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	Tragic Highland Clearances Menu
		The Highland Clearances, Ch.1 - Causes; Highlands vs Lowlands, Culloden, Jaocobites
		The Highland Clearances, Ch.3 - Glengarry, Strathglass, Sutherland
		The Highland Clearances, Ch.4 - Strathnaver, Patrick Sellars, Skye, Strathcarron & role of Church
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	Highland Clearances
		The day of the clearance of Sollas in 1849 was the end of that community, but it is remembered in our family as a day of pride as well as a day of anguish.
		ColÝ709 In this city and elsewhere in the south, we canÝsee evidence of the clearances in the Gaelic churches that were founded and in the major industries that were established with the help of labour that came from the north of Scotland.
		Sadly, no discussion about the Highland clearances is considered complete until someone, somewhere, trots out the tired old notion that the Highlands and Islands were, and are, intrinsically incapable of providing their people with a good quality of life.
	his.com /~rory/hlndclr.html (5290 words)

	Highland Clearances - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Highland Clearances (Scottish Gaelic: Fuadaich nan Gàidheal) is a name given to the forced displacement of the population of the Scottish Highlands from their ancient ways of warrior clan subsistence farming, leading to mass emigration.
		As in Ireland, the potato crop failed in the mid 19th century, and a widespread outbreak of cholera further weakened the Highland population.
		Narratives in a Landscape: Monuments and Memories of the Sutherland Clearances dissertation on the landscape of the Clearances
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highland_Clearances (1550 words)

	Highland Clearances
		The day of the clearance of Sollas in 1849 was the end of that community, but it is remembered in our family as a day of pride as well as a day of anguish.
		ColÝ709 In this city and elsewhere in the south, we canÝsee evidence of the clearances in the Gaelic churches that were founded and in the major industries that were established with the help of labour that came from the north of Scotland.
		Sadly, no discussion about the Highland clearances is considered complete until someone, somewhere, trots out the tired old notion that the Highlands and Islands were, and are, intrinsically incapable of providing their people with a good quality of life.
	www.his.com /~rory/hlndclr.html (5290 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Scotland's forgotten clearances
		Although evictions were not unknown, the Lowland clearances rarely involved teams of policemen and sheriff officers as they did in the Highlands and Islands nearly half a century later.
		The Lowland and Highland clearances were driven by the same forces: the rapid rise in Scotland's population, the growth of commercialism and the awakening of a free market economy dedicated to the pursuit of profit.
		The clearances were a Scottish phenomenon but they created two Scotlands: they helped transform the Lowlands into one of the most successful farming and industrial regions in Europe.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/3030889.stm (1063 words)

	Scotland's Past - The Highland Clearances
		The classic description of the tragic and terrible events which came to be know as the Highland Clearances, when thousands of people were forced out of their homes, often with their possessions burnt and their food supplies destroyed, to make way for sheep farming.
		It traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880's, showing how the process of clearance was part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation.
		The Clearances were the most rugged and painful of many attempted 'solutions' to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land.
	www.scotlandspast.org /highland.cfm (2683 words)

	Caithness CWS - Front Page Bulletins - September 2002 - Clearances Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		The postholder will be expected to travel throughout Scotland and the world to promote the Highland Clearances Project at Helmsdale, Sutherland, and persuade descendants of "cleared" families to support the project by way of donations ranging from £5 to £150,000.
		The Clearances Project will be developed in three phases and should be fully operational by 2008, when Inverness and the Highlands hopes to be the European Capital of Culture.
		They depict a clearance family and consist of a father gazing out to sea, his wife looking back up the empty glen and their two children.
	www.caithness.org /fpb/september2002/clearancesproject.htm (1548 words)

	Highland Clearances
		It is worth remembering, too, that while the rest of Scotland was permitting the expulsion of its Highland people it was also forming the romantic attachment to kilt and tartan that scarcely compensates for the disappearance of a race to whom such things were once a commonplace reality.
		What was true generally of the Highlands, was in the county of Sutherland carried to the greatest extreme.
		The Sutherland clearances were commenced in a comparatively mild way in 1807, by the ejection of ninety families from Farr and Lairg.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/hclearances.htm (4129 words)

	Highland Clearances
		Of all the misfortunes to befall the Scottish Highlanders, the Clearances are probably the worst and the one that still engenders great bitterness down to this day.
		The catalysts for the Clearances had been the Union of 1707 with which many Scots were disallusioned; the uprising of 1715; the near successful uprising of '45 which resulted in the Battle of Culloden and the resultant ban on Highland dress, tartan and weapons.
		This was the death knell of the clan system and the traditional Highland way of life where the people rented land from their Chiefs and in turn pledged their allegiance to them.
	www.tartansauthority.com /web/site/The_Clans/HighlandClearances.asp (1514 words)

	Highland Clearances - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Highland Clearances, name given to the process of land redistribution, eviction, and emigration which took place in the north of Scotland from about...
		The subject of the Highland clearances is one of the most controversial and sensitive in the history and culture of Scotland.
		Few issues in Scottish history are more emotive than the Clearances.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Highland_Clearances.html (142 words)

	The Highland Clearances
		The Highland Clearances are still regarded as one of the most shameful episodes in Scottish history.
		Highlanders had always faced a struggle to live off the land - but, until the Jacobite defeat at Culloden in 1746, they had been protected by the Clan system, which ensured they paid fair rents and their basic needs were met.
		Giving the Highlanders the opportunity to make a living from fishing also proved to be little short of a disaster, since they had little or no knowledge of how to do this.
	www.legenca.freeserve.co.uk /history/clear.html (1185 words)

	Scottish History - Summary Index
		The 'pacification' of the Highlanders and the Clearances which followed a generation later, completed the ruin of that once proud and ancient tribal society known as the Highland Clan System.
		Yet, the Highland leaders, the Chiefs, are as much to blame, if not moreso, for the calamity of the Highland Clearances once the horrible process had begun.
		Although to attempt to view the devastation of the Highlanders and their life-style as a sole result of Culloden and the Jacobite Wars is a vast oversimplification, it is still a very important factor in the end of the Highland Clan System.
	www.scottish-history.com /clearances.shtml (3414 words)

	The Highland Clearances in Scotland
		The Highland Clearances were a shock ripple from the wave that was the battle of Culloden.
		In this Scottishweb section on the highland clearances there is a special focus on the Sutherland Clearances, sometimes known as 'the cruel clearances'.
		In fact, emigration was already happening to a degree in the highlands, where people chose for themselves to leave their homeland for pastures in the new world.
	www.scottishweb.net /features/clearances/clearancemain.htm (803 words)

	The Battle of the Braes and Land Reform
		On the island of Skye, the cruelty of the clearances and the disregard for human life and values festered in the minds of the people for many years until eventually the worm began to turn.
		The government, weary both with the demands of arrogant Highland proprietors and the agitation of the crofters, was at last stung into action, and a commission of enquiry was set up to investigate "the conditions of the crofters and cottars in the Highlands....
		It had taken over a hundred years of evictions and banishments, grief and separation, and finally anger and rebellion, but at last the remaining Highlanders had a right to a life in their own country.
	www.highlandclearances.info /clearances/clearances_battleofthebrae.htm (506 words)

	Highland Folk Museum - Crofting
		A croft is a small farm of a sort peculiar to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
		Coastal strips, and other marginal land, were used to re-settle Highlanders pushed out of their traditional holdings in the name of economic reform.
		What distinguishes this croft from others is the fact that instead of being equipped and managed in the manner of its 21 st century counterparts, it is operated strictly in accord with the practices of the mid-1930s.
	www.highlandfolk.com /gaelic/crofting.php (435 words)

	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - The Highland Clearances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		THE ISLE of Mull lost nearly half of its population during the Highland clearances.
		THE enduring mythology of the Highland Clearances in which reluctant emigrants were thrown aboard...
		Highland tenants face having their homes sold from under them by one of Britain's richest families.
	heritage.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1272 (424 words)

	ScottishHistory.com
		The Anglicisation of the ruling Highland class meant that as the numbers of Gaelic speaking lairds dropped, and the numbers of monoglot lairds rose the chief became a feudal landlord for the first time in any real sense.
		The first stage began with the introduction of sheep farming to the Highlands from 1760 onwards and ended with the establishment of the large sheep runs in the interior of the country and the people on the coast.
		The early clearances were almost always from the land to the coast simply because at the time when wool prices were rising the prices for kelp were rising too.
	www.scottishhistory.com /articles/highlands/clearances/clearance_page1.html (1031 words)

	Helmsdale Community - The Highland Clearances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Highland Blackface sheep in the Strath of Kildonan.
		The (Duchess of Sutherland) found it spread equally over the interior and the sea-coast, and in very comfortable circumstances--(but) she left it compressed into a wretched fabric of poverty and suffering that fringes the county on its eastern and western shores.
		Sandy Lindsay, a resident of Inverness and a former SNP councillor, initiates a movement to have the 27-foot red sandstone statue of the Duke of Sutherland, that sits atop Ben Bhraggie in the Golspie area, destroyed or removed.
	www.helmsdale.org /clearances.html (11272 words)

	The Highland Clearances (Eric Richards) - book review
		The "quiet march of the sheep" was the single biggest part of the rural revolution that swept the Highlands: Richards describes the introduction of new breeds, Blackfaced and Cheviot, the need for capital and the importance of farmers from outside the region, and the driving forces behind the steady spread of the sheep.
		And events are set in their broader context: famines and relief schemes, the realities and rhetoric of emigration, the influence of media attention and public opinion in Inverness and Edinburgh but also in London, changes in commodity prices, the development of hunting and shooting tourism as alternatives to sheep farming, and so forth.
		This put a definitive end to clearances, but did little to help the poorest inhabitants of the Highlands and was of mixed benefit for the region's longer term economic prospects.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Highland_Clearances.html (561 words)

	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - The Highland Clearances - Lowland clearances 'worse than Highlands' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		While the clearances are recalled in poems, songs and books in the north, nothing similar exists in the culture and folklore of the rural south.
		So it wasn't as "bad" as the highland clearances then where they burned down villages, robbed people of their living and partook in devious and horrible practices.
		The highlands during this period were over-populated and the land could not feed the tenants.
	heritage.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1272&id=1434192006 (985 words)

	The Clearances - Books From Scotland
		The Clearances, the period in Scottish or Highland history between 1785 and the 1850s when thousands of crofters were forcibly evicted from their lands, is still a hot topic among historians, and books on the subject continue to pour out from publishers.
		Butcher's Broom with the poignant background of the early nineteenth-century Highland clearances is one of the jewels in Gunn's crown.
		Patrick Sellar was a chief beneficiary of the Highland clearances.
	www.booksfromscotland.com /Features/Reading-Guides/Highland-Clearances (1310 words)

	Highland Clearances
		This is the book by Samuel Johnson in which he details his travels throughout the Highlands and Island during 1773 and provides a very interesting account of Scotland at the time of the Highland Clearances.
		This is an historical account of the period of the Highland Clearances in which we see both sides of the event.
		This really is an excellent account of the conditions of the Highlands that led to the clearances and emigration.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/clearances.htm (186 words)

	MacLennan Family Scottish History Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		The history of these clearances was recorded as being devastating, painful and extremely cruel to the many that were involved.
		The CD unfolds a true tale of tragedy and triumph chronicling the migration of 109 families from the Island of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides to the remote backwood's of nineteenth century Upper Canada.
		Victims of a kind of nineteenth century ethnic cleansing known as the Highland Clearances, the Lewis emigrants were evicted from their Hebridean crofts in 1851 by landowner James Matheson.
	www.homepagez.com /maclizard/histsc.html (1735 words)

	theclearances.org
		The Highland Clearances are stories of individual people, in some cases of their greed and in others of their suffering.
		Scotland is fortunate to have a series of excellent snapshots of local life around the time of the main Clearances ca 1790-1845 with the Statistical Accounts, a remarkable venture coordinated by Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster.
		Commemorate your ancestors by planting a tree in the Highlands.
	www.theclearances.org /clearances/main.php (350 words)

	Clan MacGregor Page including "The Highland Clearances" by Steve Blamires - Detailing The Clearances in Scotland
		Soon the Highlands and Islands were echoing to the high-pitched sound of the bleating sheep, whereas once they had been lulled by the soft lowing of the great shaggy Highland cows.
		Highland games and Highland dancing (which did not actually exist prior to then) became very popular amongst the landowners and wealthy English merchants and the traditional Highland culture became the "Brigadoon" type of romantic rubbish that most non- Scots still believe today.
		Of the Highland Regiments and Highland Clearances, 1856.
	technovate.org /web/earthclan/clanweb.html (11918 words)

	Skeayley ny Gaeil: Highland Clearances
		Highlanders were cleared from their homes for sheep-farming.
		The Highlanders were forced to the rocky cliffs to subsist on rotted potatoes and seafood.
		The mass genocide, eviction, and emigration is known in history as The Highland Clearances.
	www.tartanplace.com /tartanhistory/genocide.html (262 words)

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