With more than 200 stunning full-colour photographs, "Classical Destinations" takes its readers on a tour of the history and geography of classical music, examining the lives of the great composers in relation to their places of birth, education, triumphs, and failures. It then turns full-circle to describe how, through their achievements, the ...
Emigrants sent by the Petworth Emigration Committee were part of a wave of rural workers in the 1830s whose immigration to Upper Canada was sponsored by English parishes and landlords. Their letters written or dictated to family and friends, leave us a rare first-hand view of the immigrant experience from a working-class perspective. Collected ...
The 1830s were years of social and political change in Britain. Rural unrest in 1830-31 spurred politicians and landlords to re-examine the roles government and individuals should play in fighting poverty. "Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada" examines how new attitudes and policies towards the English poor in this decade affected the British ...
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