Stuff Our Mom Doesn't Know

#35 William Paterson and the Darien Scheme failure


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WE ARE BACK BABY! after a couple of weeks of due to covid-19 we are back and better then ever. This week we talk about how a simple conversation turned into the biggest financial disaster in Scottish history and how an investment across an ocean would come to change everything. 

sources;

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Darien-Scheme/

https://www.sbnation.com/secret-base/21504596/darien-scheme-scottish-colonialism-panama

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/scotland_darien_01.shtml

https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/scottish-history-and-archaeology/darien-chest/

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/p/williampaterson.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Paterson-British-economist

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