Internet Links
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- Leicestershire County Council jobs site
- See also jobs and careers information agencies
- Agency Seeker - Recruitment Agency Directory
- Apprenticeships - The Learning and Skills Council provide information about apprenticeships.
- Armchair Advice - Advice and coping with redundancy
- Carreerjet - Careerjet is a job search engine for the UK
- Careers Advice Service - impartial information on courses and careers, as well as job profiles, CV Builder, forums and podcasts
- Careers A-Z (UK)
- Careers Seeker - jobs board
- Check4jobs.com - Search local jobs & vacancies online
- Charity Jobs - Charity and third sector jobs
- Connexions Careers Information
- Courses and Careers UK - Opportunities for school and college leavers
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Direct Gov - Employment - Information from the Government about employment.
- Disability Employment Advisory Committee - DEAC is an Advisory Committee which has been established to look at employment issues for the disabled.
- Employing Older Workers - Advice and guidance from Business Link
- Employment4students - A jobsite dedicated to helping students and young people find work
- Employment Opportunities - Employment Opportunities is a national charity helping people with disabilities find and retain work.
- Fish 4 Jobs
- Gis-a-job
- Greatcare group - for professionals seeking jobs - Nursery and childcare | Social Work and Caring | Education
- Hairdressing Jobs UK
- Indeed.co.uk - Search engine for jobs
- Infolinx (Jobs) - Local authority vacancies in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland
- Job Centre Plus - Employment Services site
- Job Hits - allows job seekers to search through many job boards in the UK with a single search.
- LearnDirect
- Monster.co.uk - information on jobseeking and CV writing
- MyLeicesterJobs.co.uk is a local jobsite purely for Leicester, with 100's of jobs online from local companies and agencies.
- New Deal - New Deal helps people on benefits get the help and support they need to look for work, including training and job preparation.
- Next Step - Leicestershire Information, Advice and Guidance about learning and work for adults
- 'nextstep' CV builder - user friendly CV builder from 'nextstep'
- Nursery Jobs - Nursery, nanny and other childcare jobs.
- Public Jobs Direct - temporary and permanent public sector jobs
- Remploy - Remploy finds jobs for disabled people in major organisations, as well as its own manufacturing and service businesses.
- Occupations - online version of the directory from Connexions
- TipTopJob is a generic jobsite that covers over 35 industry sectors. Search and apply for jobs online
- totaljobs - Search jobs online from top companies across the UK on totaljobs
- Work Train - national jobs, careers and learning site
- Land Registry - The Land Registry guarantees the title to, and records the ownership of, interests in registered land in England and Wales - includes contact details for the Leicester Office which covers Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
- BBC Languages Section - Learn French, German, Italian or Spanish
- freelang.net download or access language dictionaries. The site lists translation resources, including tools for hand-held devices and free online translation software.
- FreeTranslation from SDL International, offers text and website translation in several European and Asian languages.
- Learn French - Learn French guide, all about how to learn french and how to speak french.
- Omniglot is a portal listing language and translation-related resources.
- PROMT offers a free translation tool that enables you to translate text, websites and e- mail from and into English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.
- Translation site - Alta Vista - a useful translating site which can translate up to 150 words at a time
- WorldLingo provides free translation of up to 150 words for text, Web pages and e-mail covering 15 languages.
- A Legal Information Gateway
- Bar Council
- British Law - community information site for citizens and small business
- Citizens Advice Bureau - information on the legal system in England & Wales
- Commissioners Decisions - commissioners decisions up to April 2002
- Community Legal Advice
- Detectives UK Investigations Agencies - Leicestershire
- Law Society
- Living Together - legal advice relating to living together
- Married or Not - another legal site relating to living together
- Social Security and Child Support Commissioners - help for those wishing to appeal against tribunal decisions and more recent commissioners decisions
- Tenant Participation Advisory Service for England - information, advice, training, consultancy, seminars and conferences on all aspects of involving tenants in their housing management.
- Access to Archives - catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day.
- Ancestry - a pay-to-view site with access to a wide range of resources.
- Ancestry Library Edition - free access to Ancestry in all libraries in Leicestershire.
- BBC Family History
- Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration
- British History Online
- British Isles GenWeb Project
- British Library Online Gallery - historical material from the archives of the British Library.
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission - search the 'Debt of Honour Register for the two world wars.
- Cyndi's List - links to genealogical websites worldwide. Huge list of UK resources.
- Documents Online - digital images of public records held by The National Archives.
- East Midlands Oral History Archive
- Family Search - the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; searchable by name.
- Federation of Family History Societies
- Find My Past - gives 'pay to view' access to a wide range of resources including the GRO indexes of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales from 1837 to date and census records from 1841 - 1911. £5 vouchers are available from larger libraries.
- First World War - sources for history.
- Foxhunting
- Free BMD - Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales
- GENUKI - Leicestershire - UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service.
- General Register Office - order birth, marriage and death certificates.
- Guild of One Name Studies
- Historical Directories - local and trade directories for England and Wales from 1750 - 1919.
- Historical Manuscripts Commission - archive holdings in the UK.
- Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies
- Irish Family History Foundation
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
- Learn with Museums - Developing museum and archive education across the East Midlands
- Leicestershire and Rutland Family History Society.
- Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society
- Leicestershire Regiment - BBC Leicester Rememberance site .
- Leicestershire Villages - growing number of village history pages which may be of use to family historians.
- Media Archive for Central England
- Mills Archive
- Moving Here - 200 years of migration to England.
- My Leicestershire History - explore the history of Leicestershire through films, photographs, audio recordings and books, all free, all online.
- My Old House
- National Archives
- National Trust Names - search on the geography of the most frequent 25,000 surnames in Britain.
- Newspapers - British Newspapers
- Old Maps - access to maps for the late 1800s and early 1900s.
- Oral History - Local oral history site
- Oxford DNB - a subscription site but free access in libraries and from home through the Online Reference Library
- People Search Online - an internet-based service aimed at individuals wishing to find missing persons, or friends, family or associates they have lost touch with. They charge for searches.
- Railway Archive
- Registration Service - Leicestershire Registration Service
- ScotlandsPeople - 'pay to view' access to genealogical data for Scotland.
- Society of Genealogists
- Swannington - Swannington Heritage site.
- War Memorials - Leicestershire War Memorials project.
- Workhouses
see also Focus on Family History
- Google Maps
- Historical Maps
- Maps.com
- Streetmap
- UK Multimap - road and street maps. You can also search by postcode.
- worldmapper - a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of the map
- See also Local Media
- See also newspaper holdings in Leicestershire Libraries
National Newspapers
International Papers
- Die Welt
- El Pais
- Le Monde
- The Irish Times
- ThePaperboy.com - searchable database of newspapers for the whole world
Magazines
Television
- Choose.net - market comparison on everyday UK financial products including credit cards and personal loans
- Citizens Advice Bureau - information on the legal system in England & Wales
- Credit Card Comparison Online
- Debt Advice Foundation - offers free, confidential support and advice to anyone worried about debt.
- Debt Help org.uk - Debt and money management advice
- Financial Services Authority - Regulates Financial services and protects consumer rights
- Money Week - financial information
- Standard and Poor's Fund Service - financial info, performance tables of various funds, trusts etc.
- Enderby Band - Information about one of the UK's largest Brass Band Organisations
- Music in Leicester - BBC Leicester site
- Roasted Studios - Professional Recording Studio and Rehearsal Rooms
Page Last Updated: 28 October 2011
