilian gallantry medals, honours and other awards
Keywords: awardscivilian gallantry awardsgallantry medalshonoursmedals - Coastguard officers
Keywords: coastguard - Coastguard stations and administration
Keywords: coastguardcustoms (tax)shipping - Colonies and dependencies 1815-1870: using Colonial Office indexes to locate correspondence
Keywords: british empirecolonies - Colonies and dependencies 1820-1850: using Colonial Office registers to locate correspondence
Keywords: british empirecolonies - Colonies and dependencies 1850-1926: using Colonial Office registers to locate correspondence
Keywords: british empirecoloniescommonwealth of nationsdominions (british) - Colonies and dependencies from 1782
Keywords: british empirecoloniescommonwealth of nationsdominions (british) - Companies and businesses
Keywords: business historycompanies and businessesindustrylabour history - Company and business history records held by other archives
Keywords: business historycompanies and businessesindustrylabour historytrade and industry - Conscientious objectors
Keywords: conscientious objectorsfirst world warsecond world warworld war oneworld war two - Coroners’ inquests
Keywords: coronersdeathsinquests - Country court death duty registers 1796-1811
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Court of Exchequer
Keywords: courts of lawearly modern periodequity courtsexchequerlaw and order - Court of King’s Bench records 1200-1702
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawkings bench (court of)law and ordertrials - Court of Requests records 1485-1642
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawearly modern periodequity courtslaw and orderrequests (court of)trials - Court of Star Chamber records 1485-1642
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawearly modern periodequity courtslaw and orderstar chamber (court of)trials - Court of Wards and Liveries 1540-1645: land inheritance and disputes
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawdeeds (property ownership)early modern periodlandland ownershipwards and liveries (court of) - Courts martial and desertion in the British Army 17th-20th centuries
Keywords: armybritish armycourts martialdeserters (armed forces)first world warsecond world warsoldierworld war oneworld war two - Courts of law records from the medieval period: general eyres 1194-1348
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtseyres (general)general eyreslaw and ordermedieval periodtrials - Courts of law records held in other archives
Keywords: civil litigationconvictscourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtslaw and ordertrials - Crime, prisons and punishment 1770-1935
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Crimean War – an overview
Keywords: crimean warwars - Criminal court cases: an overview
Keywords: courts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtslaw and ordertrials - Criminal court cases: assize courts 1559-1971
Keywords: assize courtscourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtsearly modern periodlaw and ordertrials - Criminal court cases: Crown courts since 1972
Keywords: central criminal courtcourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtscrown courtslaw and ordermagistrates' courtsold baileytrials - Criminal court cases: King’s/Queen’s Bench 1675-1988
Keywords: courts of lawcriminal courtskings bench (court of)law and ordertrials - Criminal court cases: Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court)
Keywords: central criminal courtcourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtslaw and orderold baileytrials - Criminal courts: appeal cases
Keywords: courts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtslaw and ordertrials - Criminal transportation
Keywords: australia (transportation to)convictscrime and criminalsprisonerstransportation (punishment) - Crown, church and royalist lands 1642-1660
Keywords: church landscivil war (english)early modern periodestates (landed gentry)landland ownership - Customs officers
Keywords: customs (tax)inland revenue
Research guides beginning with: D
- Death duties 1796-1903
Keywords: administrations of probatedeath duties (tax)deathsduties and taxeslegacies (probate)probatetaxes and dutieswills - Deaths in the First and Second World Wars
Keywords: casualties of wardeathsfirst world warsecond world warworld war oneworld war two - Disability history
Keywords: civil rightsdisability - Discovery help
Keywords: - Dissolution of the monasteries 1536-1540
Keywords: abbeyschurch landsdissolution of the monasteriesearly modern periodmonasteriesreligious history - Divorce
Keywords: annulment of marriagecourts of lawdivorce - Doctors and nurses
Keywords: doctorshospitalsmedical servicesnursespatients in hospital - Domesday Book
Keywords: datasetsdigitised recordsdomesday booklandland ownershipmedieval periodonline collectionsstatisticssurveys All records viewable online - Durham Home Guard 1939-1945
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online
Research guides beginning with: E
- Economic policy and government spending in the 20th century
Keywords: cabinet officeeconomic historyfinancial records of governmenttaxationtreasury - Education history records held by other archives
Keywords: collegeseducation historyschoolsuniversities - Electoral registration
Keywords: electoral registers - Emigration and emigrants
Keywords: america (emigration to)australia (emigration to)canada (emigration to)emigrationmigrationnew zealand (emigration to) - Empire and Commonwealth records held by other archives
Keywords: british empirecoloniescommonwealth of nationsdominions (british) - Enclosure awards and maps
Keywords: enclosure (land)landland ownershipmaps - Enslaved people and slave owners
Keywords: abolition of slaverybritish empirecaribbeancoloniesslavery - Environmental pollution and damage
Keywords: contaminated landenvironmental pollutionlandland ownershippollution - Evacuees
Keywords: evacuationhome frontsecond world warworld war two - Excise and Inland Revenue officers
Keywords: excise (tax)inland revenue
Research guides beginning with: F
- Famous wills 1552-1854
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Film, television and performing arts records held by other archives
Keywords: actorsfilmtelevisiontheatre - Find an archive
Keywords: - First World War – an overview
Keywords: first world warwarsworld war one - First World War soldiers’ service and pension records
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Fleet Air Arm personnel
Keywords: fleet air armnavyroyal navysecond world war personnel - Foreign affairs before 1509
Keywords: diplomacyforeign affairsinternational relationsmedieval period - Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office correspondence 1920 onwards
Keywords: diplomacyforeign affairsforeign officeinternational relations - Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office records from 1782
Keywords: commonwealth of nationscontrol commissiondiplomacyforeign affairsforeign officeinternational relationstreaties - Foreign Office correspondence 1782-1890
Keywords: diplomacyforeign affairsforeign officeinternational relations - Foreign Office correspondence 1891-1905
Keywords: diplomacyforeign affairsforeign officeinternational relations - Foreign Office correspondence 1906-1919
Keywords: diplomacyforeign affairsforeign officeinternational relations - Free online records: digital microfilm
Keywords: admiraltyconvictscrime and criminalsdigitised recordsforeign affairsfree online recordshome officenavyonline collections All records viewable online - French lands of the English kings
Keywords: early modern periodfrance (english lands in)landland ownership - French muster rolls from the Battle of Trafalgar 1805
Keywords: digitised recordshigh court of admiraltyonline collectionstrafalgar (battle of) All records viewable online - Funds in court
Keywords: courts of lawdormant fundsfunds in courtlegacies (probate)money in chanceryprobate
Research guides beginning with: G
- Garden history records held by other archives
Keywords: garden history - German Foreign Ministry and Italian documents 1867-1945 captured by the British
Keywords: german foreign ministrynazi germanysecond world warworld war two - Glossary for Discovery
Keywords: catalogue (discovery) helpdiscovery (catalogue) help - Government film-making and the film industry
Keywords: filmpropaganda - Government surveys, statistics and other datasets from the National Digital Archive of Datasets, 1963-2010
Keywords: datasetsdigital datasetsdigitised recordsnational digital archive of datasetsonline collectionsstatisticssurveys All records viewable online
Research guides beginning with: H
- High Court of Admiralty
Keywords: admiraltycoloniescourts of lawhigh court of admiraltyshippingtrials - Historical education policy and administration: childcare, schools for disabled children and other special services
Keywords: disabilityeducation historyschools - Historical education policy and administration: elementary and primary schools
Keywords: education historypoor lawsschools - Historical education policy and administration: inspection reports
Keywords: collegeseducation historyinspection of schoolspoor lawsschools - Historical education policy and administration: secondary schools
Keywords: education historyschools - Historical education policy and administration: teacher training
Keywords: education historyschoolsteachers - Historical education policy and administration: technical and vocational further education and schools of art
Keywords: collegeseducation history - Historical NHS patient records
Keywords: healthhospitalsmedical patientspatients in hospital - Home Guard personnel
Keywords: home fronthome guardsecond world warworld war two - Home Office correspondence from 1782
Keywords: crime and criminalshealthhome officepoverty - Hospitals
Keywords: healthhospitalsmedical patientsmedical servicespatients in hospital - Household Cavalry soldiers’ service records 1799-1920
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Houses
Keywords: architecturebuildingshousestitle deeds
Research guides beginning with: I
- Immigration and immigrants
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)british citizenshipimmigrationinterneesmigrationnaturalisationpassengers - Indian Army personnel
Keywords: armyfirst world warindian armysecond world warworld war oneworld war two - Indian indentured labourers
Keywords: indentured labourindian indentured labourlabour history - Inquisitions post mortem: land ownership and inheritance in the medieval and early modern periods
Keywords: early modern periodinquisitions post mortemlandland ownership - Intellectual property: patents of invention
Keywords: intellectual propertyinventionspatent officepatents of invention - Intellectual property: photographs, artwork, literature, music and advertising registered for copyright 1842-1924 (and 1887-1955)
Keywords: art and artistscopyright registrationintellectual propertyphotographsstationery office - Intellectual property: registered designs 1839-1991
Keywords: copyright registrationdesign manufacturingdiamond marksintellectual propertyregistered designs - Intellectual property: trade marks, 1876-1938
Keywords: intellectual propertypatent officeregistered designstrade marks - Intelligence and security services
Keywords: espionageintelligence and security servicesmi5 and mi6security servicesspecial operations executive - International boundaries
Keywords: borders (international)boundaries (international)coloniesdiplomacyforeign affairsinternational relationsmaps - Internees
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)first world warimmigrationinterneesmigrationpowsprisoners of warsecond world warworld war oneworld war two - Ireland’s Easter Rising 1916
Keywords: courts martialeaster rising (ireland)ireland - Irish ancestors – an overview
Keywords: emigrationimmigrationireland - Irish maps c.1558-c.1610
Keywords: digitised recordsearly modern periodirelandmapsonline collections All records viewable online
Research guides beginning with: J
- Jacobite Risings 1715 and 1745
Keywords: jacobitesscotland - Jewish people and communities in Britain and its former colonies
Keywords: anglo jewish historyemigrationimmigrationjewish historymigration
Research guides beginning with: L
- Labour history records held by other archives
Keywords: industrylabour historytrade unions - Land and property for charitable use: trust deeds, 1736-1963
Keywords: charitable trustsconveyance of landdeeds (property ownership)early modern periodlandland ownershiptrust deeds - Land and property ownership: conveyances by feet of fines 1182-1833
Keywords: conveyance of landdeeds (property ownership)early modern periodfines (land conveyances)landland ownership - Land and property ownership: enrolment and registration of title 1227-c1930
Keywords: conveyance of landdeeds (property ownership)early modern periodlandland ownershiptitle deeds - Land and property requisitioned for war in the 20th century
Keywords: first world warlandland ownershiprequisitioned landsecond world warworld war oneworld war two - Land ownership records and deeds: an overview
Keywords: landland ownership - Land ownership, use and rights: common lands
Keywords: common landlandland ownership - Land use, value and ownership: Valuation Office Survey 1910-1915
Keywords: datasetsfinance 1909-1910 actlandland ownershipmapsstatisticssurveystaxationvaluation office - Landed estates
Keywords: estates (landed gentry)landland ownership - Lawyers
Keywords: attorneysbarristerslawyerssolicitors - League of Nations
Keywords: first world warforeign affairsinternational relationsleague of nationsworld war one - Letters and papers of Henry VIII
Keywords: early modern periodhenry viiipolitical history (general)state papers - Living people
Keywords: electoral registersliving peoplemissing people - London Metropolitan Police
Keywords: metropolitan policepolice - Looted art 1939-1961
Keywords: art and artistsdigitised recordsforeign affairsinternational relationsonline collectionssecond world warworld war two All records viewable online
Research guides beginning with: M
- Manorial documents and lordships and how to use the Manorial Documents Register
Keywords: early modern periodlandland ownershipmanorial documents registermanors - Manors and manorial records
Keywords: early modern periodlandland ownershipmanorsmaps - Maps and plans
Keywords: early modern periodmapsplans - Maps and plans: an overview
Keywords: landmaps - Maritime births 1867-1960
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Maritime deaths 1781-1968
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Maritime history records held by other archives
Keywords: merchant navynavyroyal navyshipping - Maritime marriages 1854-1972
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Markets and fairs
Keywords: chartersfairsmarkets - Medieval and early modern family history
Keywords: early modern periodmedieval period - Medieval and early modern soldiers
Keywords: armybritish armyearly modern periodmedieval periodofficers (army)soldier - Medieval customs’ accounts
Keywords: customs (tax)excise (tax)inland revenuemedieval periodpipe rollstaxation - Medieval financial records: pipe rolls 1130-c.1300
Keywords: economic historyexchequerfinancial records of governmentpipe rolls - Medieval maritime personnel and ships
Keywords: medieval periodnavy - Merchant Navy campaign medal records 1914-1918
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Merchant Navy campaign medal records 1939-1945
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Merchant Navy medals and honours
Keywords: awardscampaign medalsgallantry medalshonoursmedalsmerchant navy - Merchant Navy officers
Keywords: crew listsmerchant navyofficers merchant navy - Merchant Navy seamen in service before 1914
Keywords: apprenticeshipcrew listsmerchant navy - Merchant Navy seamen in service since 1918
Keywords: crew listsmerchant navysecond world warsecond world war personnelworld war two - Merchant Navy seamen of the First World War
Keywords: apprenticeshipcrew listsfirst world warmerchant navyworld war one - Merchant Navy seamen registers 1835-1857
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Merchant Navy seamen registers 1918-1941
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Merchant Navy ships wrecked or sunk
Keywords: first world warmerchant navynavysecond world warshippingworld war oneworld war two - Merchant Navy ships’ records: movement cards 1939-1945
Keywords: digitised recordsmerchant navyonline collectionssecond world warshippingworld war two All records viewable online - Merchant Navy ships’ records: registration of merchant ships
Keywords: merchant navynavyshipping - Merchant Navy ships’ records: crew lists, musters and log books
Keywords: crew listslog books (ships)merchant navyshipping - Merchant trade records: port books 1565-1799
Keywords: customs (tax)merchant navyport bookstaxation - Middlesex military service appeal tribunal 1916-1918
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Military and maritime records: an overview
Keywords: merchant navymilitarywars - Military maps of the First World War
Keywords: first world warmapsworld war one - Military maps of the Second World War
Keywords: mapssecond world warworld war two - Military nursing
Keywords: armybritish armynavynursesrafroyal air forceroyal navywomen's military service - Militia
Keywords: armybritish armymedalsmilitiapensionssoldiervolunteer soldiers - Mines and mining
Keywords: business historycoal miningindustrylabour historymining
Research guides beginning with: N
- Napoleonic wars and the war of 1812 – an overview
Keywords: napoleonic warswars - National Farm Survey of England and Wales 1941-1943
Keywords: agriculturedatasetsfarms and farminglandland ownershipmapsnational farm surveystatisticssurveys - Naturalisation case papers 1801-1871
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Naturalisation, registration and British citizenship
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)british citizenshipcertificates of british citizenshipimmigrationmigrationnaturalisation - Nazi persecution and the Holocaust
Keywords: control commissionforeign officeholocaustjewish historynazi germanysecond world warwar crimesworld war two - Newspapers
Keywords: newspaperspress - Nonconformist and non-parish births, marriages and deaths 1567-1969
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Nonconformists
Keywords: baptismsbirthsdeathsearly modern periodmarriagesnonconformistsreligious history - North American ancestors – an overview
Keywords: americaamerica (emigration to)canada (emigration to)emigrationnorth america
Research guides beginning with: O
- Oaths of loyalty to the Crown and Church of England
Keywords: early modern periodlawyersnonconformistsoath rollsreligious historysacrament certificates - Olympic and Paralympic Games and sporting history
Keywords: olympicsparalympicssport - Ordnance Survey
Keywords: mapsordnance survey - Other countries and territories – an overview
Keywords: diplomacyforeign affairsforeign officeinternational relations - Outlaws and outlawry in medieval and early modern England
Keywords: crime and criminalsearly modern periodlaw and ordermedieval periodoutlaws - Overseas maps and plans
Keywords: borders (international)boundaries (international)british empirecoloniesinternational relationsmapsplans
Research guides beginning with: P
- Parliament
Keywords: legislationparliamentpolitical history (general) - Passenger lists
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Passengers
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)emigrationimmigrationmigrationpassengers - Passports
Keywords: british citizenshipemigrationimmigrationmigrationnaturalisationpassport - People in business and trades
Keywords: business historyindustrylabour historytrade and industrytradesmen - Photographs
Keywords: photographs - Police
Keywords: metropolitan policepalestine policepoliceroyal irish constabularytransport police - Political history in the 16th and 17th centuries
Keywords: 16th century17th centuryearly modern periodpolitical history (general) - Political history in the 18th century
Keywords: 18th centuryearly modern periodpolitical history (general) - Political history in the medieval era – an overview
Keywords: medieval periodpolitical history (general) - Political history in the modern era, 1782 onwards – an overview
Keywords: 19th century20th centurypolitical history (general) - Poverty and the Poor Laws
Keywords: pauperspoor lawspovertyworkhouses - Prime Minister’s Office records
Keywords: prime ministerssecond world warworld war two - Prisoner of war interview reports 1914-1918
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Prisoners and convicts
Keywords: central criminal courtconvictscourts of lawcrime and criminalslaw and orderold baileyprisonerstrials - Prisoners and prison staff
Keywords: - Prisoners of war in British hands
Keywords: boer warcrimean warfirst world warpowsprisoners of warsecond world warworld war oneworld war two - Prisoners of war: selected records 1715-1945
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Prisons and prison staff
Keywords: law and orderprison staffprisons - Privy Council since 1386
Keywords: early modern periodforeign affairslaw and orderlegislationprivy council - Propaganda
Keywords: first world warpropagandasecond world warworld war oneworld war two - Public health and social policy in the 19th century
Keywords: epidemicshealthpolitical history (general) - Public health and social policy in the 20th century
Keywords: diseaseshealthmedical servicesmental healthpolitical history (general)welfare - Public rights of way, roads and other highways
Keywords: landland ownershipmapsordnance surveypublic rights of wayrights of way
Research guides beginning with: R
- Railway employment records 1833-1956
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Railway workers
Keywords: railwaystrains - Railways
Keywords: railwaystrains - Recommendations for military honours and awards 1935-1990
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Records of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Keywords: inquiries - Refugees
Keywords: aliens (foreign nationals)emigrationimmigrationjewish historymigrationrefugees - Religious houses and their lands c.1000-1530
Keywords: abbeyschurch landsmonasteriesreligious history - Research and development in the British Army
Keywords: armybritish armyordnance (military supplies) - Research and development in the Royal Air Force and civil aviation
Keywords: air transportaviationcivil aviationrafroyal air force - Research and development in the Royal Navy
Keywords: navyordnance (military supplies)royal navyshipping - Royal Air Force airmen service records 1912-1939
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Royal Air Force combat reports 1939-1945
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Royal Air Force nurses
Keywords: nursesrafroyal air forcesecond world war personnelwomen's military service - Royal Air Force officers’ service records 1918-1919
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Royal Air Force operations
Keywords: combat reports (raf)first world warrafroyal air forceroyal flying corpsroyal naval air servicesecond world warsquadrons (royal air force)world war oneworld war two - Royal Air Force operations record books 1911-1963
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Royal Air Force personnel
Keywords: campaign medalscourts martialpowsprisoners of warrafroyal air forcesecond world war personnel - Royal Air Force squadrons
Keywords: rafroyal air forcesquadrons (royal air force) - Royal Flying Corps airmen
Keywords: royal flying corps - Royal Flying Corps officers
Keywords: officers (air forces)royal flying corps - Royal grants in letters patent and charters from 1199
Keywords: chartersearly modern periodlandland ownershipletters patentpatent rollsroyal grants - Royal Household and Wardrobe
Keywords: crown servantsearly modern periodroyal householdroyal servantsroyal warrant holderstradesmen - Royal Irish Constabulary, 1836-1922
Keywords: irelandpoliceroyal irish constabulary - Royal Marines officers
Keywords: first world warofficers (royal marines)royal marinesworld war one - Royal Marines other ranks
Keywords: first world warroyal marinesworld war one - Royal Marines’ service records 1842-1925
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Royal Naval Air Service officers
Keywords: first world warofficers (air forces)royal naval air serviceworld war one - Royal Naval Air Service officers’ service records 1906-1918
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Royal Naval Air Service ratings
Keywords: first world warroyal naval air serviceworld war one - Royal Naval correspondence using the ADM 12 indexes and digests
Keywords: admiraltyroyal navyshipping - Royal Naval Division personnel
Keywords: first world warroyal naval divisionroyal navyworld war one - Royal Naval Division service records 1914-1919
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Royal Naval dockyard staff
Keywords: dockyardnavyroyal navy - Royal Naval Reserve officers’ service records 1862-1964
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collectionsroyal naval reserve All records viewable online - Royal Naval Reserve personnel
Keywords: first world warnavyroyal naval reservesecond world war personnelworld war one - Royal Naval Reserve service records 1860-1955
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collectionsroyal naval reserve All records viewable online - Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel
Keywords: first world warnavyroyal naval volunteer reserveworld war one - Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve service records 1903-1922
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Royal Navy commissioned and warrant officers
Keywords: courts martialnavyofficers (royal navy)royal navy - Royal Navy commissioned and warrant officers’ pensions
Keywords: first world warnavyofficers (royal navy)pensionsroyal navyworld war one - Royal Navy commissioned and warrant officers’ pensions: claims by next of kin for unpaid monies 1830-1860
Keywords: digitised recordsonline collectionspensionsroyal navy All records viewable online - Royal Navy nurses and medical officers
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Keywords: medalsnavyroyal navy - Royal Navy ratings’ pensions 17th-20th centuries
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Research guides beginning with: T
- Taxation
Keywords: economic historyfinancial records of governmentinland revenuetaxation - Taxation before 1689
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Research guides beginning with: U
- UFOs
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Research guides beginning with: V
- Victoria Cross registers 1856-1944
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- War crimes 1939-1945
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Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online - Women in the British Army
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Keywords: pauperspoor lawsworkhouses