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  2. Highland Clearances - Wikipedia

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    The clearances were condemned by many [citation needed] writers at the time, and in the late 19th century they were invoked in opposition to the enormous power of landlords under Scottish law and calls for land reform related to crofting, notably in Alexander Mackenzie's 1883 History of the Highland Clearances.

  3. List of clearance settlements in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of any town, village, hamlet and settlements in Scotland, that were cleared during the 18th and 19th centuries as part of the Highland Clearances. The Clearances were a complex series of events occurring over more than a hundred years. [1]

  4. Category:Highland Clearances - Wikipedia

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  5. John Prebble - Wikipedia

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    The Highland Clearances, Secker & Warburg, 1963; Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre, Secker & Warburg, 1966; The Lion in the North: A Personal View of Scotland's History, Penguin Books, 1973, ISBN 0-14-003652-0; Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire (also published as Darien: A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698–1700), 1968, about the Darien ...

  6. Patrick Sellar - Wikipedia

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    Plaque in Inverness. Patrick Sellar (1780–1851) was a Scottish lawyer, factor and sheep farmer. He had a prominent and controversial role in the Highland clearances as factor on the Sutherland Estate, a particularly large landholding in the Scottish highlands.

  7. Bernera Riot - Wikipedia

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    The Bernera Riot occurred in 1874, on the island of Great Bernera, in Scotland in response to the Highland Clearances.The use of the term 'Bernera Riot' correctly relates to the court case which exposed the maltreatment of the peasant classes in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and exposed the corruption that was inherent in the landowning class.

  8. Strathrusdale - Wikipedia

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    Termed the Highland Clearances, this coincided with a period of great unrest and social upheaval in Europe, which unsettled the authorities in Britain. Strathrusdale became the focus of the clearance policy in 1792 when on the 27th of July the inhabitants of the strath gathered for a wedding in the area where a plot was devised to drive away ...

  9. Emily Gordon Cathcart - Wikipedia

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    Painting from 1876 Cluny Castle in Aberdeenshire was part of the estate inherited by Lady Gordon Cathcart. Emily Eliza Steele Gordon, Lady Cathcart (née Pringle; 6 August 1845 – 8 August 1932) was a Scottish aristocrat known for her association with the Highland Clearances.