In the 19th century, more so than now, work shaped people's lives. The nature and variety of their labor governed where and how they lived. The main theme of this wide-ranging analytical narrative is how the lives of the working class changed in Britain between 1830 and 1914. Few groups of workers were unaffected by the transformation of the economy; for most, the impact was profound. In a study that deploys a range of primary material and takes account of recent historical writings, the authors examine the nature of the changes that took place and their consequences. The treatment is thematic, while ensuring that a clear account is given of how workers' economic, social, and cultural lives were subject to change.

Labour in British Society, 1830-1914 (Social History in Perspective)

Business & Money

Martin, David E.

MacRaild, Donald M.

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Ireland was unique among European countries in having a smaller population at the beginning of the 20th century than it had 100 years previously. This demographic decline was prompted by a series of social and economic factors, and emigration became so common that by 1891 forty percent of all the world's Irish-born were living outside Ireland. In this book, Donald MacRaild studies the Irish who settled in Britain and the often adverse reactions to them. From 1750, as Ireland became an increasingly full part of the United Kingdom, to the final parting of the ways in 1922 when the Irish Free State was formed, the often troubled relationship between Ireland and Britain meant that the sheer weight of Irish immigration created tensions far more severe than those generated by other immigrants.

Irish Migrants in Modern Britain (Social History in Perspective)

History

Europe

Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922 (Social History in Perspective)

Until the advent of New Commonwealth migration in the 1950s, the Irish were by far the largest ethnic minority in Britain. This study focuses on the most important phase of Irish migration, providing an analytical discussion of why and how the Irish settled in such numbers. It examines key aspects of the social, religious and political worlds of these migrants and explains why they were so often the victims of native hostility. The book avoids the famine centred and big city focus of many studies and demonstrates the long run chronology and wide ranging geography of this important migration.

Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922

Palgrave HE UK

Red Globe Press

This book examines the rapid development of social history over the past 100 years, exploring the links between historical method, social theory and the changing nature of what interests us about the past. Providing a route map for general readers and students alike, the book charts diverse territories, from the rise of social history from poor relation to economic history and the emergence of Annales and Marxist perspectives to the recent challenges presented by post-structuralism and cultural history.

Social Theory and Social History (Theory and History, 4)

Historical Study & Educational Resources

A major study of Catholic and Protestant Irish in an important but neglected center of historic Irish settlement where communal violence and Irish-related antipathy bore the hallmarks of the Liverpool and Glasgow experiences."Culture, Conflict and Migration... deserves to be read as an important contribution to the growing literature on the Irish in Britain."Irish Studies Review

Culture, Conflict and Migration: The Irish in Victorian Cumbria

Liverpool University Press

This extensive resource offers a clearly-presented and comprehensive overview of the dynamic field of historical enquiry. Divided into three parts—historiography, methodology, and study skills—this guide discusses both the philosophy and practice of history and provides useful information on how to study the subject more effectively. This newly revised edition includes insight into current trends, a new section on TV, media and popular history, and an expanded study skills section covering oral presentations, group work, and using the Internet for research.

Studying History (Palgrave Study Guides)

BLACK, JEREMY

The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. More than a million others fled the stricken land between 1845 and 1851. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap. It is based on a large volume of reports on social conditions in the Irish localities, emanating from within those localities, that has never been used systematically by historians. It bears the compelling title of the ‘Death Census’. Most historians are simply unaware of its existence. The outstanding feature of the Death Census is that it was authored by local clergymen who lived among the people they served and were intimately involved with their lives. This book brings the Death Census together in composite form for the first time and provides a detailed examination of its contents. The result is new understanding of the Great Famine as it was experienced on the ground.

The Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine (Anthem Irish Studies, 1)

Kennedy, Liam

Gurrin, Brian

Darwen, Lewis

Anthem Press

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Labour in British Society, 1830-1914 (Social History in Perspective)

Irish Migrants in Modern Britain (Social History in Perspective)

Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922

Labour in British Society, 1830-1914 (Social History in Perspective)

Social Theory and Social History (Theory and History, 4)

Culture, Conflict and Migration: The Irish in Victorian Cumbria

Studying History (Palgrave Study Guides)

The Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine (Anthem Irish Studies, 1)