Smuggling in the Highlands
Author: Ian MacDonald
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 134
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Author: Ian MacDonald
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 134
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Publisher: Gwasg y Bwthyn
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781906000011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Baillie Fraser
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Published: 1835
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Published: 1803
Total Pages: 898
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel MacCannell
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781780273037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllicit distilling in Scotland was seen as a 'right of man' at the end of the 17th century. Attempts to enforce excise duty on the spirit were therefore met with resistance, ranging from riots to more and more ingenious ways of avoiding paying tax. In this book and Charles MacLean and Daniel MacCannell give a fascinating insight into the day-to-day struggles that led to the increase in illicit distilling from the mid-1600s, then to its eventual demise in the early twentieth century. The Cabrach, a wild and sparsely populated part of Aberdeenshire, became renowned for its production of illicit whisky. Local inhabitants mixed farming and distilling with great skill, creating a network of stills and distribution to evade customs. Using new research first-hand historical accounts and official records, the authors show how spirits from this small parish were made and travelled far and wide, across the border to England and across the North Sea to France, firing up revolution and lending solidarity to the struggles of the Jacobites. Features: Making Whisky (Dennis McBain), The Jacobite Legacy (Murray Pittock), The Bard and the Bottle (David Purdie), The Dram In Folklore (Tom McKean), A Smuggler's Paradise (David Ferguson); Banff - The Smuggler's Royal Burgh (Jay Wilson), Scotland's Lost Distilleries (Brian Townsend).
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Published: 1803
Total Pages: 396
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Published: 1831
Total Pages: 734
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julian Hoppit
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2021-05-27
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0241434432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'An invaluable primer to some of the underlying tensions behind contemporary political debate' Financial Times It has always been an important part of British self-image to see the United Kingdom as an ancient, organic and sensibly managed place, in striking contrast to the convulsions of other European countries. Yet, as Julian Hoppit makes clear in this fascinating and surprising book, beneath the complacent surface the United Kingdom has in fact been in a constant, often very tense argument with itself about how it should be run and, most significantly, who should pay for what. The book takes its argument from an eighteenth century cartoon which shows the central state as the 'Dreadful Monster', gorging itself at the dinner table on all the taxes it can grab. Meanwhile the 'Poor Relations' - Scotland, Wales and Ireland, both poor because of tax but also poor in the sense of needing special treatment - are viewed in London as an endless 'drain on the state'. With drastically different levels of prosperity, population, industry, agriculture and accessibility between the United Kingdom's different nations, what is a fair basis for paying for the state?
Author: William A. Colledge
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 742
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