Author: Marvin R. Cain
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Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: John Moss
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 152672281X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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A reference guide to hundreds of surnames that reveal the story of the United Kingdom across generations and centuries. To some extent, we are all products of our family history, the many generations before us. So it is with nations. The history of Great Britain has been largely defined by powerful and influential families, many of whose names came down from Celtic, Danish, Saxon or Norman ancestors. Their family names fill the pages of history books, indelibly written into events we learn about at school. Family names like Wellington, Nelson, Shakespeare, Cromwell, Constable, De Montfort, and Montgomery reflect the long, checkered history of Britain, and demonstrate the assimilation of the many cultures and languages that have migrated to the British isles over the centuries. This book is a snapshot of several hundred such family names and delves into their beginnings and derivations, making extensive use of old sources, including translations of The Domesday Book and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, as well as tracing many through the centuries to the present day.

Author: William Anderson (Miscellaneous Writer.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 800

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Author: William Anderson
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Languages : en
Pages : 808

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Author: James Taylor
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Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Robert Andrew Sherrard
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Languages : en
Pages : 434

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John Sherrard (1750-1809), of Scottish lineage, emigrated from Ireland to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and served in the Revolutionary War. He married twice and moved to Kentucky, and then to Smithfield, Ohio. Descendants lived in Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere.

Author: Edward Walford
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 976

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Author: Mrs. Margaret Ethel Kington Blair Oliphant Maxtone-Graham
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Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: Katie Barclay
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847797962
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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Winner of the 2012 Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History and the 2012 Women's History Network (UK) Book Prize Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this book explores how ideas around the nature of emotional intimacy, love and friendship within marriage adapted to a modernising economy and society. Patriarchy continued to be the central model for marriage across the period and as a result, women found spaces to hold power within the family, but could not translate it to power beyond the household. Comparing the Scottish experience to that across Europe and North America, Barclay shows that throughout the eighteenth century, far from being a side-note in European history, Scottish ideas about gender and marriage became culturally dominant. Now available in paperback, this book will be vital to those studying and teaching Scottish social history, and those interested in the history of marriage and gender. It will also appeal to feminists interested in the history of patriarchy. 'An important and original study' WHN Book Prize 2012 Judges

Author: Sebastiaan Verweij
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198757298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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This book explains the literary history of Scotland in the early modern period (1560-1625) by investigating what was the most important way of publishing such literature (mostly poetry): the manuscript. It organises the majority of surviving manuscripts by three different types of place where they were written and read: 1) the royal court, 2) the city, and 3) the country. It has long been believed that the renaissance in Scotland was a disappointing affair, butthis book argues that in fact it has long been misunderstood: the contents of little-known manuscripts paint a picture of a much more interesting cultural history than was previously known.