On 13 Sep 2011, Rob Say wrote: > This book on the haggis: > http://www.avrf23.dsl.pipex.com/The%20Haggis%20TYPESET%2016%20feb-2.pdf > Both references grain prices and crop failures for the period: > " 1790s Harvest Failure, 1799 Price of corn was more than double the > level of the 1790s, Harvest Failure" > AND has a substantial reference list ... none of which are on my bookshelf.
The prices were additionally hiked by the British government requisitioning foodstuffs for the troops/navies / etc for the various ongoing military campaigns at the time. I can find no reference to whisky in "A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830" - generally reckoned a standard social history text, if now a bit dated. The only famine it mentions is the big 1690s one which took out 25% of the Scottish population (and by extrapolation probably a sizeable chunk of the Northumbrian, since the area looked north, not south). Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
