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.
- Organises research collaborations between University of Leeds departments and museums, galleries, heritage organizations within the region.
- Provides activities designed to appeal to those interested in the period spanning from Anglo-Saxon times to the sixteenth century. Includes information about membership, publications and manuscripts.
- A resource for teachers and learners inspired by museum, library and archive collections in Yorkshire. Includes online resources, organised by subject and age group.
- Richard Hayton tells the story of the Civil War sieges of Hull and the battle of Flamborough Head, and lists all Yorkshire fortifications from 1066 to 1900. Also Haltemprice Priory, the White Rose, lost pubs of Hull and historic images.
- Project at Sheffield University analysing the life, history and architecture of Cistercian monks in Yorkshire. Includes 3D virtual reality re-creations of the abbey buildings, and a gazetteer of Cistercian abbeys in the British Isles.
- Covers the last two millennia.
- Promotes the study of Yorkshire's historical past. Activities, programme, membership, publications and details of special interest groups.
- Offers a collection of old books on Yorkshire topics on computer searchable CDROM. Online shopping, with reviews and indexes.
- An informal group of family historians, who maintain this on-line listing of sources for records useful to local and family historians. Includes a forum.
- A co-operative programme involving public libraries, universities and newspaper publishers; offers an online database of newspaper collections and holdings, listed by title and locality.
- Parish registers in book, microfiche, and CDRom formats offered for sale, by the Parish Register Section of Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Also includes a listing of their unpublished holdings.
- A guide to Neolithic and Bronze Age rock carving sites in North and West Yorkshire; includes articles, maps, and analysis.
- Researches and records the vernacular architecture of Yorkshire, organises conferences, dayschools and walkabouts, and publishes newsheets and an annual journal.
- A list of mines worked under the Coal Mines Regulation Act, in the East and West Ridings, during 1896.
- Covering the whole of Yorkshire, this family history section of the Yorkshire Archeological Society offers membership, news, projects, photographs, and related information, with contact details.
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