This thesis examines Lowland public opinion towards the Highlanders in mid-nineteenth century Scotland. It explores attitudes present in the contemporary newspaper press, and shows that public opinion was divided by three basic perceptions: 'contempt', 'sympathy' and 'romance'. An analysis of the main newspaper files demonstrates that during the Famine years up to the Crimean War, the most prevalent perception was that of contempt, regarding the Gaels as an 'inferior' and often 'useless' race. The study also describes the battle which sympathetic journalists fought against this majority perception, and shows their disillusionment at what they saw at the time was a hopeless struggle. Within the same period, romanticised views are also examin...
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...
This study, positioned within the historiography of the Disruption, is responding to a recognised ne...
This thesis examines the distribution and exercise of power within the Highlands in the fifteen year...
The Highland Clearances have featured in many historical analyses over the past thirty years and ha...
This paper considers the ‘protest’ burning of newspapers in the Highlands in the months immediately ...
The paper discusses the emergence of the còmhradh (dialogue)as the preferred prose genre for the dis...
By 1827, the destruction of the clan system, the Highland clearances and the commercialisation of th...
This thesis examines the struggles for moral, cultural and political control of the Scottish Highlan...
The romance of the Scottish Highlands came into existence as a theme within the ideology which gove...
One of the most controversial events in recent Scottish history has been the �Highland Clearances�. ...
This thesis considers the place which the First World War and the trends in 20th century Gaelic hist...
This thesis examines the Scottish Presbyterian Churches anti-Irish campaign in the inter-war period...
This thesis is concerned with the development of government policy in the Scottish Highlands from th...
The main aim of this thesis is to explore the cultural ambivalence of the Edinburgh literati as it r...
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...
This study, positioned within the historiography of the Disruption, is responding to a recognised ne...
This thesis examines the distribution and exercise of power within the Highlands in the fifteen year...
The Highland Clearances have featured in many historical analyses over the past thirty years and ha...
This paper considers the ‘protest’ burning of newspapers in the Highlands in the months immediately ...
The paper discusses the emergence of the còmhradh (dialogue)as the preferred prose genre for the dis...
By 1827, the destruction of the clan system, the Highland clearances and the commercialisation of th...
This thesis examines the struggles for moral, cultural and political control of the Scottish Highlan...
The romance of the Scottish Highlands came into existence as a theme within the ideology which gove...
One of the most controversial events in recent Scottish history has been the �Highland Clearances�. ...
This thesis considers the place which the First World War and the trends in 20th century Gaelic hist...
This thesis examines the Scottish Presbyterian Churches anti-Irish campaign in the inter-war period...
This thesis is concerned with the development of government policy in the Scottish Highlands from th...
The main aim of this thesis is to explore the cultural ambivalence of the Edinburgh literati as it r...
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...
This study, positioned within the historiography of the Disruption, is responding to a recognised ne...