Glasgow
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Glasgow, city where artisans organised a boycott of an unpopular manufacturer following the Combination Act of 1824.
The artisans of Glasgow “boycotted,” as we should now say, and tried to ruin an unpopular manufacturer.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
City where the Scottish General Assembly met in 1638 and declared Episcopacy abolished, defying the King's High Commissioner.
All attempts at a compromise having failed, and an Assembly which met at Glasgow in the end of 1638 having continued to sit after Charles’s High Commissioner, the Marquis of Hamilton, had pronounced its dissolution, and having then declared Episcopacy to be abolished, Charles attempted in 1639 an invasion of Scotland.
Law in a Free State
The Scottish city where Henry Irving delivered his proposal for municipal theatres.
Irving should propound to the good people of Glasgow his theory of theatre nationalisation?