Peter Roebuck
Biographic Data
| ID | 1042358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Roebuck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Roebuck |
| SIGNATURE | ROEBUCK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A White Linen Hall for Newry or Belfast
The prodigious growth of the industrialised linen industry associated with nineteenth-century Belfast developed from an earlier framework of eighteenth-century domestic production. This study outlines the vigorous competition in the 1780s between the linen drapers of Newry and Belfast to establish White Linen Halls where they sold the linen they had bought from domestic weavers in local linen markets. Each town offered specific advantages; howeve…
Economy and Society in Scotland and Ireland, 1500-1939
The Resilience of the Landed Elite
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access PETER ROEBUCK PETER ROEBUCK University of Ulster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume C, Issue CCCXCVII, October 1985, Pages 900-a–900, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/C.CCCXCVII.900-a Published: 01 October 1985
E. Richards, A history of the Highland clearances
Yorkshire Baronets, 1640-1760. Families, Estates and Fortunes
Register of Research in Progress on Irish Economic and Social History
Register of Research in Progress on Irish Economic and Social History
Post-Restoration Landownership
Major emphasis has been placed on the political significance of the final abolition of the Court of Wards and Liveries in 1660. Not only did it remove a substantial source of grievance against the crown but, as part of a wider settlement whereby Charles II surrendered ancient dues in return for revenue granted by parliament, it formed a major signpost on the road from a feudal to a constitutional monarchy. Historians have also stressed the import…
The Irish Registry of Deeds
The value of the Irish Registry of Deeds as a source, particularly for social and economic historians, has long been underestimated. It first received serious consideration in a lecture delivered to the Conference of Irish Historians in 1943 by Mr Samuel Weir. Mr Weir’s estimate of the usefulness of this source ran as follows : ‘while making no claim that the documents preserved in the Registry of Deeds are primarily of historical value, it is cl…
Post-Restoration Landownership
Major emphasis has been placed on the political significance of the final abolition of the Court of Wards and Liveries in 1660. Not only did it remove a substantial source of grievance against the crown but, as part of a wider settlement whereby Charles II surrendered ancient dues in return for revenue granted by parliament, it formed a major signpost on the road from a feudal to a constitutional monarchy. Historians have also stressed the import…
Yorkshire Baronets, 1640-1760. Families, Estates and Fortunes
The Irish Registry of Deeds
The value of the Irish Registry of Deeds as a source, particularly for social and economic historians, has long been underestimated. It first received serious consideration in a lecture delivered to the Conference of Irish Historians in 1943 by Mr Samuel Weir. Mr Weir’s estimate of the usefulness of this source ran as follows : ‘while making no claim that the documents preserved in the Registry of Deeds are primarily of historical value, it is cl…
Post-Restoration Landownership
Major emphasis has been placed on the political significance of the final abolition of the Court of Wards and Liveries in 1660. Not only did it remove a substantial source of grievance against the crown but, as part of a wider settlement whereby Charles II surrendered ancient dues in return for revenue granted by parliament, it formed a major signpost on the road from a feudal to a constitutional monarchy. Historians have also stressed the import…
Register of Research in Progress on Irish Economic and Social History
Register of Research in Progress on Irish Economic and Social History
Yorkshire Baronets, 1640-1760. Families, Estates and Fortunes
E. Richards, A history of the Highland clearances
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access PETER ROEBUCK PETER ROEBUCK University of Ulster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume C, Issue CCCXCVII, October 1985, Pages 900-a–900, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/C.CCCXCVII.900-a Published: 01 October 1985
The Resilience of the Landed Elite
Economy and Society in Scotland and Ireland, 1500-1939
A White Linen Hall for Newry or Belfast
The prodigious growth of the industrialised linen industry associated with nineteenth-century Belfast developed from an earlier framework of eighteenth-century domestic production. This study outlines the vigorous competition in the 1780s between the linen drapers of Newry and Belfast to establish White Linen Halls where they sold the linen they had bought from domestic weavers in local linen markets. Each town offered specific advantages; howeve…
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