Lanarkshire
Mar 13, 2020
2 minutes
fter the bishopric was founded in 560 we are told that ‘for more than 500 years…. history furnishes nothing worthy of remark respecting Glasgow’. By 1420 there was a profitable fishing industry and by 1546 some shipping. But industry was stirring already – letterpress printing was introduced in about 1630 and the first newspaper, The Glasgow Courant,
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