Local and family history - resources available

Local and family history resources, maps, electoral registers and much more.

Online resources - local history

Library and Resident Services subscribe to a wide range of online resources. A number of them are particularly useful for family and local history research:

Ancestry

Ancestry is an excellent web resource which can help you trace your family history by using, amongst other, English, Scottish and Welsh census records from 1841 to 1911, birth, marriage and death records and UK parish and probate records. (Available on library computers only).