Paperback book `The Heather and the Gale` by Ronald Wiiliams.
The Clan Donald and Clan Campbell during the Wars of Montrose and how their differing strategies led to the confrontation where Gaeldom, Catholicism and the King wre overwhelmed by Calvinism and bloody revolution.
Paperback book `The Lords of the Isles` by Ronald Williams.
The story of the establishment of Dalriada by Fregus Mor in AD 500 to the forfeiture of the Lordship a thousand years later.
| Tags: early scotland , feudal and clan organisation | | Dates: 1000s , 1100s , 1200s , 1300s , 1400s , 1500s , 500s , 600s , 700s , 800s , 900s | | Object Types: book | Paperback book `From Chiefs to Landlords` by Robert A. Dodgshon.
Social and economic change in the western Highlands and Islands 1493-1820.
Booklet `The Changing Role of the House of Argyll in the Scottsih Highlands` by Eric Cregeen.
Assessment of the role of the house of Argyll in the Highlands between 1680 and 1806. Front cover inscribed `With best wishes, Eric Cregeen`.
| Tags: cattle , civil wars and clan battles risings , feudal and clan organisation , kelp , land tenure , livestock , religious foundations and conflicts , sheep , tacksmen | | Dates: 1600s , 1700s , 1800s | | Object Types: book extract | | People: Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Archibald, Tiree (1658 - 1703) , Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, John, Tiree (1680 - 1743) , Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Archibald, Tiree (1682 - 1761) , Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, John, Tiree (1694 - 1770) , Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, John, Tiree (1723 - 1806) |