Currency Exchange
Rates
Pacific Exchange
Rate Service pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/
Historical daily exchange rates are available for 87 currencies,
some going back to 1971. A chart gives the earliest date available for
each currency.
Oanda Currency Convertor www.oanda.com
Includes options for generating tables and graphs of historical data
some of which goes back to 1990. The tables can be formatted as HTML,
ASCII or CSV.
Global Financial Data www.globalfinancialdata.com
Current and Historical Data for the United States and over 150 countries,
including stock markets from 1690, exchange rates from 1590, interest
rates from 1700, commodities from 1500 and inflation from 1264. Data
are recorded daily, weekly, monthly, and annually. There are several
free annual data series including: inflation rates since 1264, interest
rates since 1700, commodity prices since 1257, exchange rates since
1800. Subscriptions to the priced service range from USD 25 for some
individual files to several thousand dollars for an annual subscription
to the entire database.
Libor Rates
British Bankers Association www.bba.org.uk
Provides access to historic Libor rates in Excel format and going
back to 1986.
Purchasing Power over Time
Current
Value of Old Money
www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
Currency Abbreviations
World Currencies
and Abbreviations
www.jhall.demon.co.uk/currency/index.html
VAT
VAT Number Validation ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/vieshome.do
Validate any EU VAT number by selecting the member state and entering the VAT number.
VAT Rates
Applied in the Member States of the European Community ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/
taxation/vat/how_vat_works/rates/vat_rates_en.pdf
PricewaterhouseCoopers:
Global VAT Online
www.globalvatonline.pwcglobal.com
Priced service only.
UK Base Rates /
Interest Rates
Bank
of England Monetary and Financial Statistics Division www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/index.htm
Links to detailed information on exchange rates and interest rates.
The Official Bank Rate section provides details of UK interest
rates, and when they became effective, going back to 1970 in spreadsheet and PDF formats.
Industry Classification
Codes
Ramon - Eurostat
Classification Server europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/ramon/
If you don't know your NACE from your HS6, this site has many of the
coding systems in use around the world including the Harmonized Commodity
Description used in trade statistics services. Codes can be viewed online
or downloaded in various formats.
Europa
List of NACE Codes europa.eu.int/comm/competition/mergers/cases/index/nace_all.html
US Standard Industrial
Classification Search
www.osha.gov/oshstats/sicser.html
North American
Industry Classification System
www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html
Property/Real Estate (UK)
Land Registry www.landregistry.gov.uk
The Land Registry guarantees the title to, and records the ownership
of, interests in registered land in England and Wales.
Our Property - Property and
house prices revealed OurProperty.co.uk
One of the many services that repackage data from the Land Registry
of England and Wales, and the Registers of Scotland but this one offers
users 20 free searches a week. You get to see the address of the property,
the date it was sold and how much it was sold for. It does not give
the name of the owner or the name of the lender. There is also an email
alerting service that enables you to monitor house prices up to 500
meters from a post code. (http://www.ourproperty.co.uk/alert.html).
The data goes back to 2000 and covers England, Wales and Scotland.
House Prices - Nationwide
Building Society www.nationwide.co.uk/hpi/
Land Registers of Scotland
www.ros.gov.uk
Environment Agency
www.environment-agency.gov.uk
Information on flood risk and pollution available by location or post
code.
Images of England
www.imagesofengland.org.uk
Web site set up by English Heritage National Monuments Record containing
information about listed buildings.
Street Maps
Google Maps maps.google.co.uk
Can combine street map with "local search" for business, restaurants
etc.
Maps Live Search maps.live.com
UK Street Maps www.streetmap.co.uk
Multimap www.multimap.com
Postal Services
UK Postcodes
Royal Mail www.royalmail.co.uk/paf/
Post and Zip codes World-wide
Links to Postcode Pages
www.grcdi.nl/linkspc.htm
UK Postal Services
Royal Mail www.royalmail.co.uk
Parcel Force www.parcelforce.com
UK Electoral Roll
UK Electoral Roll www.192.com
- Priced service.
UK Telephone Codes
Online CodeLook
www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/codelook.asp
Searchable web database but number of lookups is restricted. There is
also a windows application that can be downloaded to look-up partial
telephone numbers to find the locality and tariff band, and look-up
localities to find the code. Available to members only.
Say No to 0870 www.saynoto0870.com
Database of alternative geographic teleohone numbers for
0800, 0808, 0844, 0845, 0870 and 0871 numbers.
Telephone Directories
Telephone Directories on the
Web www.infobel.com
Annotated list of online telephone directories organised by continent
and country.
Glossaries
The Glossarist www.glossarist.com/
Directory of glossaries on all subjects.
Moneyextra - Glossary
- A-Z of financial terms
www.moneyextra.com/glossary/
Yahoo Financial Glossary
biz.yahoo.com/glossary/
Acronyms
Acronym Finder www.acronymfinder.com
Acronyma www.acronyma.com
Travel
BAA - UK Flight Arrivals, Flight Timetable,
Airport News
www.baa.co.uk
Real time information on flight arrivals at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted,
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Southampton.
Dohop - low cost flight search engine
www.dohop.com
National Rail - the Gateway
to Britain's National Rail Network
www.nationalrail.co.uk
Links to UK train companies, timetables, types of ticket, train
running information (for example problems with the rail network in general,
delays to services).
Trainline www.thetrainline.com
Ticket and reservation service.
Transport Direct - Connecting
People to Places www.transportdirect.info
Information on buses and trains in the UK.
Biographies
Answers.com - Online Dictionary,
Encyclopedia and much more www.answers.com/
Pulls together information from a variety of resources including Wikipedia.
Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org
The different language versions of Wikipedia are not usually translations
of each other, but usually contain articles by different authors.
Credo Reference www.credoreference.com Formerly xRefer. Priced
service.
Biography Center www.biography-center.com
Gale Biography Resource
Center www.galegroup.com/BiographyRC/ Priced service.
Who2 www.who2.com
Biographies of famous people including classic authors, movie stars,
kings and queens, mythical gods, cartoon characters.
Who named it www.whonamedit.com
A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms
Online Bookshops
Amazon
UK www.amazon.co.uk
Amazon US Bookshop www.amazon.com
Abebooks www.abebooks.com
(formerly Just Books)
Second hand, out of print and antiquarian books.
Blackwell's bookshop.blackwell.co.uk
BookMooch www.bookmooch.co.uk
A community for exchanging used books that lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.
Foyles www.foyles.co.uk
Golden Books Group - Leather bound books, used books and book sets, bookstore www.goldenbooksgroup.co.uk Antiquarian leather bound books, book sets and rare book dealers. Also stockists of antiquarian prints, maps, antiques and fine art.
iBooknet: the independent booksellers' network www.ibooknet.org British cooperative of used books booksellers. Over 500,000 books listed by 40 established independent booksellers. Books bought and sold.
viaLibri www.vialibri.net Searches for old and rare books on eighteen different web sites that aggregate the inventory of hundreds of antiquarian booksellers world-wide.
Waterstones www.waterstones.com
Weather
BBC Weather www.bbc.co.uk/weather/
The Met Office www.meto.gov.uk
Yahoo Weather weather.yahoo.co.uk
Translation Sites
Most of the sites listed below are machine translation sites or
give you links to translation sites. They can be useful for obtaining
rough and ready translations of text and Web pages but the results should
be treated with caution.
Yahoo Babelfish
uk.babelfish.yahoo.com
Google Language Tools www.google.com
Online Dictionaries
and Translators www.word2word.com/dictionary.html s
Free Translation of Web and
Text www.freetranslation.com
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