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Prebble's obituary in the Daily Telegraph said "he was often accused of ignoring economic factors in his analysis of social change, but his books, though unashamedly partisan, were based on thorough research". [4] Tom Devine reports the opinion of historians that Prebble's Highland Clearances was under-researched and lacking in critical ...
Prebble, John (1963) The Highland Clearances, Secker & Warburg. ISBN 978 0140028379 (This is the seminal work that brought the subject to modern attention. Later historical work corrects and challenges many points in this book.) Richards, Eric (2000). The Highland Clearances: People, Landlords and Rural Turmoil, Birlinn Books. ISBN 978 1 78027 ...
Prebble, John (1985). The Highland Clearances. London: Secker and Warburg. Prentis, Malcolm (1983). "The Emigrants of the Highland and Island Emigration Society, 1852–1857". Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society. 69. Prentis, Malcolm (2008). The Scots in Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. ISBN 9781921410215.
Namier, Lewis & Brooke, John (1964, republished 1985) The House of Commons 1754-1790. Seeker & Warburg, London. Prebble, John (1963) The Highland Clearances. Penguin, London. ISBN 0-14-002837-4; Sinclair, John (1813) An Account of the Highland Society of London, from its establishment in May 1773, to the commencement of the year 1813. B ...
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed 1600–1900 (2018), as the use of the word "Scottish" in its title was intended to indicate, addresses not only the Highland Clearances, well known in Scottish history from the middle 20th century onwards because of the works of John Prebble but also (in the view of academic historians ...
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]
Pages in category "Highland Clearances" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... John Gordon (soldier) H. Hielanman's Umbrella;
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.