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Pitch Publishing Ltd So Much More Than That: A British Journey of
Book SynopsisFootball's culture is complex and controversial. Debates rage over rules, transfers, wages and rich owners who prioritise income streams and elite league status. But the sport has a nobler side. Clubs become families who celebrate the good times and collectively mourn tragic events. This community culture is embedded in football and the same questions have been asked for generations. What is a fair salary? How can we help to educate and support children and families in need? Who stands up for the rights of the voiceless? This book journeys through the industrial heartlands in and around Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester to explore how migration, industry and the aspirations of working-class people and their employers influenced the early structure and culture of English and Scottish football. Often serious, sometimes funny, it reveals how ordinary people experienced life and the rise of the beautiful game in the 19th and 20th centuries, drawing on material from club archives, newspapers, personal anecdotes and military records.Trade Review"Has football lost its soul? With major clubs being snapped up by Third World dictatorships while those in the lower divisions either face financial oblivion or are left at the mercy of opportunist developers, it certainly seems so. This excellent book recalls a time before all that, when the once beautiful game was still young and rooted in its local communities, and to some extent that spirit still lives on, especially in the lower reaches of the football pyramid. Mixing family recollections with in-depth archive research the book shows how the aspirations of working-class people in the major industrial conurbations found expression through football, the sense of community and shared purpose providing a haven and comfort in hard times. It’s full of great stories, and some brilliant, evocative photos." -- Simon Evans * Choice Magazine, Pick of the Paperbacks *
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The History Press Ltd My Disappearing Uncle: Europe, War and the
Book Synopsis'That’s what happens when you listen to the stories and they start to tell themselves all over again … the more you hear, the more questions there are, answers unpeeling like the layers of an onion.’Memoir, detective work and political history come together in this vivid and moving family biography told through the stories passed down by its undaunted women.Heard on a toboggan in the Austrian mountains, in the back seat of an overloaded Mini toiling through Europe, on a coal barge in Paris … here are tales that take us from Hungary, Germany and Italy to France, England and Argentina, from the young actress in fin de siècle Vienna to the 16-year-old schoolboy who disappeared for over 50 years. My Disappearing Uncle is a journey of discovery that explores the complicated dance between the present and the past.Trade ReviewA compulsive tangle of tales touching not only on lives, loves and the longing to belong, but also the brutality of war and injustice suffered again and yet again in Europe up to the present day. -- Katya Adler * BBC Europe Editor *An astonishing book, beautifully written. Echoes of a middle-European Forsyte Saga later colliding with the brutal realities of Nazism, and what came next. -- John Carr * author of Escape from the Ghetto *Kathy Henderson has a rare ability to draw us into her immediate family and then reverse the telescope to take in the cultural and political canvas imploding into world wars, Holocaust and diaspora … Her writing is beautiful and captivating and we are carried along in her unfolding discoveries … -- Frankie Armstrong * singer, author and activist *Kathy has peeled away the layers of her family history to reveal not only a fascinating narrative but the way in which chance encounters enrich our lives. -- Meriel Schindler * author of The Lost Café Schindler *She fits these tales into a gripping … historical narrative for her own better understanding of what occurred … to allow us, her readers, a deeper insight into the complex history of central Europe through the 20th Century, its two world wars and beyond. -- Diana Quick * actor and writer **'Henderson has that rare quality of being able to draw the reader into her world, offering them a rich and cultural experience along the way.' *- The Lady‘an evocative account of a childhood in a postwar London’ - Who Do You Think You Are?
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Luath Press Ltd Scottish Roots: From gravestone to website: The
Book SynopsisFor anyone interested in researching family history, Scottish Roots is a fundamental tool in tracing your Scottish ancestry. In this excellent step-by-step guide, Alwyn James illustrates just how easy it is to commence the research process and gradually compile a meaningful family tree. James navigates the reader through the first steps of sourcing family details, making contact with distant relatives and collating new information. This easy-to-use guide explains how to begin searching for family records in New Register House, the Scottish Record Office, and local libraries and folk museums. In detailed but user-friendly terms, James provides information on the costs associated with record searching, along with useful advice on maintaining realistic expectations during your research. This new and updated edition includes information on how to utilise electronic resources and the internet to access family data - a must if conducting research from an overseas base - is essential for anyone interested in discovering their Scottish roots.Trade ReviewIndespensable.- CALEDONIA MAGAZINE If you have ever considered researching your Scottish ancestry... then this has to be the book to get you started! - DALRIADA: THE JOURNAL OF CELTIC CULTURE, HERITAGE AND TRADITIONS Mr James writes entertainingly and clearly, guiding the enquirer step by step through the Scottish archives. - FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE
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The Lilliput Press Ltd The Ancestor Album
Book SynopsisPart One of this large format book will enable you to collect information for your family tree simply by talking to people, and provides a series of beautiful fill-in charts to permanently record a family tree of up to five generations. Part Two contains information on Irish family history and includes advice for those who want to proceed further with this fascinating hobby. The Ancestor Album is the ideal book for the beginner. If you don’t want to do the family tree yourself give it to the kids and get them to do it.
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Luath Press Ltd Rooted in Scotland: Getting to the Heart of Your
Book SynopsisIt can be a confusing business, tracing one's ancestors. Many people get lost or discouraged poking through dusty archives or seeing an error message popping up on the computer screen yet again. This book is a user's guide to ancestor-hunting, picking out the best websites, archives and libraries to start from, and generally demystifying the trail. Cameron Taylor believes that the search for one's ancestors helps you to work out who you really are, and this book provides a great starting point to uncovering your past.Trade ReviewPerhaps that strong sense of Scottishness makes it easier, but fundamentally this book is a plea for restoring the role of emotion and imagination into all out dusty enquiries, and its warmth is inspiring. YOUR FAMILY TREE
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Scotland Street Press Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of
Book SynopsisElizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593) is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan intelligence agent and diplomat who served as ambassador to Scotland during the Spanish Armada crisis. It provides a fresh social, political and foreign policy insight from the perspective of a gentleman spy who took part in some of the most important events of his time. Much of the book is focused on the Anglo-Scottish geo-political relationship during the decade of 1580-1590, with its machinations and bizarre background stories. Prior to Ashby’s ambassadorial appointment, he served as a senior ‘intelligencer’ for Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth’s spymaster.Trade Review"[A] fascinating, exciting, and at times all too familiar tale of political conspiracies, double agents, personal rivalries and the perennial quest, by states and by individuals, for power and control...Tim Ashby is to be commended on this excellent tribute to his distant relative, which is also an illuminating account of life in Tudor and Stuart times."—The Edinburgh ReporterTable of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction Prologue – ‘the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors’ Part One – Early Life Chapter I - Education Chapter II - Exile Chapter III – Return to an unhappy land Part Two – On Her Majesty’s Service Chapter IV – Walsingham’s Intelligencer Chapter V – The Queen’s vacillation Chapter VI – Low Countries reconnaissance operation Chapter VII - Purgatory in the Low Countries Chapter VIII – Brigands on the Rhine Part Three – Scotland Chapter IX - Anglo-Scottish animosity Chapter X – Walsingham’s failed diplomatic mission Chapter XI - Universal miscontent in the country Chapter XII – The Armada cometh Chapter XIII – Ashby’s ambassadorship to Scotland Chapter XIV – The approach of the Spaniards causes Ashby to make offers to the King Chapter XV – A necessary play of penitence Chapter XVI – ‘... the great ship was blown in the air’ Chapter XVII – Ashby reveals to James a plot against him by his own lairds Chapter XVIII - The lairds’ open insurrection Chapter XIX – Fowler’s defamation of Ashby Chapter XX - Ashby tarries in Edinburgh while the King seeks his bride Chapter XXI – Vindication Chapter XXII – A last plot foiled before death’s gloomy shade Appendix I - Sir Robert Naunton Appendix II - Dramatis Personae Bibliography Notes
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Spector Books Seven Palms: The Thomas Mann House in Pacific
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The Crowood Press Ltd Finding Your Scottish Ancestors
Book SynopsisTrade Review" Kirsty Wilkinson's guide is recommended for anyone with Scottish relations in their tree. It is an appealing, well-produced and valuable book that provides its own comprehensive insight into sources and research techniques. " * Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine *
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University of Toronto Press The Denison Family of Toronto
Book SynopsisThe Denisons were an unusual and colourful family. For over a century – from the War of 1812 to the eve of the Depression – they were in the forefront of political, military, social, and intellectual life in Toronto. They took their duties to king and country seriously, serving in public and military office, and established family colonies on their estates in Toronto. As the story of the family unfolds, it reveals the story of Toronto – the spirit of the times, the turbulence of politics, and the exciting growth of a new city.The Denison Family of Toronto focuses on George Denison III (1839-1925), military historian, senior police magistrate, and supporter of the Canada First and Imperial Federation movements. His story proves that Canada has produced some memorable individuals whose activities have for too long been obscured by historians' preoccupation with grander themes. But more than that, the history of the Denisons' quarrel with the United States a
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Stanford University Press Practicing Kinship
Book SynopsisPresenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarship on the Chinese lineage. It explores the historical development of kinship in the villages of the Fuzhou region of southeastern Fujian province.Trade Review"This is an important book, based on painstaking research, which addresses important issues in the field of Chinese social and cultural history. . . . The author revisits many of the questions raised by Maurice Freedman in his pathbreaking work on Chinese lineage society in the 1950s and 1960s. . . . In some ways, Szonyi is doing here for the Fujian what David Faure, Helen Siu, and their team have done for the Pearl River delta in Guang-dong—that is, writing theoretically sophisticated local histories based on thoroughgoing command of all local sources and frequently crossing the (largely artificial) frontier between history and anthropology." -- David Ownby * University of Montreal *"Szonyi . . . .uses a wide range of sources, textual and oral, and varied research methodologies to construct a local history rich in detail and theoretical sophistication. Practicing Kinship is an important contribution not only to our understanding of the Fuzhou area but to our understanding of kinship practice and its variable, flexible nature. The book is recommended for upper-level undergraguates, graduates, and faculty alike." -- History: Reviews of New Books"Szonyi has written an impressive study of patrilineal kinship organization on Nantai Island, primarily during the Ming and Qing periods. The book is solidly based on a wide array of sources, including genealogies, local gazetteers, land deeds, oral history, and personal observation of contemporary ritual performance. . . . This important study is worthy of serious consideration by those in the humanities and the social sciences." -- CHOICE"...Szonyi's work displays an analytical rigour and a precision of argumentation that makes it a model of historical scholarship." -- Histoire Sociale"This study makes an invaluable contribution to the study of a region as well as the general history of Chinese society in the Ming Qing period, adding another regional variation to the Pearl delta studied by David Faure and Helen Siu. This book should be on the reading list of every China scholar and graduate seminar." -- Ming Studies"Based upon remarkable research in local gazetteers, genealogies and extensive fieldwork, Practicing Kinship is a rich and insightful analysis of the lived experience of lineage organization in late imperial China." -- Journal of Asian History
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University of Toronto Press The Argentaye Tract
Book SynopsisThe Argentaye Tract, writing some time in the early fifteenth century, is a little-known heraldic treatise of which there appears to be only one extant copy. In this book, the first scholarly edition of any such treatise, Alan Manning presents the original text with extensive notes elucidating difficult passages and points of interest. The text is preceded by an introduction dealing with the present state of heraldic studies and with the history of heraldic treatises in England and France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It also gives a detailed description of the Argentaye tract's date, provenance, possible author, main divisions, social and psychological context, language, and influence. Manning shows that, by the middle of the fifteenth century, a classical pattern had been developed and that all subsequent treatises were modelled on it. The Argentaye tract, however, represents an original departure from this classic model, certain sections of which it reorganized
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Scotland's Historic Heraldry
Book SynopsisIllustrated guide to Scottish medieval heraldry, the first to link heraldry to major events in Scottish history and to the families that took part in them. Winner of the Saltire Society's 2007 History Book Award Scottish heraldry can be said to begin in the mid-twelfth century, when material of Scottish interest first appears in a number of English and Continental rolls-of-arms, and as the years passed it developed an increasing complexity and sophistication, establishing itself as a subject in its own right in the seventeenth century with the appearance of the Lyon register. This volume is the first to link heraldry to major events in Scottish history and to the families that took part in them. It uses a wide range of sources to chart its growth, some of which have been rarely explored previously, thus bringing much new material into the corpus of Scottish heraldry. It also covers the major families and clans - Stewarts, Douglas, Murrays, Hamiltons, Gordons and MacDonalds - and examines a host of other issues, both technical and historical. Throughout it is richly illustrated with some two hundred chart pedigrees and fully-coloured coats-of-arms.Trade ReviewA mine of stimulating heraldic information which should be brought into the mainstream of historical research. * THE COAT OF ARMS *Makes a weighty contribution to its subject [and] will no doubt prove to be a valuable addition to research collections and libraries and will bear consulting on a variety of issues. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW *This book is long awaited and should be on your bookshelf. * TAK TENT *A pioneering fusion of history, heraldry and genealogy, which makes it innovative, interesting and important. [...] It is a cornucopia of delights for the heraldist, the genealogist and the historian. It is undoubtedly the most important work in the field of Scots heraldry to be published in the last 300 years. [...] This mammoth book deserves the attention of all those interested in Scottish heraldry. Its breadth is amazing. * THE SCOTTISH GENEALOGIST *A useful source of information on the heraldry of many families. * FINDS RESEARCH GROUP NEWSLETTER *Table of ContentsOrigin, Rules and Language of Heraldry Early Scottish Heraldry Earldoms and Territorial Lordships The Great Cause of 1291-92: the Competitors The Ragman Roll Early Rolls of Arms The Declaration of Arbroath Marshalling of Arms Armoriaux Universelles: Gelre and Bellenville The Scots Roll and its Contemporaries Parliamentary Lords and Masters Sons and Heirs, Sons Legitimate and Otherwise Armorial of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount The Hague Roll Organisation by Charge: the Scottish Ordinary Lairds and Lands: Tayside and Grampian Lairds and Lands: the Heartlands of Scotland Lairds and Lands: Tayside and Grampian Lairds and Lands: Highlands and Islands Scots Abroad The Union of the Crowns
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours System, 1660-1760
Book SynopsisA detailed analysis of the political, social and cultural aspects of the British orders of knighthood in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. `Sheds considerable new light on the nature, development and functions of the orders in a key phase of their history, and goes a long way to explaining how such archaic institutions could flourish in a culture that is commonly thought anti-traditional and especially hostile to the "middle ages"'. Professor JONATHAN BOULTON, University of Notre Dame. This is the first comprehensive study to set the British orders of knighthood properly into the context of the honours system - by analysing their political, social and cultural functions from the Restoration of the monarchy to the end of George II's reign. It examines the revival of the Order of the Garter and the proposalsto establish the Orders of the Royal Oak and the Esquires of the Martyred King at the Restoration, the foundation [1687] and the revival [1703-4] of the Order of the Thistle as well as the foundation of the Order of the Bath [1725]. It establishes just how central a part the orders played in the British high political life and its comprehensive and multidimensional approach carefully contrasts the idealistic discourse of virtue and honour to the real workings of the honours system; it also makes the case for the 'Chivalric Enlightenment'. The 'orders over the water', the Garter and the Thistle conferred by the Jacobite claimants, are discussed for the first time in the context of the established British honours system. Overall, the comparison between the socially very restricted British and the increasingly meritocratic Continental orders highlights the isolation of the British honours system from the European tendencies.Trade ReviewThis is an extraordinarily detailed and deeply researched account of a much neglected subject. * HISTORICAL JOURNAL *Will be an invaluable source of reference for decades to come. * JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY *A lavishly illustrated and detailed survey. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *The detail the author goes in to is simply astonishing. [...] An interesting account of the revival of these three great orders [Orders of the Garter, Thistle and Bath] which had fallen into a kind of desuetude before the period in question. * MEDAL NEWS *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION THE IDEAS OF THE HONOURS TWO REVIVALS, TWO FOUNDATIONS PATTERNS OF APPOINTMENTS - AND DISAPPOINTMENTS THE DYNASTIC AND DIPLOMATIC ROLE OF THE ORDERS THE ADMINISTRATION, THE OFFICE-HOLDERS AND THE RELIGIOUS ASPECTS THE 'SYMBOLIC CAPITAL' OF THE ORDERS CONCLUSION APPENDICES BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Woodfield Publishing The Chutes of the Vyne: An Illustrated History of the Chute Family and Their 300 Year Connection with Stately Home The Vyne at Basingstoke in Hampshire
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Prepare to Publish Ltd Family History Record Book: An 8-generation family tree workbook to record your research (spiral-bound desk edition)
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Riverside Publishing Solutions Ltd The Hidden Prince: The Non-Royal ROYAL
Book SynopsisMy recollection of one of the proudest days of my life. At the Meardy Farm, I stood next to my mother and my dad Arthur while she rang France to speak to the Duke of Windsor. The change in my mothers voice from this miserable woman in her sixties, who would moan and groan regardless about life, into a young girl blushing at the sound of his voice. "Hello David, its Rose," she sounded so gentle. I looked at Arthur and he did not look happy with mum, hearing her conversation, watching her acting in this way. I stood waiting nervously, what would I say to this man? A Prince, a King, and now the Duke of Windsor, but always my father. Then mum passed me the telephone, I put it against my ear and stammered. "Hello, it's Roy, Roy Albert." The telephone went silent for a few moments, then a voice on the end of the line replied, "Hello Roy Albert, this is Edward ..."
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