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Ancient Records of Dumbarton [And Glasgow] ... Illustrations, Etc.
Ancient Records of Dumbarton [and Glasgow] ... Illustrations, British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition ++++ British Library Macleod, Donald; 1896.]. 2 pt.; 8 . 010370.e.11.
262 pages, Paperback
Published February 20, 2011
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June 1, 2025
If you really have to know how male and female wages at Dumbarton City Waterworks compared in 1628, you couldn’t have found a better book.
Well let’s face it, you have to want to know something special to start in on a book of this age and with such a particular focus. Published in 1896 and obviously compiled for several years before this, it might seem too dusty to even reach down from the shelf.
But having done that, waded through the customary flowery introduction and eventually arrived at the extraordinary history of Dumbarton and Glasgow, I was hooked. Not least because for most of my life, I hadn’t a clue where Dumbarton was, let alone that it had once been home to one of the largest and most renowned glassmaking companies in the country, patronized by Good Queen Victoria herself. I also had no idea how involved Glasgow had been in the sugar and tobacco trades – with their heavy dependance on slave labor for their plantations.
And there’s so much more … so why not dust off the cobwebs and give it a go?
Well let’s face it, you have to want to know something special to start in on a book of this age and with such a particular focus. Published in 1896 and obviously compiled for several years before this, it might seem too dusty to even reach down from the shelf.
But having done that, waded through the customary flowery introduction and eventually arrived at the extraordinary history of Dumbarton and Glasgow, I was hooked. Not least because for most of my life, I hadn’t a clue where Dumbarton was, let alone that it had once been home to one of the largest and most renowned glassmaking companies in the country, patronized by Good Queen Victoria herself. I also had no idea how involved Glasgow had been in the sugar and tobacco trades – with their heavy dependance on slave labor for their plantations.
And there’s so much more … so why not dust off the cobwebs and give it a go?
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