Trades and Occupations

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General

• Index of Old Occupations
• Victorian Occupations

Shoemakers

• Norwich Boot & Shoe Industry

• Shoe making terms explained

• Victorian London-Boot and shoe makers

• Producing history: the clicker's tale - England

Textiles

• Silk Weaving in Foleshill, Coventry

• Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum, Notts

• Textiles and Cotton Mills in Lancashire and Manchester

• Kidderminster's Carpet Heritage

Metalworking

• Kidwelly Tin Plate Workers

Ceramics

• Database of over 1500 Stoke-on-Trent Potters

• Glossary of Occupations in the Pottery industry

Sports

• Cricketers past and present

• Database of over 50,000 cricketers and officials

• Pre-war British Boxing

Surgical

• Nursing

• Database of Australian medical pioneers from the 1700s-1875

• Surgeons and physicians licensed by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775

Awaiting Classification

• Sugar Refiners and Sugar Bakers

• A biographical database of the British Chemical Community 1880-1970

• British Milling

• British and Irish Clock & Watch Makers

• Clock and Watch makers

• BRITISH BOOK TRADE INDEX Index of names and brief trade and biographical details of people who were in the book trade in England and Wales and were trading by 1851.
  

• THE SCOTTISH BOOK TRADE Includes printers, bookbinders and stationers.

• Artists, Designers and Craftspeople

• Database of ORGANISTS, ORGAN BUILDERS and COMPOSERS OF ORGAN MUSIC

• Overseas Missionaries

• Brushmaking

• The London Gazette

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