Paperback book `The Mobile Scot` by Jeanette M. Brock.
A study of Scottish emigration and migration 1861-1911based on a thesis which won the Hume Brown prize for Scottish history.
2000.50.5
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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.
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.
1998.320.10
Paperback book `Tales and Travels of a School Inspector` by John Wilson.
Account of the experiences of a school inspector in the Highlands and Islands during the latter half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
De-accessioned 26.2.2026.
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.
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.
2001.74.17
Photocopied handwritten paper by Professor Donald Meek about Rev John Gregorson Campbell.
Handwritten paper by Prof. Donald Meek about Rev John Gregorson Campbell and 19th century Gaelic folklore.
2001.75.1
Photocopied minutes of the meeting of the Tiree School Board in 1873 (Bundle 1539).
Minutes of the Tiree School Board held in the Temperance Hotel in Scarinish on 6th June 1873 and chaired by Rev John Gregorson Campbell.
2001.75.7
Photocopied letter to the Duke of Argyll from John M. M. Geekie dated 3/2/1875 (Bundle 1808).
Letter to the Duke of Argyll from John M. M. Geekie dated 3/2/1875 about an offer for the Temperance Hotel in Scarinish by John MacLean, merchant of Scarinish, the poor state of the hotel under the management of Lachlan MacQuarrie, and the death of Mrs Barr of Belphetrish.