Library Guides: Using Microforms: British and Irish history

British and Irish History (Selected resources)

1851 census: a national sample of the enumerators’ returns
Provides census information on over 400,000 individuals including names, addresses, ages, relationships and occupations. Entries for each household are arranged by town, village or locality and a topographical index.
Abolition and Emancipation
Library has: Pts 2-3.
Atlantic slave trade and slavery collections from the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
Ancient correspondence, 1175-1538: Pro Class SC1
Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in microfiche facsimile
Guide: UniM Bail MIC 015.31 ANGL
Anti-socialist organisations in Britain, 1870-1914
Library has: Part 1 Anti-Socialist Journals 1874-1914.
Contents listed on reels.
Aristocracy, the state and the local community: The Hastings Collection from the Huntington Library, San Marino, California
1477-1828. Hastings Family was actively involved in central political issues as well as local issues in their tole as Lords Lieutenant. Correspondents include monarchs, politicians, churchmen, public figures as well as estate agents, tenants and friends of the family.
Aristocracy, the state and the local community: The Hastings Collection from the Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Correspondence from 1477-1828. The Hastings Family was actively involved in central political issues as well as local issues in their tole as Lords Lieutenant. Correspondents include monarchs, politicians, churchmen, public figures as well as estate agents, tenants and friends of the family.
Books and manuscripts of John Dee, 1527-1608
British 19th century riots and disturbances: Home Office, correspondence and papers, disturbances 1812-1855
Mostly on Luddism and Parliamentary Reform.
British biographical archive: A one-alphabet cumulation of 324 of the most important English language biographical reference works originally published between 1601 and 1929
Guide: UniM Bail MIC 920.041 BRIT
British in Ireland
These files are from the records held in Dublin Castle for the years 1872-1926. This period witnessed the rise of Parnell, the Land War in 1880 and the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1921.
British labour history ephemera
The collection contains pamphlets, journals, monographs and cartoons. Covering the period 1880 - 1926. Topics include socialism, trade unionism, the Labour Party, unemployment, housing, economic and social conditions, World War I, suffrage.
Guide available: MIC 016.33180941 BRIT
British political and social cartoons, 1655-1832
Material from the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress which are not in the published catalogues of the British Museum.
Census of Ireland 1813-1911
From the Central Statistics Office. Chiefly tables.
Chronicles and documents of medieval England, c.1150 - c.1500: From Cambridge University Library
CND archives (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
Covers 1958-1985
Elizabethan Ireland and the settlement of Ulster: The Carew papers at Lambeth Palace Library.
Guide: Bail MIC 941.505 ELIZ
English cartoons and satirical prints in the British Museum
Guide: UniM Bail MIC 016.769942 BRIT
Episcopal registers, 1215-1650
George III, correspondence, 1782-1820
Harleian manuscripts
Tudor and Stuart manuscripts from the Harleian Collection in the British Library.
Index and full catalogue in beginning reels.

London bills of mortality
Covers 1700-1829.
Newcastle papers: From the British Library, London
Contents listed at the beginning of reel 1.
Nineteenth Century Books on Ireland
Over 300 rare monographs and pamphlets published in the nineteenth century. Subjects covered include : the Union, home rule, famine, emigration, regeneration of agriculture and industry, sectarian movements, Catholic empancipation, land reform, ethnology of the Celts.
Papers of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, 1593-1641, from Sheffield City Libraries
Parliamentary history
Manuscript minutes, committee books and voting records of the House of Lords, 1620-c1714, and the Braye manuscripts from the House of Lords Record Office.
Guide: UniM Bail MIC 328.4109 PARL
People’s history: Working class autobiographies. Series one, working class autobiographies from the British Library, London
Covers 1792-1920.
Property and privilege in medieval and early modern England and Wales: cartularies and other registers
Public records of Ireland: Armagh register 1361-1528
Radicalism, anti-radicalism and reform in England, 1769-1861
Records 1791-1834. Corporation of London Records Office
Records relating to transportation of convicts to Australia.
Records of a Scottish village: Lasswade, 1650-1750
Records of an English village: Earls Colne, 1400-1750
Rewards, pardons and secret service, 1820-1840
The material relates to the offer of pardons and rewards in exchange for information leading to the arrest of criminals and troublemakers.
Shakespeariana
Shakespeare’s editors, prose fiction of Shakespeare’s time, adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays from 1660-1980, folklore and superstition in Shakespeare’s time.
Social and political status of women in Britain. Series one: Rare political, reforming and professional journals for and by women (1858-1935)
Issues include education, work, religion, temperance and social reform. The impact of World War I on women’s lives is also highlighted.
Social history of property and possessions. Part 1, Inventories and wills including Renaissance library catalogues, from the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1436-1814
Star Chamber and English society in the reign of James I
Tanner manuscripts
Church, state and politics in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. Selected volumes from the Tanner Collection at the Bodleian Library.
Unpublished state papers of the English Civil War and interregnum
Work of the parliamentary committees, parliamentary surveys of the Crown property made prior to its sale, particulars for the sale of the estate of Charles I, particulars for the sale of fee-farm rents, documents relating to various parliamentary accounts and to ecclesiastical affairs.