Photocopied extract from unknown publication about the flora of Coll, Gunna and Tiree.
Results of a field study carried out by the Department of Botany, King`s College, University of Durham during 1939 and 1940.
2000.156.7
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Object Type: book extract
2000.156.8
Photocopied extracts from `Original Campanions` by Isobal Wylie Hutchinson, pp 1-73, 284-299.
First eight and final chapters of a story set in Tiree with an accompanying letter with information about the characters in the story.
2000.156.9
Photocopied extract from `Epics of Salvage` by David Masters, pp 157-164.
Account of the salvage operations on the `Laristan` which ran aground off Tiree in 1942.
2003.177.11
Photocopied extract from `The Clyde District of Dumbarton` by MacLeod in 1886.
Account of the North British Chemical Company`s works in Dumbarton which extracted the chemicals from the kelp charcoal produced in Tiree; photograph Curtis-Stanford with other Commissioners of the Burgh of Clydebank in 1886.
2001.97.7
Cases visited in Tiree during the Poor Law Inquiry of 1843
Transcription of an extract from the Minutes of Evidence of the Poor Law Inquiry in 1843 with notes of cases visited on Tiree.
Two Commissioners from the Poor Law Inquiry visited Tiree in 1843, one of whom was shown round a sample of thirty poor families across the island by a Mr MacLean of Hynish. Half of the cases visited were on the Poor Roll and received four to six shillings a year from the Parish.
By 1841 the population of Tiree had swelled to 4,961, double what it had been fifty years previously and more than the island could comfortably support. Nearly half the inhabitants were estimated to be living in deep poverty.
Widows with children and elderly spinsters were particularly vulnerable as were landless cottars without a trade. The able-bodied poor had no legal right to assistance and were expected to find employment on the mainland.
2003.130.15
Photocopied book extract `Tiree Tales` by Lord Archibald Campbell from `Records of Argyll`, pp vii-x, 249-264.
Tales collected from Tiree people and translated into English with an introduction by Lord Archibald Campbell.
2003.130.16
Photocopied book extract `Gaelic Poets of the Land Agitation` by Donald Meek from `Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness`, Vol. XLIX, 1974-6, pp 309-376.
Analysis of Gaelic poetry written at the time of land agitation between 1882 and 1888.
2000.86.47
Photocopied book extract `Observations on the birds of the islands of Tiree and Coll` by Lt.-Col. L. H. Irby.
Supplement to gamekeeper Peter Anderson`s list of Tiee birds.
2000.86.45
Photocopied book extract `Bird-life as observed at Skerryvore lighthouse` by James Tomson, Principal Light-keeper.
Account by the pincipal light-keeper on Skerryvore of the birds sighted from the lighthouse.
2000.86.46
Photocopied journal extract `The Birds of Tiree – Additional Records` by Annie C. Jackson.
Additions to gamekeeper Peter Anderson`s list of Tiree birds by Annie C. Jackson.