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• FamilySearch Wiki - Britain and Ireland Family History Centres

• Galleries of Justice

  Nottingham. Collections focus on law and policing.

• Guildhall Library Manuscripts Collection

  • Collage Portal

    An image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London.

  • sea[email protected]

    Experienced researchers will undertake fee-for-service research in Guildhall Library's collections.

• Hudson's Bay Company Archives (HBCA)

  A division of the Archives of Manitoba, is home to one of Canada's national treasures - the records of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).

• Huguenot Library

  At the University College London.

  • eUCLid - the University College London Online Library Catalog

• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

  • Library & Information Service

    • Founding Fathers Knowledge Guide

      A guide to tracing the history of a firm or an ancestor who was a Chartered Accountant and what material the ICAEW hold that can help.

    • Members Lists of Accountancy Bodies

      A guide to our unique collection of over 220 series of membership lists for accountancy bodies from 1877 to the present day. Includes an A-Z listing.

    • What's in a name: Firms' simplified family trees on the web

      Family trees showing the development of the big accountancy firms of the 1980s.

• Internet Memory | UK Government Web Archive

  The National Archives - UK Government Web Archive of FamilyRecords.gov.uk

• John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera

  At the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

• Lambeth Palace Library

  London.

• LDS Family History Centres in the British Isles, Including Ireland and Scotland

• Manchester Archives and Local Studies

  Manchester.

  • Family History in Manchester

• Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection

  London.

• Merseyside Maritime Museum

  Liverpool, England.

• Methodist Collections (The John Rylands University Library - The University of Manchester)

  Methodist Church of Great Britain.

• Methodist Heritage in the UK

  Methodist Heritage provides a guide to the main locations in Britain with buildings or sites of particular Methodist historic interest. Includes libraries and other research centers with Methodist holdings.

  • Methodist Heritage - Research Libraries

    Select list of libraries and archives in Great Britain with Methodist holdings.

• Midlands Screen Archive | MACE

  The screen archive for the Midlands in the UK. A 70,000 strong collection of film, tape and digital material, much searchable and viewable online, from commercial TV and private collections.

• Mills Archive

  Archive and resource library specializing in traditional mills and milling.

• Modern Records Centre

  The Centre's holdings focus on UK trade union records. It also holds the records of some interest groups and political organisations (including West Midlands), of individuals and business (particularly the motor industry). Hosted by the University of Warwick Library, the MRC holds records of interest to the genealogist regarding trades union membership amongst other topics.

  • Genealogy at the Modern Records Centre

    List of occupations covered by the archives for which genealogical guides are available:

    • Carvers, Picture-Frame Makers and Gilders

    • Compositors

    • House Decorators & Painters

    • Railwaymen

    • Stonemasons & Quarrymen

• National Gas Archive

  Company archive of the Lattice Group which holds the historical records of the UK gas industry dating from the early 19th Century.

• National Maritime Museum

  • Library and Archive Collection

    • Research Guides from The National Maritime Museum

      A listing of the National Maritime Museum's online research guides to their library and collections and to other related maritime sources.

      • Research Guide No. A3 - Tracing Family History from Maritime Records

        A brief introduction to maritime records you can use to discover more about your ancestors, family history or famous people. It is intended to help you get started on your research, using the National Maritime Museum's library and archives and other resources outside the museum.

      • Research Guide No. F1 - Shipping Companies: Records held by the National Maritime Museum

        This guide lists the shipping companies whose records, or part-records, are held by the National Maritime Collection. These are mainly business records and do not cover operations, voyages or passenger lists.