Describes Bliadhna nan Caorach, the Year of the Sheep, in Ross-shire in the summer of 1792 when about 200 Highland farmers from Strathrusdale and other communities drove as many as 10,000 cheviot and blackface sheep toward Inverness to protest their intrusion on to Highland lands; discusses the difference between protest, riot, and insurrection; and examines a poetic response by Ailean Dughallach (Allan MacDougall) and two sympathetic prose reactions, by Anne Grant, of Laggan, and a touring English clergyman John Lettice (who attended the subsequent trials, but took some of his information from the Statistical Account)
Transhumance, called booleying in Ireland, is a practice found in many parts of Europe that involves...
This article examines the cultural nationalist movement in the Scottish Highlands during the period ...
The Highland Clearances of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were a tragic period in Scottish h...
Describes Bliadhna nan Caorach, the Year of the Sheep, in Ross-shire in the summer of 1792 when abou...
Examines based on contemporary accounts the protests in the small coastal town Pulteneytown, Caithne...
The highlands are now relatively empty with only about 20% of Scotland’s population living in the re...
Reviews the career of John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895), poet, professor successively of humanity in A...
A broadranging review of conflictual events in Scottish history from the late 17th to the early 20...
One of the most controversial events in recent Scottish history has been the �Highland Clearances�. ...
The Highland clearances is the name given to the process of eviction and emigration which took place...
A broadranging review of "conflictual events" in Scottish history from the late 17th to the early 20...
No historical account has previously been written of Scottish sheep farming, though it has played a...
In November 1918, the implementation of agrarian change in the Scottish Highlands threatened another...
The short and militarily inglorious rebellion launched in May 1685 by Archibald Campbell, 9th earl o...
In Scottish historiography the terms “Highland Clearances” refer to the process by which between the...
Transhumance, called booleying in Ireland, is a practice found in many parts of Europe that involves...
This article examines the cultural nationalist movement in the Scottish Highlands during the period ...
The Highland Clearances of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were a tragic period in Scottish h...
Describes Bliadhna nan Caorach, the Year of the Sheep, in Ross-shire in the summer of 1792 when abou...
Examines based on contemporary accounts the protests in the small coastal town Pulteneytown, Caithne...
The highlands are now relatively empty with only about 20% of Scotland’s population living in the re...
Reviews the career of John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895), poet, professor successively of humanity in A...
A broadranging review of conflictual events in Scottish history from the late 17th to the early 20...
One of the most controversial events in recent Scottish history has been the �Highland Clearances�. ...
The Highland clearances is the name given to the process of eviction and emigration which took place...
A broadranging review of "conflictual events" in Scottish history from the late 17th to the early 20...
No historical account has previously been written of Scottish sheep farming, though it has played a...
In November 1918, the implementation of agrarian change in the Scottish Highlands threatened another...
The short and militarily inglorious rebellion launched in May 1685 by Archibald Campbell, 9th earl o...
In Scottish historiography the terms “Highland Clearances” refer to the process by which between the...
Transhumance, called booleying in Ireland, is a practice found in many parts of Europe that involves...
This article examines the cultural nationalist movement in the Scottish Highlands during the period ...
The Highland Clearances of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were a tragic period in Scottish h...