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Welsh Genealogy
Author: Bruce Durie
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-11-30
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0752479172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Welsh genealogy is usually included with its English cousin, but there are significant differences between the two, and anyone wishing to trace their Welsh ancestry will encounter peculiarities that are not covered by books on English family history. There is a separate system of archives and repositories for Wales, there are differences in civil registration and censuses, Nonconformist registers are dissimilar to those of other Churches and Welsh surnames and place names are very different to English ones. Welsh Genealogy covers all of this as well as the basic Welsh needed by family historians; estate, maritime, inheritance, education and parish records; peculiarities of law; the Courts of Great Sessions and particular patterns of migration. Written by Dr Bruce Durie, the highly respected genealogist, lecturer and author of the acclaimed Scottish Genealogy, this is the ideal book for local and family historians setting out on a journey to discover their Welsh ancestry.
Steam in South Wales
Author: Michael Hale
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780952726722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Red dragon, the national magazine of Wales. Ed. by C. Wilkins
The Railway Preservation Revolution
Author: Jonathan Brown
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2017-06-30
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1473891191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A ride on a steam train is a popular family outing. More than 100 heritage railways cater for that demand, capturing the spirit of nostalgia while preserving the engines and equipment of past days of rail travel. Their interests even extend to the modern era of 1960's - 70's diesels.Those heritage railways themselves have a long pedigree, back to 1951, when a group of enthusiasts saved the Talyllyn Railway in mid-Wales from closure. They ran this railway as volunteers, out of their love of the little trains and a desire to keep it going. Their example was followed by many more preservation societies who preserved and restored branch lines, country lines and industrial lines for our enjoyment now.Six decades have passed, and we are now beginning to realize what an impressive history the heritage railway movement has. This book traces that history, from the humble beginnings the hopes and ambitions of the pioneers on the different railway projects. There were times of failure and frustration, as some fell by the wayside, but others have made it through times of adversity to become the major heritage businesses of today.
Railway Times
The Welsh Outlook
Industrial Locomotives & Railways of Wales
Author: Gordon Edgar
Publisher: Industrial Locomotives & Railw
Published: 2020-04-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781445649443
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Primarily utilising previously unpublished photographs, Gordon Edgar explores the industrial and minor railways of Wales.
GeoHumanities
Author: Michael Dear
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-04-14
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1136883487
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the past decade, there has been a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography’s engagement with the humanities, and the humanities’ integration of place and the tools of geography into its studies. GeoHumanities maps this emerging intellectual terrain with thirty cutting edge contributions from internationally renowned scholars, architects, artists, activists, and scientists. This book explores the humanities’ rapidly expanding engagement with geography, and the multi-methodological inquiries that analyze the meanings of place, and then reconstructs those meanings to provoke new knowledge as well as the possibility of altered political practices. It is no coincidence that the geohumanities are forcefully emerging at a time of immense intellectual and social change. This book focuses on a range of topics to address urgent contemporary imperatives, such as the link between creativity and place; altered practices of spatial literacy; the increasing complexity of visual representation in art, culture, and science and the ubiquitous presence of geospatial technologies in the Information Age. GeoHumanties is essential reading for students wishing to understand the intellectual trends and forces driving scholarship and research at the intersections of geography and the humanities disciplines. These trends hold far-reaching implications for future work in these disciplines, and for understanding the changes gripping our societies and our globalizing world.
