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The Acreocracy of Perthshire: Who Owns Our Land?
Perth and Kinross Fabian Society, 1971
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In this pamphlet the major Perthshire landowners are revealed for the first time since the Scottish Landownership Survey of 1872-73. The research was carried out by a few committed land reform activists in the late 1960s. One of the driving forces behind the work of this small landownership group was John McEwen. At the time when the pamphlet was published McEwen was then 83 years old.
The publication of the Perthshire landownership information was the start of a remarkable personal project in which the elderly McEwen with the assistance of his wife Margaret then went onto document the main landholding and ownership pattern for the whole of Scotland. His researches were published in 1977 in a book titled Who Owns Scotland.