Old Scottish Customs, Local and General
Author : Ellen Emma Guthrie
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Scotland
ISBN :
Author : Ellen Emma Guthrie
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Scotland
ISBN :
Author : Margaret Bennett
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : 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.
Author : John Smith & Sons
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
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Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher :
Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
ISBN :
Author : Ur. B. Cook
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 1904
Category :
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Author : Public Library of New South Wales
Publisher :
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Australia
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Author : Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 1877
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher :
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Libraries
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Author : Faculty of Procurators in Glascow. Library
Publisher :
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Angela V John
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : 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.