Author: Michael Dwyer
Publisher: Michael Dwyer
ISBN: 1399938703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Bessborough was Ireland's most notorious Mother & Baby Home. From 1922 to 1998 almost 20,000 women and children passed through its doors. In the first book of its kind, historian Michael Dwyer takes us inside Bessborough. Using an array of historical sources, Dwyer pieces together the relationship between the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts who ran the home, the local authorities who paid them to maintain women and children there and the state departments who oversaw its operation. Dwyer charts Bessborough's 76 year history and addresses the many controversies surrounding the Mother & Baby Home from vaccine trials to the extraordinarily high infant death rate and the mystery which still surrounds the location of over 800 infant remains.
Bessborough Mother and Baby Home
Author: Michael Dwyer
Publisher: Michael Dwyer
ISBN: 1399938703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Bessborough was Ireland's most notorious Mother & Baby Home. From 1922 to 1998 almost 20,000 women and children passed through its doors. In the first book of its kind, historian Michael Dwyer takes us inside Bessborough. Using an array of historical sources, Dwyer pieces together the relationship between the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts who ran the home, the local authorities who paid them to maintain women and children there and the state departments who oversaw its operation. Dwyer charts Bessborough's 76 year history and addresses the many controversies surrounding the Mother & Baby Home from vaccine trials to the extraordinarily high infant death rate and the mystery which still surrounds the location of over 800 infant remains.
Publisher: Michael Dwyer
ISBN: 1399938703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Bessborough was Ireland's most notorious Mother & Baby Home. From 1922 to 1998 almost 20,000 women and children passed through its doors. In the first book of its kind, historian Michael Dwyer takes us inside Bessborough. Using an array of historical sources, Dwyer pieces together the relationship between the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts who ran the home, the local authorities who paid them to maintain women and children there and the state departments who oversaw its operation. Dwyer charts Bessborough's 76 year history and addresses the many controversies surrounding the Mother & Baby Home from vaccine trials to the extraordinarily high infant death rate and the mystery which still surrounds the location of over 800 infant remains.
Coates's Herd Book
Author: Henry Strafford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Herdbook Containing the Pedigree of Improved Short-horn Cattle
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
Vols. - include the Shorthorn Society's Grading register for beef Shorthorn cattle; v. - include the society's Herd book of poll shorthorns.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
Vols. - include the Shorthorn Society's Grading register for beef Shorthorn cattle; v. - include the society's Herd book of poll shorthorns.
The Aberdeen-Angus Herd Book
Author: Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen-Angus cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen-Angus cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Pursuit of the Heiress
Author: A. P. W. Malcomson
Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
ISBN: 9781903688656
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"The Pursuit of the Heiress" is a new, greatly enlarged and more widely focused version of what the late Lawrence Stone described as "a brilliant long essay or short book on the subject of the role of heiresses among the Irish aristocracy," which was published by the Ulster Historical Foundation under the same title in 1982 and has long been out of print. The new book comes to the same broad conclusions about heiresses--namely that their importance as a means of enlarging the estates or retrieving the fortunes of their husbands has been much exaggerated. This was because known heiresses were well protected by a variety of legal devices and, in common with many aristocratic women of the day, also had minds and strong preferences of their own--which meant that they were not generally an object of deliberate or profitable pursuit. The new book also ranges more widely than its central theme of heiresses and addresses other aspects of aristocratic marriage such as abductions, elopements, mesalliances, the supposed "rise of the affective family," and the disadvantaged situation of even the richest and most privileged women in an age when both adultery and divorce were largely the prerogative of men.
Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
ISBN: 9781903688656
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"The Pursuit of the Heiress" is a new, greatly enlarged and more widely focused version of what the late Lawrence Stone described as "a brilliant long essay or short book on the subject of the role of heiresses among the Irish aristocracy," which was published by the Ulster Historical Foundation under the same title in 1982 and has long been out of print. The new book comes to the same broad conclusions about heiresses--namely that their importance as a means of enlarging the estates or retrieving the fortunes of their husbands has been much exaggerated. This was because known heiresses were well protected by a variety of legal devices and, in common with many aristocratic women of the day, also had minds and strong preferences of their own--which meant that they were not generally an object of deliberate or profitable pursuit. The new book also ranges more widely than its central theme of heiresses and addresses other aspects of aristocratic marriage such as abductions, elopements, mesalliances, the supposed "rise of the affective family," and the disadvantaged situation of even the richest and most privileged women in an age when both adultery and divorce were largely the prerogative of men.
Lady Bessborough and Her Family Circle
Author: Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby Countess of Bessborough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Bessboro: a History of Westport, Essex Co., N.Y.
Author: Caroline Halstead Barton Royce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Westport (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Westport (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Lord John Russell
Author: Paul Scherer
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575910215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"This biography also adds considerable information about Russell's private life, which has not appeared in any previous biography, much of it based in private letters not heretofore used by historians."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575910215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"This biography also adds considerable information about Russell's private life, which has not appeared in any previous biography, much of it based in private letters not heretofore used by historians."--BOOK JACKET.
Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2288
Book Description
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019
Author: Susan Morris
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1999767055
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 7460
Book Description
Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage is the only up-to-date printed reference guide to the United Kingdom's titled families: the hereditary peers, life peers and peeresses, and baronets, and their descendants who form the fascinating tapestry of the peerage. This is the first ebook edition of Debrett's Peerage &Baronetage, and it also contains information relating to:The Royal FamilyCoats of ArmsPrincipal British Commonwealth OrdersCourtesy titlesForms of addressExtinct, dormant, abeyant and disclaimed titles.Special features for this anniversary edition include:The Roll of Honour, 1920: a list of the 3,150 people whose names appeared in the volume who were killed in action or died as a result of injuries sustained during the First World War.A number of specially commissioned articles, including an account of John Debrett's life and the early history of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, a history of the royal dukedoms, and an in-depth feature exploring the implications of modern legislation and mores on the ancient traditions of succession.
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1999767055
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 7460
Book Description
Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage is the only up-to-date printed reference guide to the United Kingdom's titled families: the hereditary peers, life peers and peeresses, and baronets, and their descendants who form the fascinating tapestry of the peerage. This is the first ebook edition of Debrett's Peerage &Baronetage, and it also contains information relating to:The Royal FamilyCoats of ArmsPrincipal British Commonwealth OrdersCourtesy titlesForms of addressExtinct, dormant, abeyant and disclaimed titles.Special features for this anniversary edition include:The Roll of Honour, 1920: a list of the 3,150 people whose names appeared in the volume who were killed in action or died as a result of injuries sustained during the First World War.A number of specially commissioned articles, including an account of John Debrett's life and the early history of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, a history of the royal dukedoms, and an in-depth feature exploring the implications of modern legislation and mores on the ancient traditions of succession.