ISBN:
9780719098338
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Herson, John Divergent paths : Family histories of Irish emigrants in Britain 1820-1920
DDC:
305.8/9162/041
Keywords:
Immigrant families History 19th century
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Irish Social conditions 19th century
;
Irish History 19th century
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Irish ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century
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Irish ; Great Britain ; Social conditions ; 19th century
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Immigrant families ; Ireland ; History ; 19th century
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Great Britain ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; 19th century
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Electronic books
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Great Britain Emigration and immigration 19th century
;
History
Abstract:
This book is unique in adopting a family history approach to Irish immigrants in nineteenth century Britain. It shows that the family was central to the migrants' lives and identities. The techniques of family and digital history are used for the first time to reveal the paths followed by a representative body of Irish immigrant families, using the town of Stafford in the West Midlands as a case study. The book contains vital evidence about the lives of ordinary families. In the long term many intermarried with the local population, but others moved away and some simply died out. The book inve
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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