You may be interested in some recent updates to the Historical Directories of England and Wales collection, maintained by the University of Leicester Library.
The collection is the largest freely available digitised collection of trade and street directories. The collection contains 689 directories, with at least one directory for every English and Welsh county for the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s. Searchable by name, place and occupation this is an essential tool for local, urban and family history.
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| Post Office Bradford Directory, 1891 (Bradford: William Byles & Sons, 1891), 634. |
The collection is the largest freely available digitised collection of trade and street directories. The collection contains 689 directories, with at least one directory for every English and Welsh county for the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s. Searchable by name, place and occupation this is an essential tool for local, urban and family history.
- Restored the background pages, originally written by Andrew Hann http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/custom/background
- Created a How to Search video https://youtu.be/Ml3AAvoM0ac
- Created an online bibliography for scholarship using directories as a source https://www.zotero.org/groups/2337777/trade_directories
Finally, a reminder that if you want to access the image and text files from the original digitisation, they are available via the UK Data Service https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/ . Search: “Digital Library of Historical Directories”.