Resources

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.

• Accountancy Ancestors

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.

• View the directory

Accounting Historians' Guide to London

A map and guide written by Professor R.H. Parker focusing on the places in and around the City of London of importance in accounting history.

• Accounting Historians' Guide to London

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.

• Index of UK and Irish Accountancy and Professional Bodies

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.

• Presidents of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales on the Web, 1880-2005

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.

• Timeline of the History of the Accountancy Profession

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.

• What's in a name: Firms' simplified family trees on the web

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.

• With the colours