Digital Library of Historical Directories, 1750-1919: Durham and Northumberland, 1801-1916
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<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><p>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.<br> 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.<br> 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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.<br> <br> <br> </p><br>This data collection includes the following directories:<br><br>- 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)<br><br>- 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)<br><br>- Ward's Northumberland and Durham Directory; containing Alnwick, Bambrough, Belford, Berwick, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Shields, South Shields, Sunderland, and their localities (1850)<br><br>- 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)<br><br>- The Durham Directory and Almanack (1854)<br><br>- 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)<br><br>- The Durham Directory and Almanack (1857)<br><br>- Post Office Directory of Northumberland and Durham (1858)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Suburbs (1886)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Durham (1890)<br><br>- 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)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Northumberland (1894)<br><br>- 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)<br><br>- 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)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Durham and Northumberland, 1914. [Durham only] (1914)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Northumberland (1914)<br><br>- 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)<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR>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.<br> <br>
本摘要版权归英国数据服务中心（UK Data Service）及数据集收藏版权方所有。 本项目旨在通过将大批量英格兰与威尔士地区的历史名录汇编上线，打造《历史名录数字图书馆（Digital Library of Historical Directories）》，以提升1750年至1919年间地方与商业名录的可及性。 该数字资源总计收录约600部名录，覆盖英格兰全部郡域及威尔士全境，时间跨度为1750年至1919年（截止时间选取受版权约束）。馆藏尤其侧重19世纪50年代、90年代以及20世纪10年代，上述三个年代的英格兰各郡均至少收录一部名录。 本批次名录的数字化流程分为两阶段：(1) 扫描实体馆藏原件以生成每页的图像文件；(2) 借助光学字符识别（Optical Character Recognition, OCR）软件处理上述图像，生成可机器读取的文本文件。 该资源的在线版本可通过莱斯特大学（University of Leicester）的官方网站获取，访问入口：<a href="http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4" target="_blank">历史名录数字图书馆在线资源</a>。 本数据集包含以下名录： - 1801年《纽卡斯尔、盖茨黑德及周边地区城镇与郡名录》：收录商人、银行家、经纪人、码头经营者与煤炭装配工的按字母排序名录，同时涵盖制造商、贸易商等群体；卷首附纽卡斯尔市的商业、名胜及公共建筑介绍（1801年版） - 1827年《达勒姆、诺森伯兰郡及特威德河畔纽卡斯尔、特威德河畔贝里克城镇与郡史、名录及地名辞典》（1827年版） - 1850年《沃德（Ward's）诺森伯兰与达勒姆名录》：涵盖阿尼克、班堡、贝里克、盖茨黑德、纽卡斯尔、北希尔兹、南希尔兹、桑德兰及周边区域（1850年版） - 1851年《哈格公司达勒姆郡名录》：收录郡内绅士、商人、制造商、专业从业者、贸易商等的按字母排序名录，并附各城镇、教区的历史、统计与地形描述（1851年版） - 1854年《达勒姆名录与年鉴》（1854年版） - 1855年《诺森伯兰史、地形与名录》：涵盖郡域总览、特威德河畔纽卡斯尔市历史，并附盖茨黑德与特威德河畔贝里克自治市镇的独立历史、统计与概况速写（1855年版） - 1857年《达勒姆名录与年鉴》（1857年版） - 1858年《诺森伯兰与达勒姆邮政名录》（1858年版） - 1886年《凯利（Kelly's）纽卡斯尔及郊区名录》（1886年版） - 1890年《凯利达勒姆名录》（1890年版） - 1890年《沃德（Ward's）纽卡斯尔及周边村庄名录》：附年鉴、城镇与郡指南及商业广告栏（1890年版） - 1894年《凯利诺森伯兰名录》（1894年版） - 1898年《沃德（Ward's）纽卡斯尔及周边村庄名录》：附年鉴、城镇与郡指南及商业广告栏（1898年版） - 1910年《沃德（Ward's）纽卡斯尔及拓展辖区名录》：新增辖区包括本韦尔村、南本韦尔、西本韦尔、新本韦尔、芬哈姆、斯考茨伍德、沃克及沃克盖特、沃尔斯恩德及周边村庄（1910年版） - 1914年《凯利达勒姆与诺森伯兰名录》（仅收录达勒姆郡部分，1914年版） - 1914年《凯利诺森伯兰名录》（1914年版） - 1916年《沃德（Ward's）纽卡斯尔及拓展辖区名录》：新增辖区包括本韦尔村、南本韦尔、西本韦尔、新本韦尔、芬哈姆、斯考茨伍德、沃克及沃克盖特、沃尔斯恩德及周边村庄（1916年版） <b>核心主题</b>： 本次收录的名录类型多样，涵盖行业名录、商业名录与私人居民名录，同时包含地名辞典、年鉴及官方资料等内容。为便于存入英国数据档案馆（UK Data Archive），本数据集按区域与时间维度划分为35个研究单元。
