50 Cards
Shadow
No. 1
The Poll Tax in Scotland: The Year Scotland Went First
No. 2
The Seven Ill Years
No. 3
Post-Culloden Pacification
No. 4
Piper Alpha, 1988: The World's Deadliest Offshore Oil Disaster
No. 5
The Lowland Clearances
No. 6
The Long Emigration
No. 7
The Highland Potato Famine
No. 8
The Disruption's Social Cost
No. 9
Sectarian Scotland
No. 10
The Decline of the Kirk
No. 11
The Lockerbie Bombing, 1988
No. 12
The Secular Turn in Scotland
No. 13
Scotland and Transatlantic Slavery: The Tobacco Lords and the Wealth of Glasgow
No. 14
Municipal Socialism
No. 15
Nationalisation and the State Economy
No. 16
The Welfare State in Scotland
No. 17
Who Owns Scotland? Concentrated Land Ownership
No. 18
Home Children: Child Emigration from Scotland
No. 19
The Holyrood Building
No. 20
The Named Person Scheme
No. 21
The Gender Recognition Conflict
No. 22
Private Finance Initiative in Scotland
No. 23
The Ferries Crisis
No. 24
The End of the Scottish Coalfields
No. 25
The Miners' Strike in Scotland
No. 26
The Collapse of Scottish Steel
No. 27
The Decline of Clyde Shipbuilding
No. 28
The Collapse of Scottish Textiles
No. 29
The Dependency Question
No. 30
The Peripheral Estates
No. 31
The Glasgow Tenements and Slum Crisis
No. 32
The New Towns Experiment
No. 33
Right to Buy in Scotland
No. 34
The Curriculum Wars
No. 35
Scotland's Attainment Gap
No. 36
The Glasgow Effect
No. 37
Scotland's Alcohol Problem
No. 38
Scotland's Drug Deaths Crisis
No. 39
Scotland's Prison Problem
No. 40
Industrial Disease
No. 41
Rural Scotland's Quiet Crisis
No. 42
Scotland's Demographic Crisis
No. 43
New Scots
No. 44
The North Sea Oil Paradox
No. 45
The Banking Crash and Scotland
No. 46
The Lockdown
No. 47
The COVID Vaccination Campaign
No. 48
The Constitutional Decade
No. 49
The Housing Emergency
No. 50
Has Scotland Declined?
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Subjects worth knowing that don't have a card of their own.
Institutional Child Abuse and the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry
[Established] Survivors of abuse in care in Scotland campaigned for decades for recognition.
Quarrier's and the Child Emigrants: Scottish Children Sent to Canada, 1872–1938
[Established] William Quarrier (1829–1903) opened his first Glasgow home in 1871 and the Orphan Homes of Scotland at Bridge of Weir in 1878.
The 1919 Glasgow Harbour Riot: Race and Work on the Broomielaw
[Established] On 23 January 1919 a fight broke out at the mercantile marine office in Glasgow's harbour area when white sailors, many recently demobilised, attacked Black sailors looking for work.
The Aberdeen Typhoid Outbreak, 1964: A City in Quarantine
[Established] In May and June 1964 an outbreak of typhoid fever in Aberdeen led to 507 diagnosed cases, according to the microbiologist Hugh Pennington.
The Dunblane Massacre, 1996: Grief, Inquiry and the Handgun Ban
[Established] On 13 March 1996 a gunman killed sixteen children and their teacher, Gwen Mayor, in the gymnasium of Dunblane Primary School, and wounded others, before taking his own life.
The Eyemouth Disaster, 1881: Black Friday
[Established] On 14 October 1881 a sudden, violent storm struck the fishing fleets of south-east Scotland and north-east England.
The Mob and the Union: The Malt Tax Riots of 1725 and the Porteous Riots of 1736
[Established] In 1725 the British Parliament extended a malt tax to Scotland at half the English rate.
The Wishaw E. coli Outbreak, 1996: The Butcher's Shop That Changed Food Safety
[Established] The outbreak was traced to cooked meat from John M.