Port Riots and Dogs' Lives

Published: Jan. 10, 2021, 7 a.m.

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Was it a dog\\u2019s life in 17th century Scotland? Susan Morrison talks to historian of animal-human relationships, Laura Moffat of the University of Strathclyde about her pet subject. Find out what you were supposed to do if you were bitten by a mad dog back in the day (clue - it involves the worst smoothie in the world), and why James VI shouldn\\u2019t have let his wife Anne of Denmark out with his dogs. If dogs had it bad in the 17th century, people had it worse in the 1540s, during the harrowing wars of the \\u2018Rough Wooing\\u2019. Dr Amy Blakeway is back to tell us about women in the \\u2018Rough Wooing\\u2019 and sisters doing it for themselves - those nunneries needed defending. Looking at the more sinister side of Red Clydeside, Tomiwa Folorunso, who\\u2019s a regular contributor to BBC Scotland\\u2019s The Social talks to Dr Jacqueline Jenkinson of Stirling University about the Glasgow Port Riots of 1919 when their white compatriots turned on Black British sailors who had suffered alongside them during the war.

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