Historical local and trade directories for England and Wales covering 1766 to 1919. Note also other digitised collections to explore.
http://cdm16445.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16445coll4
Explore 14 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 58 million patents, 3 million sound recordings, and much more. Lots of family history resources and guides to the collections. India Office, newspaper collections and maps.
http://www.bl.uk
The Borthwick Institute for Archives is one of the biggest archive repositories outside London.
Provincial and diocesan records and:
Probate courts
Probate Records at the Borthwick: an introduction to the various courts and their jurisdictions:
Introduction
Yorkshire Probate Records, before 1858
Exchequer and Prerogative Court of York
Chancery Court
Dean and Chapter Court
Probate Records from other Parts of the Northern Province
Probate Records from the Southern Province
http://www.york.ac.uk/library/borthwick
AIM25 is a major project to provide electronic access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over one hundred higher education institutions, learned societies, cultural organisations and livery companies within the greater London area. This work is in progress - new data is being added regularly, so please visit often to see latest additions.
http://www.aim25.ac.uk
Website of The National Archives for the UK. Search their catalogue, read their research guides, order online material through Documents Online, listen to podcasts and more.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
A range of in-depth research guides to the collections held at The National Archives in Kew, Surrey.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guide-listing.htm
A list of record offices in England with phone numbers and, in many cases, web addresses.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/bicentenary/bilinks.html
A combined catalogue of holdings in archives throughout England and Wales.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a
