The story of emigration from Oxfordshire, and neighbouring Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire 1815 - 1914.
 
The author has written a lively and knowledgeable story of emigration from Oxfordshire and its neighbouring shires from, 1815 to 1914.  The story begins with the voyages of Captain Cook, which led to the provision of new places for penal colonies in Australia.  Free emigration also gathered steam in the 1830s, followed by the Great Exodus from 1850. 
 
The story evokes the bustle and confusion of migrants at Liverpool, and the emotions of departure.  It looks at their shipping, health problems, costs and shipwrecks, and at the experience on arrival.  It also examines the political changes, particularly to the Poor Laws and Corn Laws.