Hi,
I think Legacy, or even Roots Magic, ought to be okay for you. I use both. But true, I'm in the US, although I have done some UK research for a few in my tree and I've not have had much problem.
Both do have some UK oriented templates. Census, etc. Generally books, loose papers, etc will be the same no matter where they are. So, I would think you should not much problem.
There is a link to a user groupr for Legacy, fantastic people with loads of experience and also "tech support" chimes in a lot... but some reason the link is not setting correctly. I even typed it into notepad first but the link is not creating correctly and won't take you to the page. I have no idea why. Bummer.
I will work on it and find a way for you to get to it.
(okay, found a way, but I can't link you directly to it, but if you click the link below and on that page look down to the "LegacyUserGroups Archives" and click that link beside it. You will then find the page that I've tried to get you to. I read this 'archive' daily because it a very active group and it is fully searchable. I've learned a lot just reading. (except how to copy/paste the direct url to it and the link work)... ^_^)
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp#ArchivesAnyways... The two softwares have strong points, that different to each, and I truly wish there was 'a' software that had a combo of these strong points. But, that is how the software creators are able to make their money. You've got to have something that the competition doesn't. But, I digress. ^_^
I love Legacy. It can be very simple to use for new researchers, but can be a very good software for the more knowledgable researcher. I love the copy/paste of events. Both Rootsmagic and Legacy have the "share" events feature, but I do not use that. I create each event for each person so I can make description notes fit each individual. Share will not do that. Rootsmagic does NOT have the copy events feature. Both will copy/paste source citations, which I use heavily and you can change the citation detail and notes for each 'paste', which I do for almost everyone of them. Makes sourcing go really quick and I know that I am getting strong documentation for all bits of knowledge.
Rootsmagic has a feature, for each event and piece of data of whether proven/unproven/disputed. If disputed, it draws a line through the event information (date/place/description (not the notes)) on your screen so you can visibily 'see' what is what.... if disproven, it draws that line, but also puts the information in red so you definitely can't miss what you've proven as being wrong and won't research it twice having forgotten.
Both have the levels of surety for the source citations.
Legacy has a lot more flexibility in the many ways you can set it to suit you, how you want data handled or on screen viewing. Rootsmagic is quite a bit less. Legacy has a LOT more reports with more flexibility. One of Legacy's strong points. Another one is Legacy's use for creating a website. There are many users of Legacy that use it strictly because of that feature and the websites turn out really well.
Rootsmagic, the full version, you can make a copy of your database, an exact copy onto a CD and it will be in "read only" format. Wonderful to share your work, in ALL it's glorius details and no one can accidently, or on purpose, change anything. (yeah, they can manually 'copy' anything they want, but can't just "use YOUR hard work "whole hog". If you want to give them the "whole hog" then you can always send the normal gedcom for whatever program they use or a backup of your work to put into a copy of Rootsmagic. Legacy does NOT make "read only" versions of your work. But Legacy has a wonderful "intellishare" feature for those that work on research together and it's easy to make changes and exchange the work back to the "main keeper" of the database. Intellishare will add whatever has been changed to the "keepers" database and won't change anything else.
Okay, I could prattle forever, so I'll stop. Here is another link to Legacy's virtual webinars. Many are forever free, great videos for helping get you familiar. They have new ones every week and are viewable for a few days for free. All are purchasable.
Legacy
http://www.familytreewebinars.com/Here is Rootsmagic's forum with lots of help and great people for answering your questions...
http://forums.rootsmagic.com/?
And Rootsmagic's webinars, always free...
http://rootsmagic.com/Webinars/Those user groups and forum will have lots more help than you will get here. Very few people check in on this one here. I occasionally check to make certain no Legacy questions just sit unanswered.
Hope this helped you some. If you have anymore questions I will do my best to answer them or find where you will get your answer.
Val