The public part of SEAX contains the complete text of all the Essex Record Office catalogues and its indexes. You can use it to search for any documents relevant to your research and to order documents in advance of your visit.

Some wonderful old photographs of Sudbury here. Unfortunately, they are not available in particularly high-resolution from the site. However, it gives a wonderful impression of old Sudbury, and many of these photos are extremely rare.

East Anglian Archaeology publishes reports which cover material from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire.

The Suffolk Record Office preserves the raw materials of the history of the county in optimum storage conditions. It aims to catalogue and index this raw material so that the general public can use it for research purposes. It has nearly 40,000 visitors a year, one of which is our intrepid historian.

Ambitiously entitled the "Internet Library of Early Journals", the ILEJ was a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aimed to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data. The project finished in 1999, after which no additional material was added. Journals include twenty-year runs of the Gentleman's Magazine The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

The Society was founded in 1958 to encourage the study and preservation of Suffolk records, and to publish editions of documents relating to Suffolk and its people in all periods from the Middle Ages to the present day. They have a number of wonderful publications of edited source materials

Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History Founded in 1848 the Institute is Suffolk's largest and oldest archaeological and historical society. For a century and a half it has played an important role in encouraging and publishing research on Suffolk's past. Currently responsible for publishing Birkin Hayward's 'Suffolk Medieval Church Roof Carvings' 'Suffolk Medieval Church Arcades' and 'Master Mason Hawes of Occold and John Hore, Master carpenter of Diss'

The Suffolk Local History Council exists to encourage, promote and assist the study and research of local history in the county of Suffolk. Founded in 1953, The S.L.H.C. is a county federation of local societies, groups and bodies interested in local history.

Historical Directories is produced and owned by the University of Leicester. It is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. Within the digital library you'll find high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books