Paperback booklet `Crofter Power in Easter Ross` by Rob Gibson.
The story of the Land League at work in Easter Ross between 1884 and 1888.
1998.320.31
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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.
1999.299.2
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.
1999.299.13
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.
2001.132.1
Booklet `The Tiree Crofters` Struggle` written by Ailig MacArthur in July 1986.
Account of the Tiree crofters` struggle for land reform written by Ailig MacArthur of Heylipol in 1986, the centenary year of the Crofters Act.
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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.
2001.75.12
Photocopied feu charter for ground for Balemartine School dated 1886 (Bundle 2501).
Feu charter of 1886 in favour of the Tiree School Board for a piece of ground in Balemartine to build a Public School.