"This book provides an illustrated commentary on the major linen families and the magnificent houses they lived in along the Bann Valley in the eighteenth, nine

By the late 19th century, Belfast had developed into one of the great industrial cities of the Empire. Much of this new-found wealth was based on the manufactur

Familia,which was first published in 1985, aims to provide informed writing on sources and case studies relating to that area where Irish history and genealogy

Bill Crawford had played a key role in the development of Irish economic, social and regional history for over forty years. The essays in this book are testimon

Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast from c.1830 to 1890. Using extensive primary material