Paperback book `Clanship to the Crofters` War` by T. M. Devine.
The story of the people of the Scottish Highlands from medieval times to the great crofters` rebellion in the 1880s.
1998.321.3
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1997.272.8
Paperback book `Highland Folk Ways` by I. F. Grant.
The sequences of adjustment that have taken place in the lives of Scottish Highland people in response to great social and economic pressures and the tenacity with which the influence of the ancient and distinctive social organisation of the Highlands has persisted. For references to Tiree see pages 16 and 106.
1999.275.5
Hardback book `Argyll in the Forty-Five` by Sir James Fergusson.
Re-telling of the story of 1745 by the Keeper of the Records of Scotland from the papers of Major-General John Campbell, commander of the Government troops in Scotland at the time.
1998.320.29
Paperback book `Summer Hunting a Prince` by Alasdair MacLean and John S. Gibson.
The story of the escape of Charles Edward Stuart.
2000.225.8
Hardback book `Highland Resistance` by Iain Fraser Grigor.
The land-centred conflict in the Highlands of Scotland in the two centuries following the defeat of the Jacobite uprising in 1745.
2004.25.4
Hardback book `Scottish Islands` by Ian Grimble.
Illustrated history of the western and northern isles of Scotland by historian Ian Grimble.
2000.177.1
Audio cassette recording of Major Nicholas Bristol-MacLean talking in An Iodhlann in August 2000.
Major Nicholas Bristol-MacLean of Coll talks in An Iodhlann in August 2000 about his connection with Tiree through his great-great-uncle, the Rev. Neil MacLean (Maighstir Niall), who built the old manse at Gott, how Tiree is special to the MacLeans of Duart, about Alexander MacLean who fought at Killiecrankie and Dunkeld, the six year war between the MacLeans and Campbells in the 1670s, a rent collector by the name of Cameron, the changes in religion, the second sight, a collection of manuscripts and his MacLean genealogy.
2000.160.4
Hardback book `The Inner Hebrides and their legends` by Otta F. Swire.
Collection of stories and accounts covering the islands` legendary past before history and their nearer past carved by the turbulent clans. Includes a chapter on Tiree and Coll.
2000.160.3
Hardback book `The Outer Hebrides and their legends` by Otta F. Swire.
The legends, folklore and history of the outer Hebrides.
2003.139.2
Hardback book `Behold the Hebrides` by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor.
An account of wayfaring in the Hebrides by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor.