The History of the North West Web Resources

Guides to Regional History Archives

• Access to Archives Project to provide an online catalogue of English record offices' archives.
• Archives in London and the M25 Area (Aim25).
• Past Finder - a guide to archive holdings in Greater Manchester.
• Newsplan North West

North West England

County Record Offices

• Lancashire Record Office (Preston).
• Cumbria Archive Service (Carlisle, Kendal, Barrow, Whitehaven).
• Cheshire Record Office (Chester).
• The Greater Manchester Record Office
• Liverpool and Merseyside Record Office
• West Yorkshire Archive Service

Archives and Libraries

• North West Regional Archives Council, which incorporates a guide to archives in the North West
• Museums, Libraries and Archives North West
• Lancashire County Library Catalogue - a union catalogue of Lancashire libraries.
• Cumbria Libraries - a union catalogue like the former.

Major Collections

• Manchester Archives and Local Studies (Manchester Central Library).
• North West Film Archive (Manchester).
• Working Class Movement Library (Salford).
• People's History Museum (Manchester).

Sources

• Cumbrian Manorial Records
• Spinning the Web - Textile History of North-West.
• Mersey Gateway - Merseyside History.
• Cotton Town - an excellent source for the history of Blackburn and Darwen.
• Old Maps of Lancashire - online county maps.
• Old Maps of Lancaster - images of maps held at Lancaster University.
• Pictorial History of Lancashire (1844) - a scanned transcription of 'The Pictorial History of the County of the County of Lancaster' published by George Routledge (text only).
• Online Parish Clerks for the County of Lancashire
• Mining History Network
• Methodist Archives (John Ryland's Library, Manchester)
• National Cooperative Archive
• Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project - a database of holdings in Yorkshire.

Organisations

• Centre for North West Regional Studies (Lancaster)
• Ruskin Library (Lancaster)
• Lancaster Archaeological and Historical Society
• Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society
• Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society
• Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

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