The Highland Clearances by John Prebble
Penguin Books Ltd
In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnifi...
View full detailsThe Scottish Highland Clearances in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries have been featured in movies, paintings and fiction. Everybody thinks they know what happened in Sutherland or the Western Isles but non-fiction studies by academics such as Eric Richards and Tom Devine reveal an insight into both the positive and negative aspects of this period of Scottish History.
In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnifi...
View full detailsA handy book for basic information on the major clans and tartans of Scotland, Discusses Highland dress and clans, and illustrates clan tartans.
A cultural history of the Scottish Highlands with stunning photographs.
Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award In April 1816 Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable h...
View full detailsSaltire First Scottish Book of the Year 2012. Fans of Outlander must read this Saltire Society Literary Awards Scottish First Book of the Year - a ...
View full detailsAn account of the mutinies in Highland regiments, beginning with the noble revolt of the Black Watch at Finchley in 1743 and ending with the mutiny...
View full detailsEric Richards author of several well-known books on the Highland Clearances re-examines many examples of factorial behaviour from different parts o...
View full detailsThis is the first volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course running from January 1998. The successful completion of the course gives...
View full detailsFirst published in 1883, MacKenzie's History of the Highland Clearances has remained in print to the present times. John Prebble wrote "...it has b...
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