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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of the project was to improve access to local and trade directories for the period 1750-1919 by making a substantial collection of English and Welsh directories available online as a Digital Library of Historical Directories. This digital resource comprises in total some 600 directories, covering every English county together with Wales, and ranging widely over the period 1750-1919 (the latter cut-off point chosen for copyright reasons). There is a particular focus on the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s, with at least one directory provided for each county in each of these decades. The digitisation of the volumes involved a two-stage process, in which (1) the hard-copy source was scanned to produce a graphic image of each page, and then (2) those images were processed using OCR software to generate a machine-readable text file.An online version of this resource can be found on the Website of the University of Leicester. This data collection includes the following directories:- Kelly's  Directory  of  Cambridgeshire,  Norfolk  &  Suffolk. [Part 1: Cambridgeshire] (1892)- Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. [Part 2: Norfolk] (1892)- Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. [Part 3: Suffolk] (1892)- Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. [Cambridgeshire only] (1896)- Kelly's Directory of Norfolk (1896)- Kelly's Directory of Suffolk (1900)- Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire (1904)- Kelly's Directory of Norfolk (1904)- Cowell's Directory of Felixstowe & Walton (1909)- Kelly's Directory of Norfolk (1912)- Kelly's Directory of Suffolk (1912)- Street and General Directory of Cambridge (1913)- Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire (1916)Main Topics:The directories included are of many different kinds, commonly embracing trade, commercial, and private resident directories, together with gazetteers,...