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DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 5116 Digital Library of Historical Directories, 1750-1919: Durham and Northumberland, 1801-1916 511610.5255/UKDA-SN-5116-2 Cornell, E., University of Leicester, Library Copyright University of Leicester Higher Education Funding CouncilsNew Opportunities Fund UK Data Service 09 August 2006 SOCIAL HISTORYADMINISTRATIVE HISTORYDIRECTORIESCOMMERCIAL DIRECTORIESTRADE DIRECTORIESLOCAL HISTORYECONOMIC HISTORY Trade, industry and marketsHistory 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 <a href="http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4" target="_blank">online version</a> of this resource can be found on the Website of the University of Leicester. This data collection includes the following directories: - Directory  for  the  year  1801,  of  the  town  and  county  of  Newcastle  upon  Tyne,  Gateshead,  and  places  adjacent,  containing  an  alphabetical  list  of  merchants,  bankers,  brokers,  wharfingers,  and  coal  fitters;  likewise  of  the  manufacturers,  traders  ...  To  which  is  prefixed,  an  account  of  Newcastle,  its  commerce,  curiosities, and public buildings (1801) - History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the Counties of Durham and Northumberland, and the towns and counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne  and  Berwick-upon-Tweed (1827) - Ward's  Northumberland  and  Durham  Directory;  containing  Alnwick,  Bambrough,  Belford,  Berwick,  Gateshead,  Newcastle,  North Shields, South Shields, Sunderland, and their localities (1850) - Hagar and Co.'s Directory of the County of Durham. Containing   an   alphabetical   list   of   the   gentry,   merchants,   manufacturers,  professions,  trades,  &c.,  and  separate  historical,  statistical, and topographical descriptions of the towns, parishes (1851) - The Durham Directory and Almanack (1854) - History,   Topography,   and   Directory   of   Northumberland,  comprising  a  general  survey  of  the  county,  and  a  history   of   ...   Newcastle-upon-Tyne,   with   separate   historical,   statistical, and descriptive sketches of the boroughs of Gateshead and Berwick-upon-Tweed (1855) - The Durham Directory and Almanack (1857) - Post  Office  Directory  of  Northumberland  and  Durham (1858) - Kelly's  Directory  of  Newcastle-on-Tyne  and  Suburbs (1886) - Kelly's Directory of Durham (1890) - Ward's  Directory  of  Newcastle-on-Tyne  and  the  adjacent villages; together with an almanac, a town and county guide, and a commercial advertiser (1890) - Kelly's Directory of Northumberland (1894) - Ward's  Directory  of  Newcastle-on-Tyne  and  the  adjacent villages; together with an almanac, a town and county guide, and a commercial advertiser (1898) - Ward's  Directory  of  Newcastle-on-Tyne  with  its  extended boundary, which now includes: Benwell Village, South, West and New  Benwell,  Fenham,  Scotswood,  Walker  and  Walker  Gate,  Wallsend,  and  the adjacent villages (1910) - Kelly's  Directory  of  Durham  and  Northumberland,  1914. [Durham only] (1914) - Kelly's Directory of Northumberland (1914) - Ward's  Directory  of  Newcastle-on-Tyne  with  its  extended boundary, which now includes Benwell Village, South, West and New  Benwell,  Fenham,  Scotswood,  Walker  and  Walker  Gate.  Wallsend  and  the adjacent villages (1916)Main Topics: The directories included are of many different kinds, commonly embracing trade, commercial, and private resident directories, together with gazetteers, almanacs, official information, etc. For the purposes of deposit in the UK Data Archive, the collection has been divided into 35 studies on a regional and temporal basis. 01 June 2001 - 01 October 200431 May 200130 September 2004 England Durham (County)Northumberland NationalText units (documents/chapters/words) Selected Directories from England TextStill image Cross-sectional (one-time) study No sampling (total universe) Compilation or synthesis of existing material The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you. See <restrctn> Welding, D. and Nash, S. (2004) 'The Historical Directories Digitisation Project at the University of Leicester', The Local Studies Librarian, 23, 1, 4-10 The Historical Directories Digitisation Project at the University of Leicester https://oai.ukdataservice.ac.uk:8443/oai/provider 5116 2024-11-28T07:25:43Z ddi:codebook:2_5