England Directories: Difference between revisions

== '''Directories in England and Wales'''''[[England]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[England Directories|Directories]]''  

<br>The publication of directories, originally alphabetical lists of the names and addresses of tradesmen, was very much a consequence of the growth of permanent shopping and trading centres in the 18th century. [[Image:Abbots Bridge Suffolk.jpg|thumbthumb|right|250px|] Towns that had an overseas trade were the first to have them: London from 1734, Dublin from 1751 and other places from the 1760s and 1770s. The first directory covering a group of towns ('a national directory') appeared in 1781, the first for a whole county, including farmers and craftsmen, in 1784, and the first to include private residents in 1792. English directories rarely include more than the name of the head of the household; other family members are not mentioned.