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Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours
Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors is a volume in the series of city
ancestral guides published by Pen & Sword for readers and
researchers who want to find out about life in Glasgow in the past
and to know where the key sources for its history can be found. In
vivid detail it describes the rise of Glasgow through tobacco,
shipping, manufacturing and trade from a minor cathedral town to
the cosmopolitan centre of the present day. Ian Maxwell's book
focuses on the lives of the local people both rich and poor and on
their experience as Glasgow developed around them. It looks at
their living conditions, at health and the ravages of disease, at
the influence of religion and migration and education. It is the
story of the Irish and Highland migrants, Quakers, Jews, Irish,
Italians, and more recently people from the Caribbean, South-Asia
and China who have made Glasgow their home. A wealth of information
on the city and its people is available, and Glasgow Ancestors is
an essential guide for anyone researching its history or the life
of an individual ancestor. institutions, clubs, societies and
schools.
Choosing a name for your baby is really exciting - it can also feel
like a huge decision that you're terrified of getting wrong! Never
fear: we bring you the very latest news, trends and inspiration in
Baby Names 2023. We've selected thousands for you to choose from,
including the UK's favourites (spoiler alert: we're still big fans
of Oliver and Olivia) and more left-field options (welcome to
babies Blousie, Now and Zico). Inspiration from the roaring
twenties - think Bessie, Warner and Gene. Practical tips on
choosing a name and dealing with family expectations (and other
people's opinions). Predictions on next year's hottest names: think
nature-inspired treasures like Fern, River and Wren.
A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the most important legal
institutions of the Middle Ages. The wars waged by the English in
France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries led to the
need for judicial agencies which could deal with disputes that
arose on land and sea, beyond the reach of indigenous laws. This
led to the jurisdictional development of the Courts of Chivalry and
Admiralty, presiding over respectively heraldic and maritime
disputes. They were thus of considerable importance in the Middle
Ages; but they have attracted comparatively little scholarly
attention. The essays here examine their officers, proceedings and
the wider cultural and political context in which they had
jurisdiction and operated in later medieval Western Europe. They
reveal similarities in personnel, institutions and outlook, as well
as in the issues confronting rulers in territories across Europe.
They also demonstrate how assertions of sovereignty and challenges
to judicial competence were inextricably linked to complex
political agendas; and that both military and maritime law were
international in reach because they were underpinned by
trans-national customs and the principles and procedures of
Continental civil law. Combininglaw with military and maritime
history, and discussing the art and material culture of chivalric
disputes as well as their associated heraldry, the volume provides
fresh new insights into an important area of medieval life and
culture. ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal
Palaces; NIGEL RAMSAY is Honorary Senior Research Associate in the
Department of History at University College London. Contributors:
Andrew Ayton, Richard Barber, John Ford, Laurent Hablot, Thomas K.
Heeboll-Holm, Julian Luxford, Ralph Moffat, Philip Morgan, Bertrand
Schnerb, Anne F. Sutton, Lorenzo Tanzini.
Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex
Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of
family trauma, and to end a cycle of estrangement that had endured
for nearly a century. His search takes him across the troubled,
enigmatic land of his birth. In Ukraine he tracks down his paternal
grandfather - most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph
Stalin - to reckon with the ways in which decades of Soviet
totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his
family. He returns to Lithuania, his Jewish mother's home, to
revisit the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious
anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for, learning that
the boundary between history and biography is often fragile and
indistinct. And he visits his birthplace, Moscow, where his
glamorous grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet
ministers' wives, his mother dosed dissidents at a psychiatric
hospital, and his father made a living by selling black-market jazz
and rock records. Finally, Halberstadt explores his own story: that
of a fatherless immigrant who arrived in America, to a housing
project in Queens, New York, as a ten-year-old boy struggling with
identity, feelings of rootlessness and a yearning for home. He
comes to learn that he was merely the latest in a lineage of sons
who grew up alone, separated from their fathers by the tides of
politics and history. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his
family's formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational
transmission of fear, suspicion, melancholy, and rage. And he comes
to realize something more: nations, like people, possess formative
traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their
citizens' lives.
The German bestseller - a powerful and deeply affecting graphic
memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home Winner
of Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Winner of Book
Illustration prize at the V&A Illustration Awards Winner of the
The National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Winner of
the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
for Political Writing Shortlisted for the Longman History Today
Prize One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018' The
New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 Nora Krug grew up as a
second-generation German after the end of the Second World War,
struggling with a profound ambivalence towards her country's recent
past. Travelling as a teenager, her accent alone evoked raw
emotions in the people she met, an anger she understood, and
shared. Seventeen years after leaving Germany for the US, Nora Krug
decided she couldn't know who she was without confronting where
she'd come from. In Heimat, she documents her journey investigating
the lives of her family members under the Nazi regime, visually
charting her way back to a country still tainted by war.
Beautifully illustrated and lyrically told, Heimat is a powerful
meditation on the search for cultural identity, and the meaning of
history and home.
It's said a picture is worth a thousand words, but if you really
want to see into the lives of your British Isles ancestors, find
them in the census. This book will show you how. Accredited
Genealogist Echo King leads you step-by-step through these
essential records and explains everything from how British
census-taking began to how you can use the census to uncover
details that will enrich your family story. Whether you are new to
family history or you are a seasoned veteran, Finding Answers in
British Isles Census Records has something for you.
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