You may be interested in some recent updates to the Historical Directories of England and Wales collection, maintained by the University of Leicester Library. 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. In 2019/20, we have: 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_directori...
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