Not whole newspapers, but a selection of articles, under the following headings: * Trials at the Old Bailey, Hangings at Tyburn, Famous Criminals, Mobs and the Pillory * Love and Marriage, Abandoned Children, Rape and Infanticide, Sodomites and the Drury Lane Ladies * Bills of Mortality, Suicides, Natural Catastrophes, Horrid Accidents and Funeral Customs * Health and Beauty and Advertisements for Quack Medicines * Daily Life, Work and Poverty, Runaway Apprentices and Slaves, Commerce, Trade and Bankruptcy * Religion, Witchcraft, Jews, French Protestants * Scientific Inventions, Wonders of Nature and Monstrous Births * Politics and Public Order * Low-Life Literature

This is an index to Institutions in the 1901 Census of England and Wales.
It includes only those institutions that were enumerated separately from ordinary households, not those small ones that were enumerated amongst the surrounding houses.

by Dr Ashton Emery:
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Comprehensive descriptions of UK BMD certificates.

Links to all kinds of family history sites: census, bmd, newspapers, cemeteries, etc, etc.

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General information on what records are available in different countries and how to search for them.

"FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records. It is a part of the FreeUKGEN family, which also includes FreeCEN (Census data) and FreeREG (Parish Registers)."

Transcriptions of Parish Registers. "Our objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the U.K."

Ragged Schools, Industrial Schools and Reformatories

International Genealogical Index

Massive database for Jewish Genealogy

Searchable Genealogy Databases on the World Wide Web

Information pages on british mariners, and ks to many other "mariner" sites

This site contains information, on INDUSTRIAL/REFORMATORY SCHOOLS & the like in England and Wales during the 19th and early 20th century
Including Orphan Homes, Refuges, Ragged Schools, Missions, Scattered Homes

"An Online Parish Clerk (OPC) researches all the available historical data they can find on a parish, records are transcribed, and in order to promote further private research, are made FREELY available to any researcher. An OPC is a volunteer and should not be confused with the civil Parish Clerk appointed by a Parish Council."
See the UK-BMD Site for a full list of Online Parish Clerk sites, or
RootsChat Topic: Online Parish Clerks - OPC

Free Databases for Genealogical Searching

Asylums, Workhouses, etc, etc

Frequency and Ranking of Surnames in GB

The UK-BMD Site.

Rossbret Institutions Site. General and specific histories of workhouses.
Details of available records, Photos, plans, descriptions, etc.