The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 29, July 18, 2004, Article 14

LOCAL AND TRADE DIRECTORIES ONLINE

  Larry Mitchell writes that he found online "...a collection of
  historical local and trade directories for England and Wales.
  Currently directories from 1750-1920, divided by era....
  Click on the title of the directory and you'll get a set of
  images through which you can browse. Pages are zoomable;
  information about the directory is available on the left. There's
  also a link to search the entire collection"

  From the web site: "The University of Leicester's New
  Opportunities Fund project is creating a digital library of
  eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century local and
  trade directories from England and Wales.  Directories of
  counties and towns are among the most important sources
  for local and genealogical studies. They include lists of
  names, addresses and occupations of the inhabitants of the
  counties and towns they describe, and successive editions
  reflect the changes in the localities over a period of time.

  High quality digital reproductions of a large selection of these
  comparatively rare books, previously only found in libraries
  and record offices, will be freely available online to anyone
  with an Internet connection.  This online collection will bring
  together a greater number and range of directories than any
  one repository could provide.   There is also a powerful search
  engine available so that names, occupations, addresses and
  other key words or phrases can be located to their exact
  places on pages within the text."

  historicaldirectories.org

  [Directories have always been a great starting point for
  researchers of tokens and other local numismatic items.
  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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