Paperback book `The Great Highland Famine` by T. M. Devine.
A detailed account of the clearances of the 19th century, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration.
1999.317.1
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2001.144.1
Photocopied book `Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse` by Alan Stevenson.
Photocopied account of the building of Skerryvore lighthouse with notes on the illumination of lighthouses by Alan Stevenson, plus a chart of the position of the Skerryvore rocks and plans of the rocks themselves at high and low water and the complex at Hynish (in two folders).
1999.299.13
Paperback book `Croft History – Isle of South Uist, Volume 2` by Bill Lawson.
The croft history of South Uist listing the inhabitants of the crofts in each township.
De-accessioned 26.2.2026.
1999.299.2
Paperback book `Clann-Nighean an Sgadan` by Tormod Calum Domhnallach and Leslie Davenport.
The story of the Scottish herring girls in the 19th and early 20th century.
1999.299.8
Paperback book `Letters from the Highlands` by Robert Somers.
Collection of letters written in 1847 during a `tour of inquiry` into the effects of the potato famine in the Highlands and published in the North British Daily Mail.
De-accessioned 20.3.2026.
2000.225.9
Paperback book `Contempt, Sympathy and Romance` by Krisztina Fenyo.
An examination of the attitude of Lowland Scots to Highland Gaels in the 19th century as expressed in the press.
2000.50.9
Paperback book `The Great Highland Famine` by T. M. Devine.
A detailed account of the clearances of the 19th century, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration.
1999.299.14
Hardback book `Tuath is Tighearna – Tenants and Landlords` edited by Donald E. Meek.
Anthology of Gaelic poetry from 1800 to 1890 dealing with the Clearances and the Land Agitation, with English translations.
2001.152.1
Copy extract `Nineteenth Century Tiree Emigrant Communities in Ontario` by Margaret MacKay from `Oral History`, Vol. 9, No. 2, Autumn 1981, pp 49-60.
Account of the emigrant communities from Tiree in Ontario from oral and documentary sources.
2004.13.3
Hardback book `Adventurers & Exiles` by Marjory Harper.
Comprehensive account of the `Great Exodus` in the century before WWI when two million men women and children left Scotland for a new life overseas.