Old Scottish Customs, Local and General
Title | Old Scottish Customs, Local and General PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Emma Guthrie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Scotland |
ISBN |
Scottish Customs
Title | Scottish Customs PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Bennett |
Publisher | Birlinn |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2012-12-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0857905449 |
A highly readable and absorbing anthology of traditional Scottish customs and rites of passage, Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave draws upon a broad range of literary and oral sources. Scotland has been fortunate to have written accounts of intrepid early travellers such as Martin Martin, Edward Burt and John Lane Buchanan, and extracts from their writing are found alongside modern interviews made by Margaret Bennett and researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University. This expanded edition includes a large amount of new material. The result is a detailed and comprehensive picture of social behaviour in Scotland over the last 400 years. The book is divided into three sections, each covering a stage in the cycle of life: Childbirth and infancy; Love, courtship and marriage; Death The first edition was originally published by Polygon and was joint runner-up of the 1993 Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1907-1911
Title | Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1907-1911 PDF eBook |
Author | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1186 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal) |
ISBN |
The Stirling Antiquary
Title | The Stirling Antiquary PDF eBook |
Author | Ur. B. Cook |
Publisher | |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, for the Years 1869-87
Title | Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, for the Years 1869-87 PDF eBook |
Author | Public Library of New South Wales |
Publisher | |
Pages | 848 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN |
Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow
Title | Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow PDF eBook |
Author | Faculty of Procurators in Glascow. Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1120 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Our Mothers' Land
Title | Our Mothers' Land PDF eBook |
Author | Angela V John |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2011-02-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1783162872 |
This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of this groundbreaking book. It reflects the pioneering research of its contributors to the development of modern Welsh women’s history. The eight chapters range widely across time (1830-1939) and place, from exploring working class women’s community sanctions and the perils facing collier’s wife to the very different lifestyles of ironmasters’ wives. They also tackle the idealised images of respectable Welsh women in periodicals and the tragic reality of those who took their own lives as well as showing us the transgressive actions of suffrage rebels. They examine how women carved out space within movements such as temperance and track the fluctuating fortunes of women’s employment and domestic life from the Great War to the eve of the Second World War. This volume makes available once more a book that has become a classic in its field and a vital part of the historiography of modern Wales. This expanded edition also brings us up to date. It reveals the research and publications of the last two decades and comments upon the extent to which Wales has moved beyond being the familiar ‘land of our fathers’. Written in a lively and accessible style, it nevertheless draws upon a wealth of research and expertise and should appeal to both the academic community and to a much wider readership.