Author: James BarronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century: 1825-1841
Author: James BarronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century
Author: James BarronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Scottish Historical Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A new series of the Scottish antiquary established 1886.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Author: Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Includes List of members.
Periods in Highland History
Author: Isabel Frances GrantPublisher:
ISBN: 9780760717158
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"Concise in style and informed by vast erudition, Periods in Highland History contains a small library's worth of information on all aspects of Highland Scottish history from the earliest times to the present. It offers a wealth of detail on topics ranging from clan warfare to the origins of the Highlanders' distinctive dress to the agricultural methods they used to support themselves in their beautiful but largely barren land"--Book jacket.
'The People Are Not There'
Author: David TaylorPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788855221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region's destiny: climate and market forces, hunger and relief measures, sheep farms and sporting estates, agricultural improvement and proprietorial greed, and the evolution of clanship. Although this is an intensely localised study, the dramatic nature of change is explored against the wider context of events not just across the Highlands, but also within the British state and its global empire. Badenoch's journey moves from the relative prosperity of the Napoleonic Wars into the terrible post-war destitution that devastated peasant, tacksman and Duke of Gordon alike. Estate reform and 'improvement' gradually brought a degree of economic and social stability, but inevitably resulted in depopulation as people were forced off the land to seek refuge in the impoverished 'planned villages' or to abandon their Gaelic homeland for life in the Lowlands. For those with the means, however, emigration provided lucrative opportunities unimaginable at home. Through extensive use of documentary evidence, much of it previously unseen, David Taylor paints an intimate portrait of the historically neglected region of Badenoch – one that provides a compelling new perspective on Highland history.
The Monsters of Loch Ness
Author: Roy P. MackalPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804007047
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A definitive book on the world's best known monster hunt which proves that large unknown creatures do exist in the deep cold waters of the Loch.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Set Adrift Upon the World
Author: James HunterPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857902628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode, involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county. What was done in the course of that episode was planned and carried out by a small group of men and one woman. Most of those involved wrote a great deal about their actions, intentions and feelings, and much of it has been preserved. There are no equivalent collections of material from those whose communities ceased to exist. Their feelings and fears are harder to access, but they are by no means irrecoverable. In this book James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping, moving, definitive account of a people's struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster which includes experiences which have not featured in any previous such account.
Author: Hew Scott