Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester/Sources
Hello and welcome to the sources list for the Greater Manchester WikiProject. If you believe you have a helpful reliable source that can help the project, then this is the place to share it! Please simply paste this section of code:
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| A select gazetteer of local government areas, Greater Manchester County | A detailed gazetteer of townships, Urban districts and boroughs that today form Greater Manchester. | *Governance *Geography | Suitable for settlement type articles, and as a source about local government history and local government boundary changes. |
| A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 | Detailed local histories of most of Greater Manchester, as well as parts of Liverpool. | *History | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality source full of detailed facts and commentaries. |
| Historical and Genealogical Information for the Region Anciently Known as the Salford Hundred | This site exhibits information about the Salford Hundred, its townships, their history and related genealogical information. All of which is supported by a chronological list of events for the region. | *History *Geography | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. Has some maps, etymologies and historical commentary. |
| GMroads.co.uk | History of Greater Manchester's roads, from City of Manchester Plan 1945 - to the Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan 2. | *Transport | Suitable for material about transport infrastructure and history in Greater Manchester. |
| GMBuses.co.uk | Official site of GM Buses, including history and gallery. | *Transport | Suitable for material about transport infrastructure and history in Greater Manchester. |
| A Vision of Britain Through Time | A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions. | *History *Governance *Geography *Demography | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality secondary source full of detailed facts and commentaries. Particularly useful for historic districts and their population. |
| Neighbourhood Statistics | This site allows you to find detailed contemporary statistics within specific geographic areas, for example within a civil parish, or postcode area. | *Demography *Economy | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality primary source with in-depth analysis of data. |
| A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) | Contains detailed historic topographical accounts of places, parishes and counties in England. Originally published in 1848 in four volumes, here given together digitally. | *History *Geography *Geology | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality, historic primary source. |
| visitmanchester.com | The official tourism website for Greater Manchester. | *Economy *Tourism *Culture | Suitable as a source about landmarks, places of interest and elements of the economic activity of Greater Manchester. |
| The SELNEC Preservation Society | Website principally involved with the cataloging and preservation of public passenger buses from the Greater Manchester area from 1968. | *Transport | Suitable only as a tertiary source for material about transport infrastructure and history in Greater Manchester. |
| Geograph.org.uk | The Geograph British Isles project is an open source collection of geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of the British Isles. Contains images of Greater Manchester available for use on articles under the Creative Commons licence. | *Photographs | Suitable for all articles related to the project. |
| The Manchester Geographical Society | Resources concerning local geography such as fieldwork guides, physical geography, transport geography, historical geography, canals etc. Also sells early copies of "The North West Geographer" journal and has later copies available for free download | *Geography | Suitable as source for a wide range of geographical material such as physical geography, transport history, use of urban space, impact of urbanisation etc. |
| A Key to English Place Names | A searchable index of place-names, their origin and possible meaning. | *Toponymy | Suitable as a source that offers suggestions what place names may mean for a given number of places. |
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | Authoritative biographies of important historical figures | *Notable residents | Used to be a subscription only site, but almost all of the GM boroughs now seem to have joined, so all you have to do is to enter your local library card number. |
| Greater Manchester Lieutenancy Office) | Website of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester. | *History *Governance *Culture. | Predominantly about the ceremonial post and its duties, but also some history and coverage about Greater Manchester as a whole. |
| Manchester City Council 24 hour library | Contains a good range of very useful sources including the Oxford English Dictionary, 200 years of archives of The Times, Encyclopædia Britannica material, British Standards Online, Naxos Music Library, Newsbank, Oxford Art Online, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Language Dictionaries, Oxford Music Online, Oxford Reference, and others. | *Culture | A prime source of information. Free registration is required, the link gives details. For those with Firefox, the 'Sxipper' add-on will store your login details. |
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