Today I am mainly going to the #AyrshireBeerFestival#Troon Cheers.
Good afternoon. It appears that Summer has finally arrived at #Dunure#SouthAyrshire AND it might actually last more than a day....
So much to explore! This is not about rewriting history but about rediscovering different histories. I’ll let you know how I get on.. #Colonialism#Scotland#Burns#Ayrshire
Survey led me down a new avenue discovering that salt pan workers, by an act of 1660, were bound to their workplace. “It was felt that if workers were free to leave such harsh working conditions to seek employment elsewhere, it would be difficult to find replacements.
At some stage, #SouthAyrshireCouncil did a survey of monuments and street names ” and property with possible connections to slavery and other negative aspects of Britain’s colonial past, and to racism” Don’t know what happened as a result of this survey I suspect nothing.
And as I was noodling, wandering and wondering around the internet, I discover that in 1914, 2 suffragettes attempted to burn down Burn’s birthplace Not even all suffragettes were happy with this and the power of Burns (or the myth of Burns?) lives on.. digital.nls.uk/scotlandspag...
And we are back to Rabbie Burns. Burns very nearly went to work as an overseer on a plantation in Jamaica but the success of his first publication of collected poems provided him with a financial alternative glasgowmuseumsslavery.co.uk/2021/01/25/r...