Reading lists for assignments
Particularly useful books and articles are marked with *
Textbooks:
* W. T. R. Pryce, From Family History to Community History (Cambridge, 1994) -
scans available in 'useful reading' in teaching resources on studynet
Carol Kammen, On Doing Local History (London, 2014)
M. Williams, Researching Local History: the Human Journey (Abingdon, 2013)
* M. Drake and R. Finnegan, eds, Studying family and community history: 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 4 Sources and methods: a handbook (Cambridge, 1994) - scans available in 'useful reading' in teaching resources on studynet
Community history:
D. Mills, ‘Defining community: a critical review of ‘community’ in Family & Community History’, Family & Community History, Vol. 7 (2004), pp. 5-12.
B. Deacon and M. Donald, ‘In search of community history’, Family & Community History, Vol. 7 (2004), pp. 13-18.
Andrew Flinn, Mary Stevens and Elizabeth Shepherd, 'Whose Memories, Whose Archives: Independent Community Archives, Autonomy and the Mainsteam', Archival Science, vol 9 issue 1-2 (June 2009), 71-89: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-009-9105-2/fulltext.html
Andrew Flinn, ‘Community Histories, Community Archives: Some Opportunities and Challenges’, Journal of the Society of Archivists, vol. 28 issue 2 (2007), 151-176: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Flinn/publication/32895233_Community_histories_community_archives_some_opportunities_and_challenges/links/0046352759c8f1becc000000.pdf
M. Caswell, 'Seeing Yourself in History: Community Archives and the Fight Against Symbolic Annihilation', Public Historian, 36(4) (2014), 26-37
Andrew Flinn, 'Archival Activism: Independent and Community-Led Archives, Radical Public History and the Heritage Professionals', InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, vol 7 issue 2 (2011), https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pt2490x
Local history:
R. C. Richardson, ‘English local history and American local history: some comparisons’, in R.C. Richardson, ed., The changing face of
English local history (Aldershot, 2000).
* J. D. Marshall, The tyranny of the discrete: a discussion of the problems of local history in England (Aldershot, 1997)
* S. Magnusson, What is Microhistory? Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2013) - postscript available here - https://www.academia.edu/5205155/What_is_Microhistory_Theory_and_Practice
J.D. Marshall, ‘The study of local and regional ‘communities’: some problems and possibilities’, Northern History, Vol. 17 (1981), pp.
203-30.
J.D. Marshall, ‘Why study regions? (1)’, Journal of Regional and Local Studies, Vol. 5 (1985), pp. 15-27.
J.D. Marshall, ‘Why study regions? (2): some historical considerations’, Journal of Regional and Local Studies, Vol. 6 (1986), pp. 1-12
C. Phythian-Adams, Re-thinking English local history (Leicester, 1987).
C. Phythian-Adams, ‘Local history and national history: the quest for the peoples of England’, Rural History, Vol. 2 (1991), pp. 1-23.
C. Phythian-Adams, ‘Introduction: an agenda for English local history’, in C. Phythian-Adams, ed., Societies, cultures and kinship, 1580-1850 (Leicester, 1993).
Jonathan Healey, lecture, 'Why Local History Matters', University of Oxford, 2012, https://www.academia.edu/2550380/Why_Local_History_Matters
John Brewer, 'Microhistory and the histories of everyday life', CAS, 5 (2010) - http://www.cas.uni-muenchen.de/publikationen/e_series/cas-eseries_nr5.pdf
Studies of communities and parishes:
* K.D.M. Snell, Parish and belonging (Cambridge, 2006)
* B. Reay, Microhistories: demography, society and culture in rural England, 1800-1939 (Cambridge, 1996).
A. Shepard and P. Withinton (eds), Communities in early modern England (Manchester, 2000)
C. Phythian-Adams, ed., Societies, cultures and kinship, 1580-1850 (Leicester, 1993)
K. Wrightson and D. Levine, Poverty and piety in an English village: Terling, 1525-1700 (2nd edition, Oxford, 1995, 1st publ. 1979).
M. Spufford, Contrasting communities: English villagers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Cambridge, 1974).
H.J. Dyos, Victorian suburb: a study of the growth of Camberwell (Leicester, 1961)
Edward Muir, Microhistory and the lost peoples of Europe (Baltimore, 1991)
The census:
E. Higgs, ‘Women, occupations and work in the nineteenth century censuses’, History Workshop Journal, No. 23 (1987), pp. 59-80.
E. Higgs, ‘Occupational censuses and the agricultural workforce in Victorian England and Wales’, Economic History Review, Vol. 48 (1995).
* E. Higgs, A clearer sense of the census. The Victorian census and historical research (London, 1996).
A. Hill, ‘Women, work and the census: a problem for historians of women’, History Workshop Journal, No. 35 (1993), pp. 78-94.
A. Hinde, ‘The use of nineteenth-century census data to investigate local migration’, Local Population Studies, No. 73 (Autumn, 2004), pp.8-28
N. Goose, Population, economy and family structure in Hertfordshire in 1851. Vol. 1 The Berkhamsted region (Hatfield, 1996).
N. Goose, Population, economy and family structure in Hertfordshire in 1851. Vol. 2 St Albans and its region (Hatfield, 2000)
D. Mills and K. Schürer, eds, Local communities in the Victorian census enumerators’ books
A. Hinde, ‘The components of population change’, Local Population Studies, No. 76 (Spring, 2006), pp. 90-5
W.D. Adair, ‘Can we trust the census reports? Lessons from a study of domestic servants in Tenbury, Worcestershire, 1851 and 1861’, Family & Community History, Vol. 5 (2002), pp. 99-110.
M. Anderson, ‘What can the mid-Victorian censuses tell us about variations in married women’s employment?’, Local Population Studies, No. 62 (Spring, 1999), pp. 9-30
Historical studies using the census:
N. Goose, ed., Women’s work in industrial Britain: regional and local perspectives (Hatfield, 2007)
M. Anderson, Family structure in nineteenth century Lancashire (Cambridge, 1971)
N. Goose, ‘How saucy did it make the poor? The straw plait and hat trades, illegitimate fertility and the family in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire’, History, Vol. 91: 3, No. 303 (2006), pp. 530-56.
C.A. Crompton, ‘Changes in rural service occupations during thenineteenth century: an evaluation of two sources for Hertfordshire, England’, Rural History, Vol. 6 (1995)
M. Dupree, Family structure in the Staffordshire potteries 1840-1880 (Oxford, 1995).
A. Gritt, ‘The census and the servant: a reassessment of the decline and distribution of farm service in early nineteenth-century England, Economic History Review, Vol. 53 (2000), pp. 84-106
K. Schürer, ‘Surnames and the search for regions’, Local Population Studies, No. 72 (Spring, 2004), pp. 50-76
N.L. Tranter, ‘The social structure of a Bedfordshire parish in the mid-nineteenth century. The Cardington census enumerators’ books, 1851’, International Review of Social History, Vol. 18 (1973), pp. 90-106
Family History as a discipline:
Wendy Bottero, ‘Who Do You Think They Were? How Family Historians Make Sense of Social Position and Inequality in the Past’, British Journal of Sociology 63:1 (2012), 54-74
Wendy Bottero, 'Practising family history: ‘identity’ as a category of social practice', British Journal of Sociology, July 2015
Anne-Marie Kramer, ‘Kinship, Affinity and Connectedness: Exploring the Role of Geneaology in Personal Lives’, Sociology: Journal of the British Sociological Association, 45:3 (2011), 359-95.
Anne-Marie Kramer, 'Mediatizing memory: history, affect and identity in "Who Do You Think You Are?", European Journal of of Cultural Studies. 14(4), (2011) 428 - 445
Migration and emigration:
C. Pooley and J. Turnbull, Migration and mobility in Britain since the 18th century
P.M. Solar and M.T. Smith, ‘Background migration: the Irish (and other strangers) in mid-Victorian Hertfordshire’, Local Population Studies, No. 82 (2009), pp. 44-62
A. Hinde, ‘The use of nineteenth century census data to investigate local migration’, Local Population Studies, No. 73 (2004), pp. 8-28
Robin Haines and Ralph Shlomowitz, „Causes of death of British emigrants on voyages to South Australia, 1848-1885‟, Journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, Vol. 16, 2 (2003), pp. 193-208
Robert Hughes, The fatal shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 (London, 1987)
Dudley Baines, Migration in a mature economy : emigration and internal migration in England and Wales 1861-1900 (Cambridge, 1985).
E. Richards, Britannia’s children (Hambledon: London, 2004).
Robin Haines, „Indigent misfits or shrewd operators? Government-assisted emigrants from the UK to Australia, 1831-1860‟, Population Studies, Vol. 48 (1994), pp. 223-47.
Robin Haines, Margrette Kleinig, Deborah Oxley and Eric Richards, „Migration and opportunity: an antipodean perspective‟, International Review of Social History, Vol. 43: 2 (1998), pp. 235-63.
Gary Howells, „“On account of their disreputable characters”: parish-assisted emigration from rural England, 1834-1860‟, History, Vol. 88, 292 (2003), pp. 587-605
Elspeth Johnson, „The role of the family in the decision to emigrate: evidence from a case study of Scottish emigration to Queensland‟, Family & Community History, Vol. 9.1 (2006), pp. 5-25.
T.J. Hatton & J.G. Williamson, „After the Famine: Emigration from Ireland, 1850-1913‟, Journal of Economic History, Vol. 53, 3 (1993), pp. 575-600
Maurice J. Bric, „Patterns of Irish Emigration to America, 1783-1800‟, Eire-Ireland: Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 36 (2001), pp. 10-28.
Ruth-Ann Harris, „“Come you all courageously”: Irish women in America write home‟, Eire-Ireland: Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 36 (2001), pp. 166-88.
Angela McCarthy, Irish migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937 ’the desired haven’ (2005)
Margaret Mulrooney, Fleeing the Famine: North America and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851 (2003)
Immigrant and immigrant-heritage communities:
Gemma Romain, Connecting Histories: a Comparative Exploration of Afro-Caribbean and Jewish History and Memory in Modern Britain (Routledge, London, 2006)
Stephen Bourne, Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War (The History Press, London, 2013) - see his podcast - http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/black-poppies-britains-black-community-great-war/
Panikos Panayi, An Immigration History of Britain: Multicultural Racism since 1800 (Routledge, Abingdon, 2014)
Kathy Burrell and Panikos Panayi, eds., Histories and Memories: Migrants and their History in Britain (London, 2006)
Rozina Visram, Asians in Britain: 400 years of history (London, 2002)
Sarah Hackett, 'The Asian of the North: Immigrant experiences and the importance of regional identity in Newcastle upon Tyne during the 1980s', Northern History, 46: 2 (2009)
The Poor laws
S. King, Poverty and welfare in England 1700-1850: a regional perspective.
W. Apfel and P. Dunkley, ‘English rural society and the new poor law: Bedfordshire 1834-47’, Social History, Vol. 10 (1985), pp. 41-69.
S. Williams, ‘Earnings, poor relief and the economy of makeshifts: Bedfordshire in the early years of the New Poor Law’, Rural History, Vol. 16 (2005), pp. 21-52.
S. King and A. Tomkins (eds), The poor in England 1700-1850: an economy of makeshifts
N. Goose, ‘Workhouse populations in the mid-nineteenth century: the case of Hertfordshire’, Local Population Studies, No. 62 (Spring, 1999), pp. 52-69.
N. Goose, ‘Poverty, old age and gender in nineteenth-century England: the case of Hertfordshire’, Continuity and Change, Vol. 20 (2005), pp.1-34
Samantha Shave, 'The Dependent Poor? (Re)constructing The Lives of Individuals ‘On the Parish’ in Rural Dorset, 1800–1832', Rural History, 20:1 (2009)
K.D.M. Snell, Annals of the labouring poor: social change and agrarian England 1660-1900
Textbooks:
* W. T. R. Pryce, From Family History to Community History (Cambridge, 1994) -
scans available in 'useful reading' in teaching resources on studynet
Carol Kammen, On Doing Local History (London, 2014)
M. Williams, Researching Local History: the Human Journey (Abingdon, 2013)
* M. Drake and R. Finnegan, eds, Studying family and community history: 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 4 Sources and methods: a handbook (Cambridge, 1994) - scans available in 'useful reading' in teaching resources on studynet
Community history:
D. Mills, ‘Defining community: a critical review of ‘community’ in Family & Community History’, Family & Community History, Vol. 7 (2004), pp. 5-12.
B. Deacon and M. Donald, ‘In search of community history’, Family & Community History, Vol. 7 (2004), pp. 13-18.
Andrew Flinn, Mary Stevens and Elizabeth Shepherd, 'Whose Memories, Whose Archives: Independent Community Archives, Autonomy and the Mainsteam', Archival Science, vol 9 issue 1-2 (June 2009), 71-89: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-009-9105-2/fulltext.html
Andrew Flinn, ‘Community Histories, Community Archives: Some Opportunities and Challenges’, Journal of the Society of Archivists, vol. 28 issue 2 (2007), 151-176: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Flinn/publication/32895233_Community_histories_community_archives_some_opportunities_and_challenges/links/0046352759c8f1becc000000.pdf
M. Caswell, 'Seeing Yourself in History: Community Archives and the Fight Against Symbolic Annihilation', Public Historian, 36(4) (2014), 26-37
Andrew Flinn, 'Archival Activism: Independent and Community-Led Archives, Radical Public History and the Heritage Professionals', InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, vol 7 issue 2 (2011), https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pt2490x
Local history:
R. C. Richardson, ‘English local history and American local history: some comparisons’, in R.C. Richardson, ed., The changing face of
English local history (Aldershot, 2000).
* J. D. Marshall, The tyranny of the discrete: a discussion of the problems of local history in England (Aldershot, 1997)
* S. Magnusson, What is Microhistory? Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2013) - postscript available here - https://www.academia.edu/5205155/What_is_Microhistory_Theory_and_Practice
J.D. Marshall, ‘The study of local and regional ‘communities’: some problems and possibilities’, Northern History, Vol. 17 (1981), pp.
203-30.
J.D. Marshall, ‘Why study regions? (1)’, Journal of Regional and Local Studies, Vol. 5 (1985), pp. 15-27.
J.D. Marshall, ‘Why study regions? (2): some historical considerations’, Journal of Regional and Local Studies, Vol. 6 (1986), pp. 1-12
C. Phythian-Adams, Re-thinking English local history (Leicester, 1987).
C. Phythian-Adams, ‘Local history and national history: the quest for the peoples of England’, Rural History, Vol. 2 (1991), pp. 1-23.
C. Phythian-Adams, ‘Introduction: an agenda for English local history’, in C. Phythian-Adams, ed., Societies, cultures and kinship, 1580-1850 (Leicester, 1993).
Jonathan Healey, lecture, 'Why Local History Matters', University of Oxford, 2012, https://www.academia.edu/2550380/Why_Local_History_Matters
John Brewer, 'Microhistory and the histories of everyday life', CAS, 5 (2010) - http://www.cas.uni-muenchen.de/publikationen/e_series/cas-eseries_nr5.pdf
Studies of communities and parishes:
* K.D.M. Snell, Parish and belonging (Cambridge, 2006)
* B. Reay, Microhistories: demography, society and culture in rural England, 1800-1939 (Cambridge, 1996).
A. Shepard and P. Withinton (eds), Communities in early modern England (Manchester, 2000)
C. Phythian-Adams, ed., Societies, cultures and kinship, 1580-1850 (Leicester, 1993)
K. Wrightson and D. Levine, Poverty and piety in an English village: Terling, 1525-1700 (2nd edition, Oxford, 1995, 1st publ. 1979).
M. Spufford, Contrasting communities: English villagers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Cambridge, 1974).
H.J. Dyos, Victorian suburb: a study of the growth of Camberwell (Leicester, 1961)
Edward Muir, Microhistory and the lost peoples of Europe (Baltimore, 1991)
The census:
E. Higgs, ‘Women, occupations and work in the nineteenth century censuses’, History Workshop Journal, No. 23 (1987), pp. 59-80.
E. Higgs, ‘Occupational censuses and the agricultural workforce in Victorian England and Wales’, Economic History Review, Vol. 48 (1995).
* E. Higgs, A clearer sense of the census. The Victorian census and historical research (London, 1996).
A. Hill, ‘Women, work and the census: a problem for historians of women’, History Workshop Journal, No. 35 (1993), pp. 78-94.
A. Hinde, ‘The use of nineteenth-century census data to investigate local migration’, Local Population Studies, No. 73 (Autumn, 2004), pp.8-28
N. Goose, Population, economy and family structure in Hertfordshire in 1851. Vol. 1 The Berkhamsted region (Hatfield, 1996).
N. Goose, Population, economy and family structure in Hertfordshire in 1851. Vol. 2 St Albans and its region (Hatfield, 2000)
D. Mills and K. Schürer, eds, Local communities in the Victorian census enumerators’ books
A. Hinde, ‘The components of population change’, Local Population Studies, No. 76 (Spring, 2006), pp. 90-5
W.D. Adair, ‘Can we trust the census reports? Lessons from a study of domestic servants in Tenbury, Worcestershire, 1851 and 1861’, Family & Community History, Vol. 5 (2002), pp. 99-110.
M. Anderson, ‘What can the mid-Victorian censuses tell us about variations in married women’s employment?’, Local Population Studies, No. 62 (Spring, 1999), pp. 9-30
Historical studies using the census:
N. Goose, ed., Women’s work in industrial Britain: regional and local perspectives (Hatfield, 2007)
M. Anderson, Family structure in nineteenth century Lancashire (Cambridge, 1971)
N. Goose, ‘How saucy did it make the poor? The straw plait and hat trades, illegitimate fertility and the family in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire’, History, Vol. 91: 3, No. 303 (2006), pp. 530-56.
C.A. Crompton, ‘Changes in rural service occupations during thenineteenth century: an evaluation of two sources for Hertfordshire, England’, Rural History, Vol. 6 (1995)
M. Dupree, Family structure in the Staffordshire potteries 1840-1880 (Oxford, 1995).
A. Gritt, ‘The census and the servant: a reassessment of the decline and distribution of farm service in early nineteenth-century England, Economic History Review, Vol. 53 (2000), pp. 84-106
K. Schürer, ‘Surnames and the search for regions’, Local Population Studies, No. 72 (Spring, 2004), pp. 50-76
N.L. Tranter, ‘The social structure of a Bedfordshire parish in the mid-nineteenth century. The Cardington census enumerators’ books, 1851’, International Review of Social History, Vol. 18 (1973), pp. 90-106
Family History as a discipline:
Wendy Bottero, ‘Who Do You Think They Were? How Family Historians Make Sense of Social Position and Inequality in the Past’, British Journal of Sociology 63:1 (2012), 54-74
Wendy Bottero, 'Practising family history: ‘identity’ as a category of social practice', British Journal of Sociology, July 2015
Anne-Marie Kramer, ‘Kinship, Affinity and Connectedness: Exploring the Role of Geneaology in Personal Lives’, Sociology: Journal of the British Sociological Association, 45:3 (2011), 359-95.
Anne-Marie Kramer, 'Mediatizing memory: history, affect and identity in "Who Do You Think You Are?", European Journal of of Cultural Studies. 14(4), (2011) 428 - 445
Migration and emigration:
C. Pooley and J. Turnbull, Migration and mobility in Britain since the 18th century
P.M. Solar and M.T. Smith, ‘Background migration: the Irish (and other strangers) in mid-Victorian Hertfordshire’, Local Population Studies, No. 82 (2009), pp. 44-62
A. Hinde, ‘The use of nineteenth century census data to investigate local migration’, Local Population Studies, No. 73 (2004), pp. 8-28
Robin Haines and Ralph Shlomowitz, „Causes of death of British emigrants on voyages to South Australia, 1848-1885‟, Journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, Vol. 16, 2 (2003), pp. 193-208
Robert Hughes, The fatal shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 (London, 1987)
Dudley Baines, Migration in a mature economy : emigration and internal migration in England and Wales 1861-1900 (Cambridge, 1985).
E. Richards, Britannia’s children (Hambledon: London, 2004).
Robin Haines, „Indigent misfits or shrewd operators? Government-assisted emigrants from the UK to Australia, 1831-1860‟, Population Studies, Vol. 48 (1994), pp. 223-47.
Robin Haines, Margrette Kleinig, Deborah Oxley and Eric Richards, „Migration and opportunity: an antipodean perspective‟, International Review of Social History, Vol. 43: 2 (1998), pp. 235-63.
Gary Howells, „“On account of their disreputable characters”: parish-assisted emigration from rural England, 1834-1860‟, History, Vol. 88, 292 (2003), pp. 587-605
Elspeth Johnson, „The role of the family in the decision to emigrate: evidence from a case study of Scottish emigration to Queensland‟, Family & Community History, Vol. 9.1 (2006), pp. 5-25.
T.J. Hatton & J.G. Williamson, „After the Famine: Emigration from Ireland, 1850-1913‟, Journal of Economic History, Vol. 53, 3 (1993), pp. 575-600
Maurice J. Bric, „Patterns of Irish Emigration to America, 1783-1800‟, Eire-Ireland: Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 36 (2001), pp. 10-28.
Ruth-Ann Harris, „“Come you all courageously”: Irish women in America write home‟, Eire-Ireland: Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 36 (2001), pp. 166-88.
Angela McCarthy, Irish migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937 ’the desired haven’ (2005)
Margaret Mulrooney, Fleeing the Famine: North America and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851 (2003)
Immigrant and immigrant-heritage communities:
Gemma Romain, Connecting Histories: a Comparative Exploration of Afro-Caribbean and Jewish History and Memory in Modern Britain (Routledge, London, 2006)
Stephen Bourne, Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War (The History Press, London, 2013) - see his podcast - http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/black-poppies-britains-black-community-great-war/
Panikos Panayi, An Immigration History of Britain: Multicultural Racism since 1800 (Routledge, Abingdon, 2014)
Kathy Burrell and Panikos Panayi, eds., Histories and Memories: Migrants and their History in Britain (London, 2006)
Rozina Visram, Asians in Britain: 400 years of history (London, 2002)
Sarah Hackett, 'The Asian of the North: Immigrant experiences and the importance of regional identity in Newcastle upon Tyne during the 1980s', Northern History, 46: 2 (2009)
The Poor laws
S. King, Poverty and welfare in England 1700-1850: a regional perspective.
W. Apfel and P. Dunkley, ‘English rural society and the new poor law: Bedfordshire 1834-47’, Social History, Vol. 10 (1985), pp. 41-69.
S. Williams, ‘Earnings, poor relief and the economy of makeshifts: Bedfordshire in the early years of the New Poor Law’, Rural History, Vol. 16 (2005), pp. 21-52.
S. King and A. Tomkins (eds), The poor in England 1700-1850: an economy of makeshifts
N. Goose, ‘Workhouse populations in the mid-nineteenth century: the case of Hertfordshire’, Local Population Studies, No. 62 (Spring, 1999), pp. 52-69.
N. Goose, ‘Poverty, old age and gender in nineteenth-century England: the case of Hertfordshire’, Continuity and Change, Vol. 20 (2005), pp.1-34
Samantha Shave, 'The Dependent Poor? (Re)constructing The Lives of Individuals ‘On the Parish’ in Rural Dorset, 1800–1832', Rural History, 20:1 (2009)
K.D.M. Snell, Annals of the labouring poor: social change and agrarian England 1660-1900
useful websites:
Hertfordshire Family History Society - http://www.hertsfhs.org.uk/
Family and Community History Society - http://www.fachrs.com/
Information on HALS - http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/leisculture/heritage1/hals/famhist/
Hertfordshire names online - https://www.hertsdirect.org/ufs/ufsmain?ebz=1_1440520145330&ebd=0
Australia passenger lists, http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/Scripts/PassengerSearch.asp
America passenger lists, https://familysearch.org/us-immigration-naturalization/
Army, migration and prison records, The National Archives, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/army.htm,
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/migration.htm
Workhouses history (a bit amateurish in presentation, but well researched and illustrated - http://www.workhouses.org.uk/
Museum of London collections - http://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/collections/
Massive list of UK Oral History projects - https://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/emoha/arounduk.html
Hertfordshire Family History Society - http://www.hertsfhs.org.uk/
Family and Community History Society - http://www.fachrs.com/
Information on HALS - http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/leisculture/heritage1/hals/famhist/
Hertfordshire names online - https://www.hertsdirect.org/ufs/ufsmain?ebz=1_1440520145330&ebd=0
Australia passenger lists, http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/Scripts/PassengerSearch.asp
America passenger lists, https://familysearch.org/us-immigration-naturalization/
Army, migration and prison records, The National Archives, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/army.htm,
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/migration.htm
Workhouses history (a bit amateurish in presentation, but well researched and illustrated - http://www.workhouses.org.uk/
Museum of London collections - http://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/collections/
Massive list of UK Oral History projects - https://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/emoha/arounduk.html