Ruled by the seasons
Hillis, Peter and Calderhead, Drew, Arts and Humanities Research Council (Funder) , ed. (2009) Ruled by the seasons. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
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Multimedia CD ROM allowing pupils to investigate life in rural Scotland in the nineteenth century. CD-ROM focusing on industrialisation, urbanisation and migration providing the historical context for life in rural Scotland under radical transformation in the nineteenth century.Uses the Journal kept between 1879 and 1892 by James Wilson, a farmer in Banffshire, north-east Scotland, to illustrate life in rural society. Ruled by the Seasons contains the 1881 census for Banffshire allowing students to trace the people and places described by James Wilson, analyse socio-economic profiles of farms, villages and towns while also studying their local area.
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Item type: Other ID code: 12941 Dates: DateEventSeptember 2009PublishedNotes: CD-ROM ISBN: 1900743787 Subjects: Agriculture > Agriculture (General)
History General and Old World > Great Britain > Scotland
Education > Education (General)Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education
Professional Services > Information ServicesDepositing user: Professor Peter Hillis Date deposited: 28 Aug 2009 14:30 Last modified: 09 Apr 2024 07:08 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/12941