The ICAEW Library & Information Service provides a collection of resources which have been developed to help researchers tracing the history of individuals, firms and the accountancy profession.
Accountancy Ancestors
A new resource developed to help researchers tracing their family history or who are studying the history of accountancy firms. Accountancy Ancestors includes an index to over 3200 obituaries and 1700 photographs of individuals from 1874 to 1965.
The accountants' directory for 1877
The accountants' directory for 1877, compiled by Alfred Harper and published by Williams & Strahan, provides a snapshot of the membership of the first professional bodies for accountancy in the 1870s, just a few years before the establishment of the ICAEW.
Index of UK and Irish Accountancy and Professional Bodies (including historical and defunct bodies)
A record of current and defunct organisations including historical information such as name changes for over 200 professional associations, bodies, societies and institutes related to the accountancy profession.
A study of practising accountants listed in London trade directories published before 1840
This study of practising accountants listed in London trade directories published before 1840, by Peter Boys, is of particular significance to our understanding of the number of accountants practising in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in London. The appendices includes listings of accountants in eighteenth-century London and in London trade directories between 1800-1839.
Past Presidents of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales on the Web, 1880-2005
A new edition of the publication providing an analysis of ICAEW presidents, vice-presidents and deputy-presidents from 1880 until 2005, the time of the ICAEW's 125th anniversary.
Timeline of the History of the Accountancy Profession
Peer into the past and observe the course of events that led to the development of the accountancy profession in the UK in this online chronology.
What's in a name: Firms' simplified family trees on the web
Family trees showing the development of the largest UK accountancy firms of the twentieth century compiled and revised by respected accounting historian, Peter Boys for a new online edition, published in November 2005.
With the colours
An online version of the book 'With the colours; a list of Chartered and Incorporated Accountants and their Clerks who are serving with the British Forces on land and sea, 1914-1916' is available through our website and can be accessed by surname or by the name of accountancy firm.