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| − | ==The Family Tree Forum Timeline==
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| − | Our ancestors (like us) were shaped by the world they lived in and the sudden movement of a family, for example, from their birthplace to another part of the country could be explained by what was happening in the wider world.
| + | '''The content of this page has been moved to a new location in the Reference Library which can be accessed via the <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.familytreeforum.com/content.php Home Page]</span> of the forum.''' |
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| − | '''[[The Timeline]]''' will help you to put the personal life of your ancestors in context with the social and political situation of the time. | + | '''Click <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.familytreeforum.com/content.php/313-General-History here]</span> to be redirected to the new location.''' |
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| − | ==Pathé News Online==
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| − | Until 1970 cinemas all over Britain showed Pathé newsreels. Now you can view the entire collection, over 3500 hours, online at:
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| − | *[http://www.britishpathe.com Pathé News]
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| − | It is necessary to register, but whilst there is a charge for high-resolution copies of the films you can view low resolution versions free of charge. Almost all are in black and white, and the very earliest footage is silent.
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| − | The earliest films date from 1896! Pathé display a Top Twenty on their site - the most popular when we checked was a film of the Titanic, but an early favourite of ours is the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901.
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| − | *[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ British History Online]
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| − | ==Related Pages==
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| − | *[[Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen]]
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| − | *[[Evacuation_and_Evacuees#British_Home_Children|British Home Children]]
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| − | *[[Canals and Canal Carriers]]
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| − | *[[Charitable Organisations]]
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| − | *[[Costume Past and Present]]
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| − | *[[Law and Law Enforcement]]
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| − | *[[Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers]]
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| − | *[[Emigration and Immigration]]
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| − | *[[Entertainment]]
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| − | *[[Evacuation and Evacuees]]
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| − | *[[Fairground/Showmen/Travellers]]
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| − | *[[Farming and Agriculture]]
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| − | *[[Inns and Public Houses]]
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| − | *[[Irish Political and Social History]]
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| − | *[[Maps and Photography]]
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| − | *[[:Category:Military and Maritime History|Military and Maritime History]]
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| − | *[[Mining and Heavy Industry]]
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| − | *[[Nursing]]
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| − | *[[Places of Worship]]
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| − | *[[Railways]]
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| − | *[[Religion and the Clergy]]
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| − | *[[Sport]]
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| − | *[[Stonemasons]]
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| − | *[[Trades and Occupations]]
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| − | *[[Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanitoriums|Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanatoriums]]
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| − | ==Schools and Education==
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| − | *[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Parliamentary Legislation]
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| − | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education]
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| − | ==Museums and Galleries==
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| − | *[http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum - The Story of the Infantry of Berkshire and Wiltshire]
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| − | *[http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Beamish Open Air Museum, County Durham. Northern Life in The 1800s & Early 1900s.]
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| − | *[http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp Theme Museum Malton, North Yorkshire. Centred on The History of WW2.]
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| − | *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/saltaire.shtml Saltaire, Bradford. Factory & Village Built by Millowner & Philanthropist Sir Titus Salt]
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| − | *[http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Salts Mill - Home to The David Hockney Exhibition.]
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| − | *[http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/ History of Woollen Cloth in Trowbridge]
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| − | *[http://catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk/DServe/DServe.exe?dsqServer=localhost&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Index.tcl The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA)]
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| − | *[[See How Your Ancestors Lived]]
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| − | *[http://www.oldandinteresting.com/ Old and interesting - History of Domestic Paraphernalia]
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| − | ==Work and Trade Associations / Unions==
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| − | *[http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Affiliated Friendly Societies]
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| − | *[http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors]
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| − | *[http://www.unionhistory.info/matchworkers/browse.php Bryant & May Matchworkers Strike Fund Register 1888]
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| − | *[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/catalogues/unions/ Trade Unions and Similar Organisations]
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| − | ==Political Parties and Movements==
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| − | *[http://chartists.net/ Chartist Ancestors]
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| − | *[http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM Give Women The Vote!]
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| − | *[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm Famous Suffragettes]
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| − | *[http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm What Did The Suffragettes Do?]
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| − | ==The Industrial Revolution==
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| − | *[http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum]
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| − | *[http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm The History of The Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands 1700 -1830]
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| − | ==American History==
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| − | '''[http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/USA#Military_History See Separate page]'''
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| − | ==Civilian Transport==
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| − | *[http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching]
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| − | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottinghamshire_and_Derbyshire_Tramways_Company Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company.]
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| − | *[http://www.lvta.co.uk/history.htm London Horse Cabs and Hackney Carriages History]
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| − | *[http://asms.k12.ar.us/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/helicptr/webpage.htm The Evolution of the Helicopter]
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| − | *[http://www.ba-gb.com/index.php?ps=8 A Brief History Of The Bicycle]
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| − | *[http://www.alcester.dial.pipex.com/localpast/94au/oral.htm Oral Account of Coach Building, Early 1900s]
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| − | *[http://www.railwayancestors.org.uk/ The Railway Ancestors Family History Society]
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| − | *[http://web.onyxnet.co.uk/Auffret-onyxnet.co.uk/railways/railways.htm The North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway]
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| − | *[http://www.seasidehistory.co.uk/index.html Seaside Travel and Nostalgia]
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| − | *[http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/ukregistrations.html History Behind British Vehicle Registration System]
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| − | *[http://www.britishtaxdiscs.co.uk/tax-disc-history.php History of The Road Fund Licence - Tax Disk]
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| − | *[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Transport Times Past - Transport]
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| − | Go to [[Railways]] Page
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| − | ==Architecture and Old Buildings==
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| − | *[http://www.churchplansonline.org/ Church Plans Online]
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| − | *[http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, The First Garden City]
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| − | *[http://www.cadbury.co.uk/CADBURYANDCHOCOLATE/OURSTORY/PHILAN/Pages/bvttoday.aspx Bournville Village (Founded by Richard and George Cadbury)]
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| − | *[http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/ Port Sunlight founded by William Lever]
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| − | *[http://www.jrht.org.uk/Your+community/Communities+by+location/New+Earswick New Earswick Village built by Joseph Rowntree]
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| − | *[http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/castles.html#A British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses]
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| − | *[http://www.victorianstation.com/architecturemenu.htm Victorian Architecture, (mostly American)]
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| − | *[http://www.buildinghistory.org/ Researching Historic Buildings in The British Isles]
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| − | *[http://www.victorianlondon.org/ Explore Victorian London]
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| − | ==The British Monarchy==
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| − | *[http://www.royal.gov.uk/ The Offical Website of The British Monarchy]
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| − | *[http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web]
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| − | *[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Royal%20events Times Past - Royal Events]
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| − | ==The Landed Gentry==
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| − | *[http://www.sledmerehouse.com/ Sledmere House, Home of Sir Tatton Sykes]
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| − | *[http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0601sykes.html Papers of Sykes Family- Held at Brynmor-Jones Library, The University of Hull.]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/sledmere.htm The Sledmere Stud, Driffield, East Yorkshire]
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| − | *[http://www.r-alston.co.uk/country_house_database.htm A Database of Country Houses in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Some of The Surrounding Islands, With Brief Histories]
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| − | *[http://www.leighrayment.com/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page - a database of MPs]
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| − | *[http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/wagon/ Sir Mark Sykes Bart]
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| − | ==Jewish History==
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| − | [[image:Ark and pulpit Brighton Synagogue.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Ark and pulpit. Middle St Synagogue, Brighton]]
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| − | *[http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/londweb.htm The London Jews Database (pre-1850)]
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| − | *[http://www.jeffreymaynard.com/index.htm Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies]
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| − | *[http://www.jewishgen.org/ JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy]
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| − | *[http://www.saudades.org/ Saudades Portuguese Sephardic History]
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| − | *[http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_9E The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names]
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| − | *[http://www.joodsmonument.nl/article.php?thg_id=HELP&lang=en Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands]
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| − | *[http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/ Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain]
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| − | ==The Celts==
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| − | *[http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry - The Anglo-Saxon and The Celtic Age]
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| − | ==Slavery==
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| − | *[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/eabolition.asp International Slavery Museum]
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| − | *[http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces The Transantlantic Slave Trade Database]
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| − | *[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm The Slave Trade - 1700-1930]
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| − | *[http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas]
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| − | *[http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html#A North American Slave Narratives]
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| − | *[http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/slavery/index.htm?cids=Google_PPC&cre=Slavery The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Abolition Movement] Time Line of Key Events
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| − | *[http://www.brycchancarey.com/index.htm Slavery, Emancipation, and Abolition]
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| − | *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/ Abolition of The Slave Trade]
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| − | *[http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/atlantic.slave.trade.html Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade 1502 - 1841]
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| − | *[http://www.discoveringbristol.org.uk/subIndex.php?sit_id=1 Bristol and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade]
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| − | *[http://www.recoveredhistories.org/ Recovered Histories- Reawakening The Narratives of Enslavement, Resistance and the Fight For Freedom]
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| − | *[http://www.revealinghistories.org.uk/ Revealing History - Remembering Slavery]
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| − | *[http://www.abolition200.org.uk/ Abolition 200 The Bicentenary of the Abolition of The Slave Trade Act]
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| − | *[http://compensations.plantations.bb/ Slave Compensation Claims]
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| − | ==Current Value of Old Money==
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| − | *[http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html Current value of old money]
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| − | *[http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/money.htm Pre-decimal Sterling Coinage]
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| − | ==Uncategorised==
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| − | *[http://www.britishfarthings.com/Tokens/17th-Century/17th-Century.html 17th-Century Farthing Trade Tokens]
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| − | *[http://www.footrule.com/1/conversn/oengothr.htm?sr=homepage&ac=0 Old English Weights and Measures]
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| − | *[http://home.clara.net/brianp/index.html Weights and Measures]
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| − | *[http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html Nova Roma Guide to understanding Roman Numerals]
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| − | *[http://www.roman-britain.org/numerals.htm Roman Britain. understanding Roman Numerals]
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| − | *[http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html Day of Week Calculator]
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| − | *[http://homepages.tesco.net/~jk.calisto/calisto/ A Calender Program for Western Europe AD 326 - 2999]
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| − | *[http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html Ecclesiastical Calendar Calculator]
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| − | *[http://www.londonlibraries.org/servlets/llil/archives London Local Studies Libraries and Archives]
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| − | *[http://www.arewerelated.co.uk/ Are We Related? (A Forum)]
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| − | *[http://www.weddingspastandpresent.co.uk/ Weddings Past and Present]
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| − | *[http://home.snu.edu/~dwilliam/f97projects/contraception/history.htm a Brief History of Contraception]
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| − | *[http://www.genealogyprinters.com Family Tree & Chart Printing]
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| − | *[http://www.netserf.org/glossary/ Hypertext Medieval Glossary]
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| − | *[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Youth%20groups Tales from Youth Organisations]
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| − | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworths_Group Woolworths History]
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| − | *[http://www.examstutor.com/business/resources/companyprofiles/marksandspencer/history.php The History of Marks and Spencer]
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