Welcome to our British Directory.
This page provides a structured index of UK-focused websites, organised by topic to help you discover established online resources. The listings are based on historic human-edited directory data and have been preserved to highlight long-standing sites across the British web.
Many shorter-lived sites have disappeared over time, leaving a core set of more established and durable resources. While some entries may no longer be active, this directory continues to offer a useful overview of trusted UK websites within this category.
- Articles, personal recollections, and audio and video footage covering local street names, characters, landmarks and language. Also includes a guide to help you get started researching local history.
- Local and global history activities from National Museums Liverpool, featuring items from their collections.
- A guide to the Wavertree district of Liverpool, including information on its history and landmarks.
- Site of a former soldier from Liverpool, who fought in Burma during the Second World War. Information about his upbringing, service history, reunions, and book.
- Celebrating the 800th anniversary of Liverpool's founding charter. Includes articles and links relating to the city's history.
- Historical photos, drawings, paintings and maps, with commentary.
- Includes articles, information about meetings and publications, and links.
- Offering a photographic tour of Liverpool, its places and people. Includes Beatles locations, homes and places of interest.
- Local maritime history. Includes information about meetings, and a selection of articles from their journal 'The Bulletin'.
- Georgian terraces and squares, maps, photos, historical illustrations, aerial shots, a pub guide and a 3-D model of the area.
- A concise history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
- Charity aiming to restore the light-vessel 'Planet' formerly stationed at the Mersey Bar. Includes a brief history of the ship, news, information about how you can help, and sales of maritime history products.
- Telling the story of Liverpool's seafaring heritage and the merchant navy. Information about the collections and exhibitions, the slave trade, and the Battle of the Atlantic.
- Local history articles, plus a history bulletin board and information about courses.
- Celebrating the people of Liverpool. Includes details about exhibitions, articles on historical personalities, community projects, and visitor information.
- A site dedicated to the Liverpool suburb of Norris Green.
- Contains details of the historical links between Liverpool and America plus emigration, military, cultural and commercial information. Includes rare photo images.
- Transcriptions and images from Liverpool newspapers, mostly from the 19th century, including marriages, obituaries, shipping records and articles.
- Liverpool and Merseyside's life and times, from old newspaper transcriptions. Includes deaths, inquests, passenger lists, crimes and history.
- Home page for the Mersey Gateway Project, aiming to create an online illustrated history of the port of Liverpool.
- Brief account of the growth of Liverpool, with contemporary quotations.
- Transcriptions from the headstones in the churchyard of St Peter�s Church, Woolton, with a paragraph on the history of the church.
- Photos from 1954, showing the stations, structure and car sheds of the now dismantled railway. With commentary.
- A non-commercial website, shared with those who have an interest in the unique history of the Toxteth area of Liverpool.
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