Download or read book Scotland During the Plantation of Ulster written by David Dobson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is designed as an aid to family historians researching their origins in Ayrshire"--P. v.
Download or read book Dumfries and Galloway written by Edward J. Cowan and published by John Donald Publishers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dumfries and Galloway is one of the least-known regions of Scotland. Despite memories and traditions to match those of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, it has been seriously understudied. This innovative, ground-breaking study looks mainly at the everyday lives and culture of people in this region during a period of profound agricultural, industrial and demographic change. In doing so, it uncovers new information about a wide range of topics in local history, including food, festivals and folklore, music, mining, the development of towns and villages, population, smuggling, the experience of migration, and the question of identity. All of the contributors to the book are specialists in their fields and have an in-depth knowledge of the region through life and work.
Download or read book Dumfries and Galloway written by Edward J. Cowan and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dumfries and Galloway is one of the least-known regions of Scotland. Despite memories and traditions to match those of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, it has been seriously understudied. This innovative, ground-breaking study looks mainly at the everyday lives and culture of people in this region during a period of profound agricultural, industrial and demographic change. In doing so, it uncovers new information about a wide range of topics in local history, including food, festivals and folklore, music, mining, the development of towns and villages, population, smuggling, the experience of migration, and the question of identity. All of the contributors to the book are specialists in their fields and have an in-depth knowledge of the region through life and work.
Download or read book A History of Dumfries and Galloway written by Sir Herbert Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dumfries Galloway Picturing Scotland written by Colin Nutt and published by Picturing Scotland. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dumfries and Galloway written by Dumfries and Galloway Tourist Board and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dumfries written by James Urquhart and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dumfries and Galloway written by John Gifford and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1996 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume in the Buildings of Scotland series, following in the footsteps of Lothian, Edinburgh, this book looks at the buildings of Dumfries and Galloway.
Download or read book Dumfries and Galloway written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New, and the only detailed colour atlas of Dumfries and Galloway that gives comprehensive coverage of the region from Stranraer in the west to Gretna in the east. No other atlas shows every street in Dumfries and Galloway.The mapping is based on Ordnance Survey data and gives the user complete coverage of all urban and rural areas. The mapping is at a scale of 134 inches to 1 mile (1 1/3 inches to 1 mile in the pocket edition) with larger scale mapping of 3 1/2 inches to 1 mile (2 2/3 inches to 1 mile in the pocket edition) for the towns of Annan, Castle Douglas, Dalbeattie, Dumfries, Gretna, Kirkcudbright, Lockerbie, Lochmaben, Moffat, New Galloway, Newton Stewart, St John's Town of Dalry, Sanquhar, Stranraer and Wigtown. The mapping is also complete with postcode boundaries.The atlas is ideally suited for both business and leisure use. There is a route-planning map at the front of the atlas. The main maps show every named road, street and lane clearly with through-routes highlighted. School locations are marked and emergency services, hospitals, police stations, car parks and rail and bus station locations are all featured. There is a comprehensive index of street names and postcodes including schools, industrial estates, hospitals, sports centres, etc. These are highlighted in red.Main map scale: 1.3 inches to 1 mile and 2.6 inches to 1 mile
Download or read book Dumfries and Galloway Curiosities written by David Carroll and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with its rich history and spectacular scenery, Dumfries and Galloway is home to a great many curious and unusual buildings, objects and landscape features that have survived the centuries. This well-illustrated book is a guide to 100 of these remarkable sights, including Scotland’s highest village, the world’s narrowest hotel, and even the statue of a rhinoceros on top of a bus shelter. Dumfries & Galloway Curiosities will encourage readers to explore this area of south-west Scotland and perhaps make their own curious discoveries.
Download or read book A History of Dumfries and Galloway written by Sir Herbert Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dumfries Galloway Slow Travel written by Donald Greig and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dumfries and Galloway is an area of rural charm and striking landscapes, where a slower pace of living and travelling comes naturally. The first comprehensive guidebook to the area, Bradt's Slow Travel Dumfries and Galloway covers the region in depth, from Eskdale to Scotland's southern tip at the Mull of Galloway, via Annandale, Nithsdale, Dumfries, The Stewartry, The Machars and Moors, and the Rhins. Lively descriptions, historical anecdotes and enthusiastic writing combine with hand-picked accommodation recommendations to reveal one of Scotland's best kept secrets. With the local tourist board halfway through an ambitious six-year plan, the area's profile is on the up. Go now, before the secret is out.
Download or read book History of the Lands and Their Owners in Galloway written by Peter Handyside M'Kerlie and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Dumfries and Galloway 1900 written by Herbert Eustace Maxwell of Monreith and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of two different objects, it seems to me, ought to be kept in view in compiling a summary of the history of any province. On the one hand, a writer may devote himself to collecting and repeating the traditions lingering among the people, and transcribing events from the narratives of former chroniclers, without making too searching inquiry into the evidence on which they rest. On the other hand, he may venture to reject such local lore as will not endure critical analysis, and, working in the light of the research which during the last two centuries has been so patiently and fruitfully directed on the records of the past, apply himself to sift what is authentic from what rests only on hearsay, and confine himself to preparing what shall be a concise and trustworthy, even though it may be a dry, narrative of such events as are capable of historic proof. It is the latter of these objects that I have set before me.The time is not unfitting for an impartial and dispassionate review of the course of events and social change in Dumfriesshire and Galloway, concise enough to be within reach of those connected with the south-west, conscientious enough to be relied on as a text-book for easy reference, and leaving undisturbed, save where necessity arises for dispelling fallacy, the accumulations of fable and tradition which have gathered over the past. The ballad literature of the south-west is so profuse and picturesque, and so closely woven into the true story of our country, that I have found it difficult to refrain from quoting it at greater length than I have done. But to have indulged in wide excursions in the field so thoroughly worked by Allan Cunning ham, Sir Walter Scott, and the late Professor Veitch, would have swelled the present work far beyond its prescribed scope and size. The narrative has not been brought beyond the close of the eighteenth century, because no one requiring information about events since that time need be at any loss for authoritative records.The changes during the present century have, indeed, been sweeping and rapid, but they have not been violent, and to trace their course would take a great part of the space which I have thought it better economy to devote to those centuries where the light is less full and more conflicting. But in spite of the alteration brought about in the outward aspect of the country by improved agriculture and the development of railways, and in the social condition of its inhabitants by education and by a franchise repeatedly extended, the south western counties of Scotland have not lost all traces of earlier ages. Witness to the continuity of its ethnology is borne by the prevalence among the population of the old Gaelic or Pictish nomenclature, mixed with a strong leaven of Anglo-Saxon and some traces of Scandinavian names. - From the introduction.
Download or read book General View of the Agriculture of the County of Dumfries written by Bryce Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dumfries and Galloway written by and published by . This book was released on 1950* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where the Whaups are Crying written by Innes F. Macleod and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of Scottish writers and writing includes work by John Buchan, Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, James Boswell, Daniel Defoe, John Welsley, J.M. Barrie, and John Keats. Also included are a range of anecdotes and non fiction concerning the area.
