Hardback book `Iona – The Living Memory of a Crofting Community 1750-1914` by E. Mairi MacArthur.
The economic and social history of the people of Iona from 1750 to 1914.
1999.291.22
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1999.297.8
Paperback book `A Dance called America` by James Hunter.
Account of what happened to the thousands of people who, over the last two hundred years, left the Highlands and Islands to make new lives in the United States and Canada.
2001.87.9
Paperback book `The Highland Clearances` by Eric Richards.
An account of the origins of the Clearances in the 18th century, the crofting legislation of the 1880s and how the the process of clearance was part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation.
2000.225.5
Paperback book `Atlas of Scottish History to 1707` edited by Peter G. B. Macneill and Hector L MacQueen.
Maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707.
1999.302.8
Paperback book `The People of the Great Faith` by Douglas Ansdell.
The history of the Church in the Highlands 1690-1900.
1998.320.39
Paperback book `Duanaire Colach` by Colm O Baoill.
Anthology of Gaelic poems and songs from Coll between 1537 and 1757.
1998.320.25
Hardback book `Tales of Whisky and Smuggling` by Stuart McHardy.
The story of the war between a hostile London government and large numbers of cottage whisky-makers, mostly in the Highlands.
De-accessioned 20.3.2026.
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.
2001.176.1
Account of the Clark family titled `Tiree Tales`.
Account of the Clark family and their connections to Tiree, with three family trees.
1998.320.33
Paperback book `Far Off In Sunlit Places` by Jim Hewitson.
Stories of the Scots in Australia and New Zealand.