England Family and Local History Websites - International Institute

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List Of Addresses

British and Foreign School Society
Maybrook House
Godstone Road
Caterham CR3 6RE

Lambeth Palace Library
London, SE1 7JU
UK

Church of England Record Centre
Lambeth Palace Library
Email: archives@churchofengland.org

Charity Commission for England and Wales
P.O. Box 1227Liverpool L69 3UG

Access to Archives (A2A)
Anatomy Database
Ancestry
Antiquarian books and documents	Find dealers from Cyndi’s List – Books (Used, Rare, Search Services). Auction houses include: Ebay Ambra Books John Towsend
Archive CD Books
Archives Hub
ARCHON
Berrow’s Worcester Journal
Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum	Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3BX
Bookplate Society
Booth notebooks
British and Foreign School Society
British historical sources
British Library
British Library Historical Collections
British Library Newspaper Library	Colindale Avenue, The Hyde, London NW9 5HE
British Record Society
British Telecom Museum	Baynard House, 135 Queen Victoria Street, London Not open to the public
Burke and Hare case
Charity Commission for England and Wales	P.O. Box 1227Liverpool L69 3UG
Church of England Record Centre	Email: archivist@c-of-e.org.uk
Church of England Record Society
College of Arms/Heralds
Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL)
Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
Direct resources (directories)
Dr. Barnardo’s Children’s Homes
Discovery
English Heritage
Ephemera Society
Family Tree Magazine
Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS)	Publications, Units 15 and 16 Chesham Industrial Estate, Oram Street, Bury, Lancs BL9 6EN
Florence Nightingale Museum	St. Thomas’s Hospital, 2 Lambeth Palace Rd. London SE1 7EW
Francis Frith collection of photographs
Gazettes for London, Edinburgh and Belfast
Glenside Hospital Museum	The Church, Blackberry Hill Hospital Stapleton, Bristol BS16 1DD
Guild of One-Name Studies (GOONS)
Guildhall Library	40 NorthamptonLondon EC1R 0HB
Guildhall Library, City of London
Historical Documents
Hospital Records Database
Illustrated London News
Internet Library of Early Journals
Jenner Museum	Berkeley Gloucestershire GL13 9BN
Lambeth Palace Library	London SE1 7JU UK
FamilySearch Library website
London Gazette
London Metropolitan Archives (LMA)
London museums and archives
Manorial Documents Register (MDR)
Medical Archives and Manuscripts Survey (MAMS)
Medical terminology	Cyndi's List The Olive Tree Genealogy Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms Hall Geneoalogy Site
Molecular Genealogy Research Project
Monumental Brass Society
Museum of Costume at Bath
National Register of Archives
General Register Office
Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret	9a St. Thomas Street London SE1 9RY
Oriental and India Office Collections	British Library, 96 Euston Road London NW1 2D Email: oioc-enquiries@bl.uk
Perseus London Library
Picture Post
Picture Post photo archive
PROCAT
Punch magazine
Red Cross
Royal College of Surgeons of England Museums	35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields London WC2A 3PE
Royal London Hospital Archives and Museum	Housed in the crypt of St. Augustines with St. Philip’s Church, Newark Street, London E1 2AA; postal address: Archives and Museum, Royal London Hospital Whitechapel, London E1 1BB.
Royal Photographic Society Historical Group	46 Milsom Street Bath, Avon BA1 5DN
Society of Genealogists	14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA
Stamford Mercury
Stephen G. Beaumont Museum	Field Head Hospital, Ouchthorpe Lane Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF1 3SP
Strand magazine
Sue O’Neill’s searchable Trade Directory Index
The National Archives (TNA)
University of Leicester directories project
Victoria and Albert Museum	Cromwell Road, South Kensington London SW7 2RL
Victoria County Histories
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine

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