In search of a better life
Subtitle: British and Irish migration
By: edited by Graham Davis
Contributors: Fripp, John, 1940-
Publisher: Stroud, Gloucestershire; The History Press
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780752459547
Subjects: Emigration and immigration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: People on the move : mobility in Victorian Dorset / John Fripp; title: Irish railway workers & soldiers in Wiltshire / Lynda Brown; title: Politicians, philanthropists & the people : early emigration from Somerset & Dorset to Australia / Celia Martin; title: "Great Britain of the South" : the Irish in Canterbury, New Zealand / Sara Moppett; title: From Sligo to St John's : the Gore-Booth assisted emigration scheme, 1847 / Emily Slinger; title: James Hack Tuke & assisted emigration from the west of Ireland in the 1880s / Tessa English; title: Irish hard-rock miners in Ireland, Britain & the United States / Graham Davis & Matthew Goulding; title: Reconstructed memory : Irish emigrant letters  from the Americas / Graham Davis.