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  • MULL AND THE CLEARANCES
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    MULL AND THE CLEARANCES
    PETER MACNAB
    The Clearances are well known as one of the darkest periods of Highland history. Over a hundred-year period somewhere in the region of 150,000 people evicted from the land they had worked for generations; many were forced to start new lives overseas. The human cost was enormous, but there were huge consequences for the Highland economy too as the land was put to different uses....

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  • HARRIS IN HISTORY AND LEGEND
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    HARRIS IN HISTORY AND LEGEND
    BILL LAWSON
    Occupying the southernmost part of the largest of the Western Isles, Harris boasts some of the most ruggedly beautiful and unspoilt landscape in Scotland. In this book, Bill Lawson, who has lived on Harris for many years, not only introduces the reader to the events that have shaped the island’s history, but also dips into the local legends, traditions and tales, as well as his...

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  • BEACON IN THE WEST
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    BEACON IN THE WEST
    ROGER HUTCHINSON
    In 1918 Lord Leverhulme bought the island of Lewis with ambitious plans to massively expand its fishing industry and increase its population. In 1923, when his plans had failed, he offered it free of charge to the islanders in two parts. One part, which included impoverished rural areas, was economically unviable. But the other, based around the busy fishing port and administra...

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  • GLASGOW'S GAELIC PLACE-NAMES
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    GLASGOW'S GAELIC PLACE-NAMES
    ALASDAIR C. WHYTE / KATHERINE FORSYTH / SIMON TAYLOR
    It is time to bin – once and for all – the nonsense that Gaelic was never spoken in Glasgow. In fact, Glasgow's place-names tell us that Gaelic has been spoken in Glasgow for around a thousand years. Showcasing new research from the University of Glasgow, this illustrated guide to Glasgow's Gaelic namescape reveals how place-names are a key to unlocking Glasgow's hidden past an...

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  • THE ANTONINE WALL
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    THE ANTONINE WALL
    DAVID BREEZE
    As the most advanced frontier construction of its time, and as definitive evidence of the Romans' time in Scotland, the Antonine Wall is an invaluable and fascinating part of this country's varied and violent history. For a generation, from about AD 140 to 160, the Antonine Wall was the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire. Constructed by the Roman army, it ran from modern B...

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  • REMINISCENCES OF A JACOBITE
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    REMINISCENCES OF A JACOBITE
    MICHAEL NEVIN
    When Jacobite enthusiast Michael Nevin successfully bid for a handwritten letter and memorandum by Bonnie Prince Charlie at an auction, little did he realise he had come into possession of material that would change our view of history. Written in France following his defeat at Culloden in 1746 and addressed to Louis XV, the story that emerges from these documents is more compl...

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  • THE CAMPBELLS, 1250-1513
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    THE CAMPBELLS, 1250-1513
    STEPHEN BOARDMAN
    If not perhaps the most popular Highland clan, the Campbells are undoubtedly one of the most successful. The Campbell earls of Argyll have traditionally enjoyed a rather unsavoury historical reputation, viewed by their rivals with a mixture of fear, envy and respect. The spectacular advance of Campbell power in the medieval Scottish kingdom has normally been explained in terms ...

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  • ORKNEY DAYS
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    ORKNEY DAYS
    CHRISTINE MUIR
    This is the charming and poignant account of twenty-five years spent in Orkney. After her marriage to an islander, Christine Muir went to live on the tiny island of North Ronaldsay, where she and her husband brought up their four children and ran a small croft. Following the seasons though the year, Orkney Days is full of observations of the natural world at their doorstep. Bea...

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  • BARHOLM CASTLE
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    BARHOLM CASTLE
    JANET BRENNAN-INGLIS
    In 1999, Barholm Castle in Galloway had lain ruinous and derelict for over two hundred years when Janet Brennan-Inglis and her husband John bought it as a restoration project. Together with a team of architects, surveyors and builders, overseen by Historic Scotland, they turned this sixteenth-century tower house into a domestic residence once again – this time with central heat...

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  • ST KILDA: MY ISLAND HOME
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    ST KILDA: MY ISLAND HOME
    CHRISTINA MACDONALD & MACQUEEN
    Christina MacDonald MacQueen (1884–1959) was born on St Kilda and grew up there at the close of the 19th century. Yearning for the bright modern world beyond the island, she was the first woman to leave of her own accord in 1909, settling in Glasgow. During the crisis that led to the islands’ evacuations in 1929-30, she wrote a series of passionate articles about her childhood ...

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  • THE FINEST ROAD IN THE WORLD
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    THE FINEST ROAD IN THE WORLD
    JAMES MILLER / JIM MILLER
    Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off course, traffic pile-ups on so-called 'killer' highways - stories abound about the horrors of travel in the Highlands and Islands, and have done for as far as the records go back. James Miller tells the dramatic and sometimes surprisingly humorous story of travel and transport in the Highlands. Som...

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  • MONKS AND BISHOPS
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    MONKS AND BISHOPS
    ROBERT HAY
    The Isle of Lismore has a long reputation as a holy island, beginning with the foundation of a monastery by St Moluag in the sixth century, when it became a major centre of Christianity. The Roman Catholic Bishopric of Argyll was founded on Lismore in 1200, and the medieval Cathedral Church of St Moluag was completed in 1400, the choir of which forms the basis of the present-da...

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  • AYRSHIRE
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    AYRSHIRE
    THORBJORN CAMPBELL
    Ayrshire has a rich and varied history. The region has been inhabited from earliest times, as the remains of duns, cairns and barrows show. In the medieval period it played a key role in the emergence and consolidation of a unified Scotland, and it was from one of Ayrshire’s many powerful families that the Stewart line of kings emerged. From this period there remain many castle...

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