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.
1999.299.14
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2000.225.8
Hardback book `Highland Resistance` by Iain Fraser Grigor.
The land-centred conflict in the Highlands of Scotland in the two centuries following the defeat of the Jacobite uprising in 1745.
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.
1998.320.23
Hardback book `On the Crofters` Trail` By David Craig.
Account of the Clearances and emigration to Canada.
2001.87.9
Paperback book `The Highland Clearances` by Eric Richards.
An account of the origins of the Clearances in the 18th century, the crofting legislation of the 1880s and how the the process of clearance was part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation.
1999.217.13
Hardback book `The Highland Clearances` by John Prebble.
The desertion and betrayal of the Highlanders by their clan chiefs and the resulting clearances.
De-accessioned 21.3.2026.
2000.64.7
Paperback book `The Survival of the Unfittest` by Robert Mathieson.
An account of the traumatic changes wrought by the Highland Clearances, examining nutrition health and disease and discussing reforms in religion, land tenure, medicine and healthcare.