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How Dundee invented 'heckling' and once sent 'Tree of Liberty' to prison – Susan Morrison
Soon the jute boom was attracting workers from all over Scotland and Ireland ... time sent from each spinning-mill to inform the union what stock of dressed flax is on hand… it is then computed ...
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What was it like working in the linen industry in Ulster?
By 1859 the bleaching mill had been turned into a flax spinning mill and was bought by two Ulster-Scots cousins, Henry and James Campbell. These men, who were very proud of their Ulster-Scots ...