White's Directories

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White's Directories were a series of directory publications issued by William White of Sheffield, England, beginning in the 1820s.[3][4] White began his career in publishing by working for Edward Baines.[5][nb 1]

Notes

  1. By the 1850s Sheffield had two professional directory publishers: William White (34 Collegiate Crescent, Broomhall Park) and Francis White (Broomhall Terrace, 104 Ecclesial New Road)[1][2]

References

  1. Post office directory of Sheffield. Kelley and Co. 1854. 
  2. John Parker Anderson (1881), "Yorkshire: Sheffield", Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, London: W. Satchell 
  3. "White's Directories (advert)", White's general and commercial directory of Hull, 1882, "Established 1822" 
  4. [http://openlibrary.org/books/ia:pigotcosnational1837dire/Pigot_and_Co.'s_national_commercial_directory_for_the_whole_of_Scotland_and_of_the_Isle_of_Man_..._t Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory for the Whole of Scotland and of the Isle of Man, ... Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Hull, Birmingham, Sheffiled, Carlisle, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne], London: J. Pigot & Co., 1837 
  5. M. T. Wild and G. Shaw (1974). "Locational Behaviour of Urban Retailing during the Nineteenth Century: The Example of Kingston upon Hull". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (61). JSTOR 621602. 

Further reading

1820s-1830s

  • William White (1836), [http://openlibrary.org/books/OL20613547M/History_Gazetteer_and_Directory_of_Norfolk_and_the_City_and_County_of_the_City_of_Norwich_... History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, and the City and County of the City of Norwich], Printed for the author by R. Leader, OCLC 25166377 

1840s

1870s

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