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The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn - Library & Archives

Library & archive of one of the four historic Inns Of Court. A private library available to researchers by appointment. The library is happy to answer genealogical & other enquiries from the public about past members of the Inn, as long as they are made in writing. Membership lists exist from 1521 & call records from 1650. Up to 1889 these records have also been conveniently printed. The surviving records of Barnard's Inn & Staple's Inn are also held.

The Museum of English Rural Life

Reading, Berkshire, England.

The National Archives (U.K.)

Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom.

The National Army Museum

London.

The National Coal Mining Museum for England

The National Railway Museum, York

The National Waterways Museum at Gloucester

The Rothschild Archive

The UK Public Libraries Page

Trades Union Congress Library Collection

From the University of North London.

UK Parliament - Parliamentary Archives

The archive service for both Houses of Parliament and facilitates public access to several million records which are preserved in the Victoria Tower repository. The records include original Acts of Parliament from 1497, Journals from 1510, papers laid before Parliament from 1531, Peerage papers from 1597, Judicial papers from 1621, and plans of canals, roads, railways and other public works deposited in connection with private bills from 1794. Amongst the comparatively few records of genealogical interest are the Protestation returns of 1642 and certain Papist returns.

University of Bristol Theatre Collection

Research centre dedicated to the study of British Theatre history and people.

University of York - Borthwick Institute for Archives