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  • Parliamentary Enclosure in England

    An Introduction to its Causes, Incidence and Impact, 1750-1850

    by Gordon E Mingay ...
    Enclosure transformed the old open fields and common lands of England to create the modern rural landscape. It changed forever the life of many villages, but provided food for a rapidly rising population. Its methods and consequences were controversial - many rural poor lost their access to land - and the subject is still a cause of dispute. Gordon Mingay's authoritative survey guides the reader ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

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    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Read more

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  • The Great Stink of London

    Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis

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  • The Lowland Clearances

    Scotland's Silent Revolution 1760–1830

    by Peter Aitchison, Andrew Cassell ...
    The forced removal of family farmers across the Scottish Lowlands in the 18th and 19th centuries is chronicled in this enlightening social history.The Scottish Agricultural Revolution came at great cost to the poor cottars and tenant farmers who were driven from their homes to make way for livestock and crops. The process of forced evictions through the Highlands known as the Highland Clearances ... Read more

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  • Imperial Mud

    The Fight for the Fens

    by James Boyce ...
    ****WINNER OF THE HISTORY AND TRADITION CATEGORY, EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2020****LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021****'A real page-turner ... a warning about what happens when the rich and powerful dress up their avarice as "progress" - a lesson we could do with learning today.' Dixe Wills, BBC Countryfile magazineFROM A MULTI-AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN, AN ARRESTING NEW HISTORY OF THE ... Read more

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  • The Impact of the Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster

    by W.H. Crawford ...
    The domestic linen industry left an indelible imprint on Ulster history. It was introduced by colonists from the north of England in the seventeenth century, before the arrival of the Huguenots, and encouraged by the landlords to improve their rentals.Earnings from raising flax, spinning yarn and weaving cloth, provided farming families with regular incomes that enabled them to lease small farms ... Read more

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  • The Grimy 1800s

    Waste, Sewage, & Sanitation in Nineteenth Century Britain

    by André Gren ...
    Chronicles of the filth, foulness, and public health disasters found by "inspectors of nuisances" in a newly industrialized world.In the nineteenth century, as towns grew, Britain became increasingly grimy. The causes of dirt and pollution were defined legally as "nuisances" and, in 1835, the new local authorities very rapidly appointed an army of "inspectors of nuisances."This book reveals the ... Read more

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  • Tracing Your Rural Ancestors

    A Guide For Family Historians

    by Jonathan Brown ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who lived and worked in the countryside as farmers, laborers, landowners, village tradesmen and professionals for most of us have rural ancestors. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, these people have rarely been written about with the family historian in mind. No previous book has provided a guide to the documents and ... Read more

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  • Ireland Within the Union 1800-1921

    by Desmond Keenan ...
    This book represents a summary of my five previous books on Ireland within the Union with Great Britain. The traditional distortions of nationalist propaganda are weeded out; a complete re-examination was made of the original sources, and conclusions broadly in line with recent scholarship drawn from them. ... Read more

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    Ireland as It Really Was

    by Desmond Keenan ...
    Irish society and economy is studied objectively in this book as if it were a society in a distant region or in the distant past. The distortions of nationalist anti-British propaganda are removed. In particular the failure of the various separatist movements to devise an ideology which could unite and rally all the people of Ireland behind them is described. Ireland is analysed as a sociologist ... Read more

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  • Life in Medieval Landscapes

    People and Places in the Middle Ages

    by Sam Turner, Bob Silvester ...
    Life in Medieval Landscapes presents new studies on key themes in the economic and social history of the medieval landscape. The book draws together papers by medieval historians and archaeologists, with contributions by leading scholars in each field. The first part explores the nature of landscape regions in Britain and Ireland. Chapters explore the use and experience of different types of ... Read more

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  • Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914

    by John Langton ...
    This atlas draws together crucial social and economic data on England, Scotland and Wales between 1780 and 1914, and gives a clear guide to the industrial development of Great Britain during the modern period. ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD