Paperback book `Saoghal Ur` by Calum MacMhaoilein.
Story about Lewis emigrants to North America in the 20th century.
1999.314.14
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1999.291.6
Paperback book `The Last Stronghold` by Margaret Bennett.
The Scottish Gaelic traditions of Newfoundland, Canada.
2000.50.5
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.
1999.297.8
Paperback book `A Dance called America` by James Hunter.
Account of what happened to the thousands of people who, over the last two hundred years, left the Highlands and Islands to make new lives in the United States and Canada.
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.
1998.320.33
Paperback book `Far Off In Sunlit Places` by Jim Hewitson.
Stories of the Scots in Australia and New Zealand.
1998.320.23
Hardback book `On the Crofters` Trail` By David Craig.
Account of the Clearances and emigration to Canada.
1999.297.7
Paperback book `Glencoe and the Indians` by James Hunter.
A real-life family saga which spans two continents, several centuries and more than thirty generations to link Scotland`s clans with the native peoples of American West.
De-accessioned 20.3.2026.
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.
1998.320.24
Paperback book `Scotland Farewell: The People of the Hector` by Donald MacKay.
The story of the Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1773 on board the `Hector` and who pioneered the largescale emigration of Scots to Nova Scotia.