Assoc for Scottish LiteratureRobert Burns & the How-to of Barrel Gauging
“Alongside the expansion of the state in this period, scientific advances greatly enhanced methods for measuring and taxing goods, and in turn required officials proficient in these complex practices.”
James Fox looks at Robert Burns’s own copy of The Excise Officer’s Pocket Companion
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Robert Burns and the How-to of Barrel Gauging
Last weekend saw 25th January roll around, and that meant once again commemorating the life and works of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, born on this day in 1759. This time last year, only a few weeks into my tenure as a how-to-er, I blogged about haggis, that classic Scottish dish consumed at Burns suppers,… Continue reading Robert Burns and the How-to of Barrel Gauging