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Researching Down Ancestors

A Practical Guide for the Family and Local Historian

By: Ian Maxwell

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Researching Down Ancestors

A Practical Guide for the Family and Local Historian

By: Ian Maxwell

Of all the nine counties of Ulster, none can claim a more cosmopolitan and fascinating history than Down. In ancient times it formed part of the ancient kingdom of the Ulaid; the Dal Fiatach, the most important of the groupings of tribes of Ulaid, came to dominate the east of the county with their capital at Downpatrick. Vikings came to raid and then settled along the coast. Later the Normans seized control of the Dal Fiatach kingdom constructing castles, monasteries and abbeys before becoming 'hibernicised'. In the seventeenth century, thousands of Scottish and English settlers poured into Down, establishing themselves in the north and east of the county. Meanwhile the native Irish were able to preserve their way of life in south Down where their close-knit communities were sufficiently well organised under their traditional leaders to co-exist with the newcomers. The distribution of surnames in the couty provides lasting evidence of its complex history. The purpose of this book is to provide a practical guide for the family historian searching for ancestors in County Down. It is true that many records have been lost, including those in the destruction of the Public Record Office in Dublin in 1922. However, much has survived to aid the dedicated family or local historian. Moreover, it has become increasingly accessible in the detailed catalogues and user-friendly searching aids in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Because of the breadth of the material covered, this book will appeal both to the experienced researcher and to the novice. Of particular value are the detailed listings of the records of landed estates, churches and schools, as well as the appendices listing townlands and unofficial place-names for the county.

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Ulster Historical Foundation

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1903688019

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History of Technology Volume 25

By: Ian Inkster

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History of Technology Volume 25

By: Ian Inkster

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - showing how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135001902X

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Offa's Dyke

Landscape and Hegemony in Eighth Century Britain

By: Keith Ray,Ian Bapty

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Offa's Dyke

Landscape and Hegemony in Eighth Century Britain

By: Keith Ray,Ian Bapty

The massive ancient earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popular contemporary national walking trails remains an enigma. Despite over a century of study, we still do not fully understand how or why Britain's largest linear monument was built, and in recent years, the views of those who have studied the Dyke have diverged even as to such basic questions as its physical extent and date of construction. This book provides a fresh perspective on the creation of Offa's Dyke arising from over a decade of study and of conservation practice by its two authors. It also provides a new appreciation of the specifically Mercian and English political context of its construction. The authors first summarise what is known about the Dyke from archaeology and history and review the debates surrounding its form and purpose. They then set out a systematic approach to understanding the design and construction of the massive linear bank and ditch that has come to stand proxy for the Anglo-Welsh border. What can currently be deduced about the build qualities of the Dyke are then summarised from the authors' recent (and newly intricate) study of details of its localised form and construction and its landscape setting. The authors meanwhile also explain Offa's Dyke as an instrument of late 8th-century Mercian statecraft and the imperial ambitions of Offa himself.

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Windgather Press

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1909686212

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9781909686212

Hoax: A History of Deception

5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies

By: Ian Tattersall,Peter Névraumont

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Hoax: A History of Deception

5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies

By: Ian Tattersall,Peter Névraumont

An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Néaumont to tell this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece; Arctic explorers seek an entrance into a hollow Earth; a Shakespeare tragedy is "rediscovered"; a financial scheme inspires Charles Ponzi; a spirit photographer snaps Abraham Lincoln's ghost; people can survive ingesting only air and sunshine; Edgar Allen Poe is the forefather of fake news; and the first human was not only British but played cricket. Told chronologically, HOAX begins with the first documented announcement of the end of the world in 2800 BC and winds its way through controversial tales such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Shroud of Turin, past proven fakes such as the Thomas Jefferson's ancient wine and the Davenport Tablets built by a lost race, and explores bald-faced lies in the worlds of art, science, literature, journalism, and finance.

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Black Dog & Leventhal

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0316503703

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9780316503709

Media Relations of the Anti-War Movement

The Battle for Hearts and Minds

By: Ian Taylor

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Media Relations of the Anti-War Movement

The Battle for Hearts and Minds

By: Ian Taylor

In this book, Ian Taylor examines how a social movement, the anti-Iraq War movement in the UK, engaged with the media as a part of their campaigning against the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Moving beyond content analysis to draw upon interviews with locally based journalists and activists, Taylor examines how locally based anti-war groups engaged with their local press, as well as how those groups were reported on by the local press in their respective areas. In the process of exploring these ideas, the book takes on questions like: How did local journalists assess the legitimacy of the anti-war movement? How, why, and to what extent did opponents of the war pursue local press coverage? What bearing did the social composition of the movement have on the way they set about engaging with the media? How did the local press handle the controversy surrounding opposition to military action against Iraq? Media Relations of the Anti-War Movement makes a unique contribution to research on the interactions between social movements and the media and plugs a major gap in the literature on the Iraq War and the media.

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Taylor & Francis

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1315525682

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9781315525686

Globalizing Education, Educating the Local

How Method Made Us Mad

By: Ian Stronach

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Globalizing Education, Educating the Local

How Method Made Us Mad

By: Ian Stronach

Provides a critical account of how contemporary educational knowledge is put together and presented in the global knowledge economy, redefining the actors in the education process, including principally the child, pupil, and learner, but also the teacher, parent, inspector and policy-maker.

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Routledge

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1135179573

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9781135179571

The Lymphoid Neoplasms 3ed

By: Ian Magrath

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The Lymphoid Neoplasms 3ed

By: Ian Magrath

This comprehensive and authoritative reference covers all aspects of the group of disorders collectively known as the lymphoid neoplasms. The reader is taken through a description of its normal cellular origins and the molecular genetic abnormalities that can lead to this group of conditions, a section of the book that has been considerably strengt

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CRC Press

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1444113224

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9781444113228

Music and the Cognitive Sciences 1990

By: Ian Cross

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Music and the Cognitive Sciences 1990

By: Ian Cross

This issue comprises the twenty-five papers presented at the Second Music and the Cognitive Sciences conference held at Cambridge University in 1990.

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Routledge

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1135305773

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Birds of British Columbia, Volume 3

Passerines - Flycatchers through Vireos

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall,G. E. John Smith

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Birds of British Columbia, Volume 3

Passerines - Flycatchers through Vireos

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall,G. E. John Smith

British Columbia has one of the richest assemblages of bird species in the world. The four volumes of The Birds of British Columbia provide unprecedented coverage of this region's birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns of each of the 472 species of birds. This third volume, covering the first half of the passerines, builds on the authoritative format of the previous bestselling volumes. It contains 89 species, including common ones such as swallows, jays, crows, wrens, thrushes, and starlings. The text is supported by hundreds of full-colour pictures, including unique habitat photographs, detailed distribution maps, and beautiful illustrations of the birds, their nests, eggs, and young. The Birds of British Columbia is a complete reference work for bird-watchers, ornithologists, and naturalists who want in-depth information on the province's regularly occurring and rare birds.

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UBC Press

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0774844396

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9780774844390

Laboratory Production of Cattle Embryos

By: Ian Gordon

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Laboratory Production of Cattle Embryos

By: Ian Gordon

3000 new references added since the first editionGives information necessary to produce embryos totally through in vitro techniques Shows commercial applications of embryo and oocyte researchCattle remain at the forefront of many new developments in reproductive technology and what can be done for the cow today will later be applicable to other farm livestock and perhaps humans. This new edition reviews the considerable advances and issues in embryo production technology, based on reports since the first edition in 1994. This is a must have volume for those who own the first edition, and in itself an incredibly informative text.

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CABI

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0851998488

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9780851998480

John Clare Society Journal, 28 (2009)

By: Ian Waites,Alan Moore,Adam White,Simon J. White,Sarah Houghton-Walker,Eric Robinson,Robert Heyes,Donna Landry,Roy Vickery,M. M. Mahood,Essaka Joshua,Sam Ward

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John Clare Society Journal, 28 (2009)

By: Ian Waites,Alan Moore,Adam White,Simon J. White,Sarah Houghton-Walker,Eric Robinson,Robert Heyes,Donna Landry,Roy Vickery,M. M. Mahood,Essaka Joshua,Sam Ward

The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.

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John Clare Society

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0953899594

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The Neurology of AIDS

By: Howard E. Gendelman, MD,Igor Grant, MD,Ian Paul Everall, MD, PhD,Howard S. Fox, MD, PhD,Harris A. Gelbard, MD, PhD,Stuart A. Lipton, MD, PhD,Susan Swindells, MBBS

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The Neurology of AIDS

By: Howard E. Gendelman, MD,Igor Grant, MD,Ian Paul Everall, MD, PhD,Howard S. Fox, MD, PhD,Harris A. Gelbard, MD, PhD,Stuart A. Lipton, MD, PhD,Susan Swindells, MBBS

From basic science to clinical care, to epidemiological disease patters, The Neurology of AIDS is the only complete textbook available on AIDS neurology and the only one comprehensive enough to stand alone in each segment of study in brain disorders affected by the human immunodeficiency virus. It is an indispensable resource for students, resident physicians, practicing physicians, and for researchers and experts in the HIV/AIDS field. Oxford Clinical Neuroscience is a comprehensive, cross-searchable collection of resources offering quick and easy access to eleven of Oxford University Press's prestigious neuroscience texts. Joining Oxford Medicine Online these resources offer students, specialists and clinical researchers the best quality content in an easy-to-access format.

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Oxford University Press

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0199875553

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Book's by Ian K. Robinson

Researching Down Ancestors

Researching Down Ancestors

History of Technology Volume 25

History of Technology Volume 25

Offa's Dyke

Offa's Dyke

Hoax: A History of Deception

Hoax: A History of Deception

Media Relations of the Anti-War Movement

Media Relations of the Anti-War Movement

Globalizing Education, Educating the Local

Globalizing Education, Educating the Local

The Lymphoid Neoplasms 3ed

The Lymphoid Neoplasms 3ed

Music and the Cognitive Sciences 1990

Music and the Cognitive Sciences 1990

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 3

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 3

Laboratory Production of Cattle Embryos

Laboratory Production of Cattle Embryos

John Clare Society Journal, 28 (2009)

John Clare Society Journal, 28 (2009)

The Neurology of AIDS

The Neurology of AIDS

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