Title of dataset
1 A New Bibliography of Bristol
2 Matthew's Commercial Directory of Bristol
3 Reed's Commercial Directory of Bristol
4 Bristol Obituaries, 1871-1921
5 Bristol Poll Book, 1722
6 Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers to 1972
Cost: all at L3.00 sterling.
Platform/environment/specification: PC; Windows 3.1; 386 or higher with (1.5 Mb
free hard disk and at least 4 Mb RAM if you take the option of a read-only
version of Idealist, which runs in Windows 3.1 -- I'm not sure if the BHDP
sells this runtime read-only version).
Format: either Idealist for Windows or ascii (to import into other rdbms).
Contact:
Snail mail:
Bristol Historical Databases Project,
Faculty of Humanities,
University of the West of England,
St Matthias Campus,
Oldbury Court Road,
Fishponds,
Bristol,
BS16 2JP,
England.
E-mail:
mge-wool@uwe.ac.uk OR s-jordan@uwe.ac.uk OR p-wardle@uwe.ac.uk
Projects in hand include: Property survey of Bristol, 1837; Voluntary
Contribution of Bristol, 1798; and the Bristol Social Survey of 1937.
Dave Postles,
pot@le.ac.uk
[but I only know what I have just read, so please don't query me]