There are many books which tackle the political developments in Ireland during the nineteenth century. The aim of this book is to show what life was like during the reign of Queen Victoria for those who lived in the towns and countryside during a period of momentous change. It covers a period of sixty-four years (1837-1901) when the only thing that that connected its divergent decades and generations was the fact that the same head of state presided over them. It is a social history, in so...

Your Irish Ancestors provides an entertaining insight into everyday life in Ireland during the past four centuries. Aimed primarily at the family and social historian, Ian Maxwell's highly readable guide introduces researchers to the wealth of material available in archives throughout Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth century census returns and school registers will be familiar to researchers, but others have been traditionally overlooked by all but the most experienced genea...

"The most definitive guide yet in print of researching Ulster based Ancestry" from the Irish genealogy expert and author (Discover My Past, England and Scotland).Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census returns and school registers, will be familiar to researchers, b...

This guide to Scottish ancestry records offers detailed social history on how our ancestors lived, as well as resources for family historians.Scotland's history has been influenced by many factors—the division between the Highlands and the Lowlands, the feudal system, the Reformation, the industrial revolution —that have shaped the country's past and impacted on the lives of its people. Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is a lively and accessible introductio...

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 center of the present day. Ian Maxwells book focuses on the lives of the local people both r...

The fully revised second edition of the genealogy resource praised as "a great starting point for anyone who has an interest in their Scottish roots" ( Scottish Field).This lively and accessible introduction to Scotland's long, complex and fascinating story is aimed primarily at family historians who are eager to explore and understand the world in which their ancestors lived.Ian Maxwell guides readers through the wealth of material available to re...

The second edition of Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census returns and school registers, will be familiar to researchers, but others are often overlooked by all but the most experienced of genealogists. An easy-to-use, informative guide to the comprehensive collections available at the Public Re...

'Geneve Flynn won Best poem, "You Swallowed Your Tongue", in the AHWA Australasian Shadows Award for Poetry.'We are all prey to this anthology of modern fables and dark tales.Bestiary of Blood was conceived in a moment of revelation, born from the visceral experience of watching nature's savage ballet—lions tearing into flesh, hyenas gnawing bones, sharks thrashing in crimson waters. These raw spectacles gave rise to a chilling epiphany: life and death are entwined in a gro...

Delve into the macabre depths with this dark poetry collection, where each verse weaves a tapestry of terror and introspection.Featuring K. D. Bowers, Pixie Bruner, Kathryn Burkett, Chris P. Clay, Tom Deady, Faith Dincolo, AJ Franks, Tom Guldin, Kareem Hayes, Jem Kras, KB Nelson, Amabilis O'Hara, Michael H. Payne, Brian Richards, Rhea Rose, Melissa Stauffer, Roger Terry, KT Wagner, Dianthe West, and Rae Young.Including course instructors Angela Yuriko Smith, Colleen Anderso...

To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes – luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841 40% of Irish housing was the latter). This thorough and engaging social history of Ireland offers new insights into the ways in which ordinary people lived during this dramatic moment in Ireland's history from 1800-1914.It covers wide range of aspects of everyday lives: from work on the many wealthy country estates to grinding poverty in the towns. It c...

The third terrifying volume in the award-winning anthology series of original queer horror.Like the final girl in a slasher film, the LGBTQIA community knows first-hand what it's like to fight for its survival. Beaten and bloodied after an extended chase scene through modern-day politics and the courts, we think we've triumphed and conquered our oppressors. We breathe a little easier knowing our rainbow is ascending in the distance. But—like the indestructible slasher villain—our e...

"A vibrant imagination, a striking use of metaphor and symbol, and a sure grasp of form and nuance—all these elements make this book a memorable venture into cosmic terror."—S. T. JoshiEnter a world of desolate imagination, rhizomatic beauty, and ruined cities.Oblivion in Flux, the debut prose poetry collection of Maxwell I. Gold, takes the reader on a trip along demented railways and past rhizomatic tubular dreamscapes, to find themselves transported to pl...