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England:- Occupations |
A Glossary of Ranks, Professions, Occupations & Trades provided by GenDocs.
Rodney Hall also has a page listing old occupational terms.
CricInfo provided has a database of Cricketers who played for the England team.
The Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England, 1801-1900 seems to have disappeared form the Internet - if you find it, please use the contribution link below to let me know the URL.
Two useful books about agricultural practice and implements are The Land of England by Dorothy Hartley and Woodland Crafts in Britain by Herbert L.Edlin (ISBN 0715358529).
George's: Canal Boating in the U.K. and Europe website provides maps of navigable canals in England and Wales. The CANAL-PEOPLE and the ENG-CANAL-PEOPLE Mailing Lists are valuable resource for those with ancestors who were canal workers or barge owners.
A very useful Dictionary of Occupational Terms is available on CD from the Open University. This CD reproduces the 1927 Ministry of Labour guide to occupational terms used in the 1921 census. Although this is a 20th century publication, many of the terms are unchanged from their 19th century usage.
The Clergy of the Church of England Database (CCEd) is a collaborative project to create a relational database documenting the careers of all Church of England clergymen between 1540 and 1835.