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Cornell, E., University of Leicester, Library
Digital Library of Historical Directories, 1750-1919: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland, 1783-1880
Digital Library of Historical Directories, 1750-1919
UK Data Service
2022
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The Historical Directories Digitisation Project at the University of Leicester
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1st Edition
<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> This data collection includes the following directories:<br><br>- Bailey's Western &amp; Midland Directory for ... 1783. [Also 1784. Nottinghamshire only] (1783-84)<br><br>- Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce &amp; Manufacture, 1791-98. Nottingham &amp; Newark extracts (1791-98)<br><br>- The&nbsp; Leicester&nbsp; Directory,&nbsp; describing&nbsp; the&nbsp; bankers,&nbsp; manufacturers, and principal tradesmen with their places of residence, also the professors of law, physic &amp; divinity, the corporation, clergy, militia &amp;c. (1794)<br><br>- The Leicester Directory, containing a general list of&nbsp; the&nbsp; merchants,&nbsp; tradesmen,&nbsp; manufacturers,&nbsp; and&nbsp; principal&nbsp; inhabitants&nbsp; of&nbsp; Leicester,&nbsp; arranged&nbsp; in&nbsp; alphabetical&nbsp; order,&nbsp; separate&nbsp; alphabetical&nbsp; lists of each particular trade and profession (1815)<br><br>- The&nbsp; Nottingham&nbsp; Directory,&nbsp; containing&nbsp; a&nbsp; general&nbsp; list&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; merchants,&nbsp; tradesmen,&nbsp; and&nbsp; principal&nbsp; inhabitants&nbsp; of&nbsp; Nottingham, New Radford, and New Snenton (1815)<br><br>- Pigot's Directory of Leicestershire, 1822, 1828, 1835 (1822-35)<br><br>- Glover's&nbsp; Nottingham&nbsp; Directory,&nbsp; for&nbsp; 1825,&nbsp; being&nbsp; a&nbsp; general list of the merchants, tradesmen, and principal inhabitants of Nottingham, New Radford and New Snenton (1825)<br><br>- The&nbsp;&nbsp; Leicester&nbsp;&nbsp; Directory;&nbsp;&nbsp; containing&nbsp;&nbsp; an&nbsp;&nbsp; alphabetical&nbsp; list&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; inhabitants,&nbsp; a&nbsp; complete&nbsp; classification&nbsp; of&nbsp; trades,&nbsp; a&nbsp; new&nbsp; arrangement&nbsp; of&nbsp; coaches&nbsp; and&nbsp; carriers,&nbsp; a&nbsp; list&nbsp; of&nbsp; all&nbsp; the&nbsp; civil&nbsp; officers&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; town&nbsp; and&nbsp; county,&nbsp; the&nbsp; public&nbsp; institutions,&nbsp; churches and chapels, &amp;c. (1827)<br><br>- The&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; county&nbsp; of&nbsp; Derby,&nbsp; containing&nbsp; upwards of fifteen thousand names ... accurately taken during the years 1827, '8, and '9 (1829)<br><br>- History,&nbsp;&nbsp; Gazetteer,&nbsp;&nbsp; and&nbsp;&nbsp; Directory&nbsp;&nbsp; of&nbsp;&nbsp; Nottinghamshire, and the ... town of Nottingham (1832)<br><br>- The&nbsp; Nottingham&nbsp; Annual&nbsp; Register;&nbsp; containing&nbsp; an&nbsp; almanack,&nbsp; useful&nbsp; tables,&nbsp; chronicle&nbsp; of&nbsp; parliament,&nbsp; and&nbsp; remarkable&nbsp; occurrences,&nbsp; also&nbsp; a&nbsp; new&nbsp; and&nbsp; corrected&nbsp; directory&nbsp; for&nbsp; 1840 (1840)<br><br>- A&nbsp; Guide&nbsp; to&nbsp; Leicester,&nbsp; containing&nbsp; a&nbsp; list&nbsp; of&nbsp; streets,&nbsp; lanes,&nbsp; yards,&nbsp; &amp;c.,&nbsp; a&nbsp; directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; principal&nbsp; inhabitants,&nbsp; classification of trades and professions ... with an almanack for 1843, county information, etc. (1843)<br><br>- History,&nbsp;&nbsp; Gazetteer,&nbsp;&nbsp; and&nbsp;&nbsp; Directory&nbsp;&nbsp; of&nbsp;&nbsp; Leicestershire,&nbsp; and&nbsp; the&nbsp; small&nbsp; county&nbsp; of&nbsp; Rutland;&nbsp; together&nbsp; with&nbsp; the&nbsp; adjacent towns of Grantham &amp; Stamford (1846)<br><br>- Lascelles and Hagar's Commercial Directory of the town&nbsp; and&nbsp; county&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; town&nbsp; of&nbsp; Nottingham;&nbsp; also&nbsp; the&nbsp; parishes&nbsp; of&nbsp; Basford,&nbsp; Bridgford,&nbsp; Carlton,&nbsp; Lenton,&nbsp; Radford,&nbsp; Sneinton,&nbsp; Wilford,&nbsp; and&nbsp; Wollaton (1848)<br><br>- Slater's Directory of Rutlandshire (1850)<br><br>- Freebody's&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; Towns&nbsp; of&nbsp; Derby,&nbsp; Chesterfield,&nbsp;&nbsp; Alfreton,&nbsp;&nbsp; Buxton,&nbsp;&nbsp; Bakewell,&nbsp;&nbsp; Matlock,&nbsp;&nbsp; Wirksworth,&nbsp;&nbsp; Ashbourn,&nbsp; Belper,&nbsp; Melbourn,&nbsp; Ripley,&nbsp; Burtonupon-&nbsp; Trent,&nbsp; &amp;c.&nbsp; &amp;c.&nbsp; &amp;c. (1852)<br><br>- Melville&nbsp; &amp;&nbsp; Co.'s&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; and&nbsp; Gazetteer&nbsp; of&nbsp; Leicestershire,&nbsp; including&nbsp; all&nbsp; the&nbsp; market&nbsp; towns,&nbsp; with&nbsp; the&nbsp; adjacent&nbsp; villages, and containing a descriptive account of each place, followed by the directory (1854)<br><br>- Post&nbsp;&nbsp; Office&nbsp;&nbsp; Directory&nbsp;&nbsp; of&nbsp;&nbsp; Derbyshire&nbsp;&nbsp; and&nbsp;&nbsp; Nottinghamshire (1855)<br><br>- Post&nbsp;&nbsp; Office&nbsp;&nbsp; Directory&nbsp;&nbsp; of&nbsp;&nbsp; Derbyshire,&nbsp;&nbsp; Leicestershire,&nbsp; Nottinghamshire&nbsp; and&nbsp; Rutlandshire.&nbsp; [1855.&nbsp; Leics&nbsp; &amp;&nbsp; Rutland only] (1855)<br><br>- Slater's Directory of Rutlandshire (1858)<br><br>- Wright's&nbsp; Nottingham&nbsp; and&nbsp; Suburban&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; for&nbsp; 1858 (1858)<br><br>- Commercial Directory of Leicestershire, containing an&nbsp;&nbsp; alphabetical&nbsp;&nbsp; list&nbsp;&nbsp; of&nbsp;&nbsp; the&nbsp;&nbsp; gentry,&nbsp;&nbsp; merchants,&nbsp;&nbsp; manufacturers,&nbsp;&nbsp; professions,&nbsp; trades,&nbsp; etc.;&nbsp; and&nbsp; separate&nbsp; historical,&nbsp; statistical,&nbsp; and&nbsp; topographical&nbsp; descriptions&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; hundreds,&nbsp; towns,&nbsp; parishes (1861)<br><br>- Gazetteer&nbsp; and&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; Counties&nbsp; of&nbsp; Leicester&nbsp; &amp;&nbsp; Rutland;&nbsp; containing&nbsp; an&nbsp; alphabetical&nbsp; list&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; gentry,&nbsp; merchants,&nbsp; manufacturers,&nbsp; professions,&nbsp; trades,&nbsp; etc.;&nbsp; and&nbsp; separate&nbsp; historical,&nbsp;&nbsp; statistical,&nbsp;&nbsp; and&nbsp;&nbsp; topographical&nbsp;&nbsp; descriptions&nbsp;&nbsp; of&nbsp;&nbsp; the&nbsp;&nbsp; hundreds, towns, parishes (1861)<br><br>- Slater's Directory of Leicestershire (1862)<br><br>- Wright's&nbsp; Nottingham&nbsp; and&nbsp; Suburban&nbsp; Directory,&nbsp; for&nbsp; 1862 (1862)<br><br>- History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the Counties of&nbsp; Leicester&nbsp; and&nbsp; Rutland,&nbsp; comprising&nbsp; general&nbsp; surveys&nbsp; of&nbsp; each&nbsp; county,&nbsp; and separate historical, statistical and topographical descriptions of all their hundreds, towns, parishes (1863)<br><br>- Buchanan&nbsp; &amp;&nbsp; Co.'s&nbsp; Postal&nbsp; and&nbsp; Commercial&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; Leicester,&nbsp; including&nbsp; the&nbsp; market&nbsp; towns&nbsp; of&nbsp; Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Hinckley,&nbsp; Loughboro',&nbsp; Lutterworth,&nbsp; Market&nbsp; Bosworth,&nbsp; Market&nbsp; Harborough,&nbsp; Melton&nbsp; Mowbray,&nbsp; Mountsorrel,&nbsp; Whitwick,&nbsp; and&nbsp; surrounding&nbsp; villages (1867)<br><br>- Street,&nbsp; Alphabetical,&nbsp; and&nbsp; Trade&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; Leicester (1870)<br><br>- C. N. Wright's Directory of South Derbyshire, also including Alfreton, Ashbourne, Wirksworth, Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent and other&nbsp; places&nbsp; in&nbsp; Staffordshire,&nbsp; Notts.&nbsp; and&nbsp; Leicestershire&nbsp; within&nbsp; 12&nbsp; miles of Derby (1874)<br><br>- S.&nbsp; Barker&nbsp; &amp;&nbsp; Co.'s&nbsp; General&nbsp; Topographical&nbsp; and&nbsp; Historical&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; for&nbsp; the&nbsp; counties&nbsp; of&nbsp; Leicester,&nbsp; Rutland,&nbsp; &amp;c.&nbsp; ...&nbsp; The historic sketch of Leicester by James Thompson (1875)<br><br>- Commercial and General Directory and Red Book of Leicester and Suburbs (1875)<br><br>- The&nbsp; Post&nbsp; Office&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; counties&nbsp; of&nbsp; Leicester and Rutland (1876)<br><br>- Post Office Directory of Nottinghamshire (1876)<br><br>- History,&nbsp; Gazetteer&nbsp; and&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; Counties&nbsp; of Leicester and Rutland, comprising general surveys of each county and separate historical, statistical and topographical descriptions of all the hundreds, towns, parishes (1877)<br><br>- Commercial&nbsp; and&nbsp; General&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; and&nbsp; Red&nbsp; Book&nbsp; of&nbsp; Leicester &amp; six miles round, with Sileby and Mountsorrel (1878)<br><br>- Spencers' Illustrated Leicester Almanack, Diary, Peerage, Baronetage, Directory, and General Advertiser, for 1880 (1880)<br><br>- Commercial&nbsp; &amp;&nbsp; General&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; Leicestershire&nbsp; and Rutland, also Grantham, Stamford, and Atherstone (1880)