Dates: 1600s

1998.320.36

Paperback book `The Heather and the Gale` by Ronald Wiiliams.

The Clan Donald and Clan Campbell during the Wars of Montrose and how their differing strategies led to the confrontation where Gaeldom, Catholicism and the King wre overwhelmed by Calvinism and bloody revolution.

2000.183.3

Photocopied extract `The history of the seaweed industry: a miscellany of industries` by Ernest Booth.

The history of seaweed industry and the uses of agar, carrageen, feeding stuff and fertilisers.

2001.1.4

Paperback book `A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland circa 1695` by Martin Martin, 1703

Written by Martin Martin a native and Gaelic speaker, it casts light on the Hebrides when the old structure of society held sway before the Jacobite rebellions (for Tiree see pp 294-6). Includes Martin Martin`s `A Voyage to St Kilda`, and `A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland` 1549, by Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles, which presents an account of a pastoral visit to the islands still coping with the turbulent period after the fall of the Lords of the Isles.