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Authors

Michael Taylor

Abstract

In 1746, following Bonnie Prince Charlie’s failed attempt to restore the Scottish House of Stuart to the British throne, Parliament passed the Disarming Act. One curious element of this law was the banning of bagpipes. Music, the anxious London legislators had discovered, has a way of stirring the p....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.14.2.02

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