Rent strike

Jeanie Colquhoun and her mum were active participants in the rent strikes against profiteering landlords while Jamie Colquhoun and the other men were at the battlefields of World War I. (COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons)

Behind the scenes

 * In the real world, the rent strikes took place in 1914-1915 in Glasgow and surrounding areas. They resulted in the, which retroactively restricted rent increases during World War I.
 * The story does not date the strikes precisely. Jamie Colquhoun writes about them in a letter dated July 2016. However, he learned about them from a letter he himself received from his sister, and it is stated neither when that was sent nor events of which period it described.