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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 18 (October 2014)
Issue 18 features: * Housekeeping through history: Margaret Powling shows how housekeeping books can illuminate social history * Celebration of place: A new one-place studies conference * Wounded in WW1: Explore 1.3m casualty records online * Sea changes: Karen Foy on the many ways we can learn about our migrant ancestors * A walk in the park: The development of public parks * The slippery poll: 18th and 19th century poll books revealed * History in the details: Cloaks and mantles * Places in Focus: Norwich More Info
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The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I
This book by M. Perceval-Maxwell was first published in 1973, yet it continues to be one of the most significant works of scholarship on the Plantation of Ulster. This book describes in detail the initial establishment of settlement in Ireland's northern province over a comparitively short space of time, that is from 1603 to 1625. Dr Perceval-Maxwell examines the society that produced the Scottish...More Info
Our Tangled Speech: Essays on Language and Culture
People are rarely neutral about the Irish language. In Northern Ireland it is a topic which usually creates more heat than light. While attitudes have softened somewhat over the years, polarised views about the language are remarkably persistent. Historic and contemporary efforts to maintain the language have had varied success, but the key goal of creating new sustainable language communities, wh...More Info
Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600–1800 (Second Edition)
When the first edition of this book appeared in 2005 it was quickly recognised as an essential work of reference for family historians researching Ulster ancestors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It filled an important gap in providing reliable guidance on sources for perhaps the most critical period in understanding a family’s links with the north of Ireland. This is territory w...More Info
Baden: Atlantic Bridge to Germany
By Linda M Herrick & Wendy K Uncapher. In the same series as the Alsace-Lorraine book above and containing the same features. NB the book covers the old pre-1918 Grand Duchy of Baden and its predecessor territories; not the Kingdom of Wurttemberg which will be dealt with in a later volume. Baden is now part of the Land of Baden-Wurttemberg.
Pomerania: Atlantic Bridge to Germany.
By Linda M Herrick & Wendy K Uncapher. In the same series as the Alsace-Lorraine book above and containing the same features. NB the book covers the old pre-1918 Prussian Province of Pomerania and its predecessor territories; now split between Geremany and Poland.