Biography Database 1680-1830
Summary of Contents
CD-ROM 1, CD-ROM 2, CD-ROM 3, CD-ROM 4, CD-ROM 5 
CD-ROM 1
Directories - National
Bailey's Northern Directory 1781
Directories - Local
Bilston 1770, 1780, 1781
Birmingham 1767, 1770, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1780, 1781, 1785, 1787, 1788, 1791, 1797, 1798
Boston 1789, 1796, 1798
Brighton 1799, 1800
Bristol 1775, 1793
Dudley 1770, 1780, 1781
Hampshire 1784
Leeds 1797, 1798, 1800
Leicester 1794
Newcastle upon Tyne 1778, 1782, 1787, 1790, 1795, 1801, 1811, 1824
London 1674, 1738, 1740 (2), 1741, 1744 1745, 1749, 1752, 1753, 1755, 1758, 1759, 1760 (2), 1761, 1763 (3), 1765 (2), 1767 (2), 1768 (2), 1769 (2), 1770 (2), 1771, 1772 (2), 1774 (3), 1775 (3), 1776 (2), 1777 (4), 1778, 1779 (3), 1780 (2), 1781, 1783.
St Helena 1830
Sheffield 1774, 1787, 1797
Walsall 1770, 1780, 1781
Willenhall 1770, 1780, 1781
Wolverhampton 1770, 1780, 1781
Trade
A Musical Directory for the year 1794 by Joseph Doane
Book Subscription Lists
1,487 lists have been filed. The great majority have a London imprint, often with a provincial imprint which represents the real area of support. Provincial imprints include: Dublin (157), Oxford (101), Cambridge (50), Edinburgh (38), Newcastle (35), York (26), Bath (22), Glasgow (19), Birmingham (17), Bristol (17).
There are also over 140 towns with less than 15 imprints.
The general subject of each book has been added to the index and include: biography (62), classics (35), commerce (46), drama (27), fine arts (34), general literature (86), history (258 books), law (28), music (109), novels (37), philosophy (26), poetry (160), religion (181), science/technology (137), topography (90), and many others.
Journals
The births, deaths, marriages, promotions, b-nkr-ts and c-rts m-rt-l of the Gentleman's Magazine for the years 1731-1750 inclusive.
Society Lists
The membership of the Royal Society to 1815.
The membership of the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle 1793-1830.
Special Collections
Trevor Hearl's collections of biographical data from St Helena .
Michael Turner's apprenticeship lists from the Stationers' Company , 1701-1800.
CD-ROM 2
Directories - National
Bailey's British Directory, 1784, vol.1 London, vol.2 Western, vol.3 Northern, vol.4 Eastern. 1785, vol.1
Directories - United Kingdom
Birmingham 1775 (Swinney), 1792 (Birmingham section of the Universal British Directory), 1798, [1792], 1800 (Bisset), 1800 (Chapman), 1801 (Chapman).
Bristol 1785, 1787, 1792, 1795, 1797, 1798, 1799.
Dover and Deal 1792.
Edinburgh 1774, 1776.
Glasgow 1783, 1787, 1789, 1791.
Liverpool 1766, 1774.
London: Kent's 1780, 1781, 1782, 1785, 1786, 1788, 1789, 1791, Lowndes's 1781, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, Bailey's 1790, Andrews's 1789, 1790, Wakefield's 1790.
Manchester 1772, 1773.
Directories - United States
Albany 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816,1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830.
Boston 1780 (Assessors' Taking Books), 1800, 1803, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1809, 1810, 1813, 1816, 1818, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1829, 1830.
Brooklyn 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830.
Subscription Lists
241 lists from 1705 to 1833, with a concentration on the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Periodicals
The births, deaths, marriages, promotions, b-nkr-ts and c-rts m-rt-l notices of the Gentleman's Magazine 1751-1770 inclusive.
Societies
Boston [Mass.] Anthology Society
Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth
Transactions of the Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth , 1827
Royal Society of London, members 1816-1860
Society of Antiquaries of London, members 1717-1796
Society for Constitutional Information, Tracts, London, 1783
Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture, London, [1791]
Society of Cymmrodorion in London , Lonson 1777
Sussex Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Manufactures, Lewes, 1772.
CD-ROM 3
Scottish Directories
Aberdeen 1824, 1825, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830
Angus 1829, 1830
Ayr 1830
Dundee 1782, 1809, 1818, 1822, 1824, 1829
Edinburgh 1774, 1776, 1778, 1780, 1782, 1794, 1797, 1800, 1801, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1824 [diff.ed.], 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830.
Glasgow 1801, 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830.
Greenock 1815, 1820, 1828.
Paisley 1810, 1812, 1820, 1823, 1827, 1828.
Renfrewshire 1829, 1830.
National directories with Scottish listings: Holden 1809-1811; Pigot 1820, 1825. Circulation of North British Commercial Advertiser 1827.
Scottish book subscription lists to 1800.
Welsh Directories
Aberystwyth 1816
Cardiff 1796, 1813, 1829
Swansea 1802, 1830
Welsh book subscription lists
ALL known lists to 1830. Catalogued by Eiluned Rees in Journal of the WElsh Bibliographical Society XI nos 1-2 (1973-74).
United States Directories
Baltimore 1752, 1796, 1799, 1800-01, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1807, 1808, 1810, 1812, 1814-15, 1816, 1817, 1819, 1829
Boston 1826, 1827, 1828
Charleston 1782, 1785, 1790, 1794, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1806, 1807, 1809, 1813, 1816, 1819, 1822, 1824, 1828.
Other Directories
London 1790
Cheltenham 1800
Gorleston 1828
Whitehaven 1762 [A MS local census]
Society Membership Lists
Society of Arts 1772, 1783-1800 (19 annual lists)
CD-ROM 4
Publication abandoned.
CD-ROM 5
Publication abandoned.
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