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“The workers are the only losers”: The Scottish Turkey Red Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century Dr. Sally Tuckett University of Edinburgh [email protected]

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“The workers are the only losers”: The Scottish Turkey Red Industry in the Late Nineteenth

Century

Dr. Sally TuckettUniversity of [email protected]

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Photos courtesy of Graeme Yule

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The Vale of Leven showing the principle sites of the Turkey red manufacturers. Map courtesy of Google Earth

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Quilted petticoat of Turkey red cotton, private collection

Commemorative flag for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, courtesy of Katie Stuart

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India Street next to the old Alexandria Works, John Orr Ewing & Co.

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Hand block, 1880s, Archibald Orr Ewing & Co. Courtesy West Dunbartonshire

Council

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Colouring the Nation, online exhibition, hosted by the National Museums Scotland

http://www.nms.ac.uk/turkey_red/turkey_red.aspx