There are over twenty CD-ROM's in this section containing over ten thousand images from Chamberlain's, Kelly's, Simpson's and Steven's directories of Portsmouth and the surrounding area covering the period between 1863 and 1918.

Commercial, Residential, Street and Trade directories are included along with contemporary advertisements, local history and information about local organisations and institutons.

Residents can be located by surname in the residential directories and the street directories allow the resident of a property to be located by street name and house number, occupations are often included.

There are six CD-ROM's in this section containing several hundred images covering the period between 1775 and 1930. The Dockyard, Gunwharf, Haslar Hospital and the Isle of Wight are featured along with the town, markets, ferries and the surrounding area.

When Lake Taswell, surgeon and apothecary, wrote the first Portsmouth guidebook in 1775, extolling the town's virtues, Portsmouth (now Old Portsmouth) huddled unhealthily behind its moats and ramparts, afflicted by poor water supply and even poorer waste disposal. An ever-changing population of sailors and soldiers left it even more open than the average eighteenth century town to the effects of disease, and its economy fluctuated greatly in accordance with the demands of the Royal Navy in peace and war. Nevertheless there was pride in the town and in the Dockyard and there were the stirrings of curiosity about Portsmouth and its past.

These contemporary histories of Portsmouth were published between 1801 and 1817. The Dockyard, Gunwharf, Haslar Hospital and the Isle of Wight are featured along with the town, markets, ferries, stage coaches, and the surrounding area.

There are two CD-ROM's in this section containing almost a thousand digital images taken from early twentieth century photographs of the Dockyard and Edwardian picture postacards.

There are three CD-ROM's in this section, The National Roll of The Great War 1914-1918 lists over seven thousand Portsmouth residents along witha brief discription of theit contribution to the war.

There are also CD-ROM's about Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812, and Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle the Creater of Sherlock Holmes lived in Southsea during the 1880's.

The Portsmouth Telegraph, or Naval and Military Journal was published weekly back in 1801 and is packed with information. Naval appointments and ship movements were publicised along with letters from captains and admirals, prize money for the capture of ships and news from the fleet around the globe. Auctions were held at Taverns and Inns in Cowes, Gosport, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester where ships and cargo were sold along with properties. Punishment was severe and execution, whipping or transportation to New South Wales for stealing items such as geese and sugar was the norm.

The image to the left is an interesting article from volume one of this series. It describes a duel at twelve paces that took place between Lieutenant Minster, of the Marines, belonging to HMS Monarch, and Lieutenant Christian Laschen, of the Latona frigate, at Queenborough, near Sheerness in 1801.