definition of "clearance" (as it relates to the Highland Clearances) is debatable. The term was not in common use during much of the clearances; landowners...
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two major events in Scottish history, the Jacobite risings and the Highland Clearances. The Jacobite risings were a series of rebellions in Great Britain...
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Sutherland (redirect from Sutherland (local government district, Highland region))
Sutherland, like other parts of the Highlands, was affected by the Highland Clearances, the eviction of tenants from their homes and/or associated farmland...
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Scottish clan (redirect from Highland clans)
the changes in the Highland agricultural economy, as the introduction of agricultural improvement gave rise to the Highland clearances.: 9 The loss of...
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Scotland. Clearances in England were more usually known as Enclosure Highland Clearances Cahill 2002, p. 137. bbc.co.uk: "Scotland's forgotten clearances" 16...
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Scottish Highlands (redirect from Highland Scots)
(2000). The Highland Clearances People, Landlords and Rural Turmoil (2013 ed.). Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited. ISBN 978-1-78027-165-1. "Highland profile –...
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North Uist (section The Highland Clearances)
Midlothian), 1978, p.426 Campbell (1971), Highland Songs of the Forty-Five, pages 246, 248-253. "Highland Clearances – 3". 25 November 2013. Archived from...
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Clan Cameron (section Highland Clearances)
trace their origins to people removed from their lands during the Highland Clearances. During the Revolutionary War and Napoleonic Wars, John Cameron of...
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Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (category Highland Clearances)
Leveson-Gower family, best remembered for her involvement in the Highland Clearances. In 1803, her husband inherited the income from the highly profitable...
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be seen includes feral goats (descendants of those left from the Highland Clearances), red deer, and around the peaks sometimes golden eagles.[citation...
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Clan Grant (section Highland clearances)
Grant. Clan Grant was one of the few clans not to be affected by the Highland Clearances. The "Good Sir James" Grant (Clan Chief from 1773 to 1811) built...
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Duke of Sutherland (category Highland Clearances)
Duchess of Sutherland remain controversial for their role in the Highland Clearances, when thousands of tenants were evicted and resettled in coastal...
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Scottish Gaelic (redirect from Scottish Highland Gaelic language)
public disrespect, state mandated restrictions on Gaelic usage, and highland clearances. This negative affect towards speaking openly with non-native Gaelic...
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Highland games (Scottish Gaelic: geamannan Gàidhealach) are events held in spring and summer in Scotland and other countries with a large Scottish diaspora...
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of labour with Lowland agricultural practice plus labour in the Highland Clearances.[page needed] A handful of powerful families, typified by the dukes...
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George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (category Highland Clearances)
the Clearances), written by Ewen Robertson, who became known as the "Bard of the Clearances." Richards, Eric (1999). Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances:...
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industrial towns during the 19th century, especially during the Highland Clearances, the Highland Potato Famine, and the similar famine in Ireland. However...
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Crofting (category Highland Clearances)
communities were a product of the Highland Clearances (though individual crofts had existed before the clearances). Previously, Highland agriculture was based on...
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These social and economic changes included the first phase of the Highland Clearances and, ultimately, the demise of clanship.: 32–53, passim The Scottish...
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earlier generations had been forced off their land as part of the Highland Clearances. According to one genealogical account, displaced families in Mary's...
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that had been removed from the surrounding straths as part of the Highland Clearances. The River Helmsdale (Gaelic Ilidh) was noted by Ptolemy as Ila,...
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families living on the Clanranald estates, suffered grievously from the Highland Clearances and also religious persecution at the hands of the Clanranald chief...
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Ben Bhraggie (category Highland Clearances)
Sutherland who became notorious through the part he played in the Highland clearances. Leveson-Gower was born in 1758, the son of the Marquess of Stafford...
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the others. First published in 1883, MacKenzie's History of the Highland Clearances has remained in print to the present times. John Prebble wrote "...
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escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances. Coffin ships carrying emigrants, crowded and disease-ridden, with...
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could be developed and established an extensive crofting system (see Highland Clearances). Croft sizes were set low to encourage the tenantry to participate...
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extend the theme. The Highland Clearances remains one of his best known works perhaps because the subject of the Highland clearances as a discrete historical...
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for providing landlords with an easy mechanism for the Highland Clearances. In 1846, the Highland Potato Famine caused a crisis in the Highlands and the...
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Lochaber (redirect from Lochaber district (Highland))
population was decimated over the years that followed by both the Highland Clearances and voluntary emigration. One particularly devastating loss in 1816...
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by the enforced resettlement after the Battle of Culloden and the Highland Clearances. The first documented Scottish settlement in the Americas was of...
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