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19th Century Graffiti

Record Card ‘Victorian era graffiti’ found at The Voodoo Rooms bar in Edinburgh, The Herald. Details of graffiti from the 1800s in The Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh. Notes Yet more flavour from my favourite city. I wonder how many writers are scribbling down “I own a diamond, my father owns an ass” for use in …

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The Newspaper Project

Deserters

Poor McLeish and Ferguson, declared deserters. There are orders to search for them and for them to be “used as such”, whatever that means. Excerpt taken from: Caledonian Mercury, 6 Jan. 1800. British Library Newspapers, accessed via National Library of Scotland membership.

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Lord Arbuthnott’s Creditors

I would love to know more about the intricacies of this. I thoroughly enjoy the cautiously polite wordiness, and the use of the term ‘denude‘, as used within Scots law. Excerpt taken from: Caledonian Mercury, 6 Jan. 1800. British Library Newspapers, accessed via National Library of Scotland membership.

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