Solicitors to Scotland by Ewan Mccall
Three huge iron chests lay locked in the office of a law firm, their ancient mechanisms jealously guarding secrets of Scotland’s past. No one had seen inside the chests for over a century or knew what they contained. When the bolts were finally opened, the artefacts contained in these chests revealed more than anyone had expected. From early monasteries to the digital age, from Robert the Bruce to Adam Smith, from Jacobite search warrants to twins switched at birth, the lost material from these archives has enabled us to reconstruct the lives and times of some of the most romantic, bizarre, heroic and villainous characters to brush shoulders with the law. Their stories reveal very human expressions of the inner conflicts of Empire, Enlightenment, industrialisation and democratisation. No profession is better placed than the law to track the trials and tribulations of social change, nor is any so closely involved with the outcome of disputes in which people grapple with their own loyalties, sensibilities and sexualities. Pivoting between popes, plots, prime ministers and prime suspects, this kaleidoscopic tour of Scotland’s past may change our perception of the present.'Ewan McCall has succeeded in producing that rarest of publishing phenomena — a company history that is both interesting and readable.. told with a sharp eye for entertaining detail'
-- Graham Ogilvy * Scottish Legal News *Ewan McCall is a writer and campaigner specialising in the Scottish Enlightenment and the East India Company. He started writing Solicitors to Scotland after accidentally stumbling across eighteenth-century ledgers while helping to clear office space at Anderson Strathern. Since then, he has served as British Young Ambassador to Europe and works in advocating anti-poverty initiatives.
Anderson Strathern, the law firm in which the three ancient chests were found, takes its name from the union of two historical Scottish legal firms that merged in 1992. However, the story of the company begins with its first verifiable partner, John Lumsden, admitted a WS in 1701. Today, the firm works with public and private clients across Scotland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781839830259 |
| ISBN 10 | 1839830255 |
| Title | Solicitors to Scotland |
| Author | Ewan Mccall |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Birlinn General |
| Year published | 2022-06-02 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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