Dates: 1700s

2002.131.56

Hardback book `Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society 1700-1850` by T M Devine.

A challenge to the previously accepted view that industrialisaion and changes in agriculture and rural society in Scotland did not stimulate much unrest.

2000.9.2

Audio cassette recording of Angus MacLean, Scarinish, interviewed by Maggie Campbell in 2000.

Angus MacLean talks to Maggie Campbell about the crofts in Caoles going back to the 18th century, blacksmiths, boat-builders, stone masons and tailors, the mill in Caoles, standing stones and the stories and legends associated with them, the school and the many bards who came from there including Bard Thighearna Cholla.

2000.10.16

Book `Eigg – the Story of an Island` by Camille Dressler.

The story of Eigg and its inhabitants from earliest times to the present day, using written accounts, oral history, legends, song, and photographs. Covers crofting, clearances, clan battles, famine and changing landscapes until the community buy-out in June 1997.

2000.10.17

Book ` Islay – Biography of an Island` by Margaret Storrie.

History of Islay from early times to 1990s including placenames, landscape, transport, the Lordship of the Isles, the Cawdor Campbells, the First Shawfield Campbell, whisky and shipwrecks. With genealogical tables for the Campbells of Shawfield and Islay, and the Margadale Morrisons of Islay.

De-accessioned 1.3.2026.