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The definition of "clearance" (as it relates to the Highland Clearances) is debatable. The term was not in common use during much of the clearances; landowners, their factors and other estate staff tended, until the 1840s, to use the word "removal" to refer to the eviction of tenants. However, by 1843, "clearance" had become a general (and ...
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.
Crofting communities were a product of the Highland Clearances (though individual crofts had existed before the clearances). Previously, Highland agriculture was based on farms or bailtean, which had common grazing and arable open fields operated on the run rig system.
He was cofounder in 1851, with Sir John McNeill, of the Highland and Island Emigration Society which during the second phase of the Highland Clearances supported an exodus of nearly 5,000 people to Australia between 1851 and 1858. [9] Trevelyan was Governor of Madras from 1859 to 1860, and Indian Finance Minister from 1862 to 1865.
In fact, the term "coffin ship" was popularized in the early 1870s by English Member of Parliament Samuel Plimsoll as part of his campaign for sailors' rights. It was later adopted by Irish nationalists during the Land War of the late 1870s and early 1880s as part of their twin campaign for land reform and political independence.
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Growing up in Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745, Lord Selkirk was constantly troubled by the plight of his Scottish kin. [3] Selkirk was influenced by humanitarians including William Wilberforce and, following the forced displacement of Scottish farmers that took place during the Highland Clearances, decided that emigration was the only viable option to improve the livelihood ...
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.