The Tron Riot of 1812
The New Year murder of an Edinburgh watchman, explains Andrew G. Ralston, was to affect both local security and attitudes to young offenders.
In the early nineteenth century, when Sir Walter Scott wrote that in Scotland
Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer,
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