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Scottish Land Restoration League

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A second tour by George at the end of 1884 attracted less attention, and McHugh was accused of mismanaging its publicity. Already, the League was in decline, and when it stood five candidates in the
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became its first President, and McHugh its first Secretary. The group immediately spread to other cities around the nation. Among those who joined were many former members of the Land League.
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To Restore the Land to the People and the People to the Land: the emergence of the Not-for-Private-Profit Landownership Sector in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
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Map showing seats in Glasgow in 1885. Marked in Green are seats contested by the League. Of the five seats contested by the League, four were in Glasgow.
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was elected as the League's new President the following year. The League merged with the
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Moses : a lecture ... delivered in St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, December 28, 1884
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toured the Highlands and major cities of Scotland on the invitation of the English
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and the South Side Single Tax Association and renamed itself the
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Fenianism, Michael Davitt and Land and Labour in Scotland
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Index

Scottish Labour Party
Ideology
Georgism
Politics of Scotland
Political parties
Elections
Georgist
enclosure
Scottish Highlands
Irish Land League
landlordism
Henry George
Land Reform Union
Edward McHugh
land reform
John Murdoch
Richard McGhee
William Forsyth
1885 general election
Keir Hardie
Scottish Labour Party
National Union of Dock Labourers
Alexander Bowman
Henry George Institute
Scottish Land Restoration Union
Scottish League for the Taxation of Land Values
Scottish League for the Taxation of Land Values

Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown
Shaw Maxwell

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