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Holocaust slur is no way to open debate on Highland Clearances
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday MAGNUS LINKLATER September 8, 2002 700+ words ...great deal more about the Highland Clearances if the plans announced...Scottish History, "The Highland Clearances are one of the most evocative...persuasive. The failure of the Highland communities to fight the Clearances was, he says, like the... |
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The Clearances? What Clearances? Anger over historian"s claim that Highland...
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) March 7, 2005 700+ words ...yesterday by claiming that the Highland Clearances were a myth. Michael Fry is...Scots: Four Hundred Years of Highland History by Michael Fry will...Passing of the old way of life THE Highland Clearances began after the Battle of Culloden... |
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Historian airs views on Highland clearances
Newspaper article from: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK) Jane Candlish September 30, 2006 700+ words ...controversial views on the Highland Clearances during a lecture at...Asking why the Highland Clearances had more resonance...into society. The clearances meant dispersal and...out that traditional Highland society was based... |
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Lairds ready to apologise for Highland Clearances
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday Graham Ogilvy April 26, 1998 700+ words ...poised to apologise for the Highland Clearances for the first time in an attempt...the passionate memory of the Highland Clearances is likely to be a stumbling...in the past, described the Highland Clearances as irrelevant to the challenges... |
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HISTORY OF BITTERNESS; Did the Highland Clearances really happen? Not as the...
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) Fry, Michael November 2, 2002 700+ words ...for sheep. These were the Clearances, from the end of the 18th...the 19th century. If the Clearances are the central fact of modern Highland history, then the Highlanders...helplessness. Yet what if the Clearances are a myth? Or largely... |
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SCANDAL OF THE NEW HIGHLAND CLEARANCES... Only now it's lavishly-funded...
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) May 2, 2006 700+ words ...by the Duke of Sutherland of Highland Clearances fame - and they're confident...a grudge mythology about the Highland Clearances that's used to fuel a rural...No one doubts the 19thcentury Highland experience was, to say the... |
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Highland aid 'just blood money for Clearances'
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman JOHN ROSS AND FIONA MACLEOD September 3, 2007 700+ words ...tribulations of the region were the Highland Clearances. Highlanders were forced from...many of the evictions made the Highland Clearances particularly harsh. Later...labour to their landlords. The Highland Potato Famine 1846-7, although... |
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Irish helped English in Highland Clearances
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald Kathleen Nutt April 9, 2000 700+ words ...episodes in Scottish history, the Highland Clearances. Michelle Cotter, a young...their own uprisings by Scottish Highland regiments that they so willingly...the 21st Foot Regiment in the Highland Clearances, using witness accounts of... |
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IT'S THE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES AGAIN; Toffs want rid of farmers.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) March 31, 1997 700+ words ...landowners are threatening farmers with a new wave of Highland Clearances. Two top aristos are trying to turf them off to...years. Furious Mr Ogg said: "This is like the Highland Clearances all over again. "The lairds and their factors... |
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Thousands murdered, a country ravaged and a way of life destroyed.. this was...
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) March 30, 2008 700+ words ...for new five-part TV show Highland. The Taggart star's poignant...betrayal. He learned how the Highland Clearances laid waste to a people and a...boy who had never heard of the Highland clearances I never considered why the most... |
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Gunn, Neil (Miller)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Caithness. Several of his plays contemplate Highland life in decline, including his first novel...Broom (1934), a powerful testament to the Highland Clearances. The modernist Highland River (1937) maps the life of its hero onto... |
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