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  2. Highland Clearances - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  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. Highland and Island Emigration Society - Wikipedia

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    In 1846, the Highland Potato Famine caused a crisis in the Highlands and the islands of Western Scotland, an area already struggling with overpopulation [2] [3] [4] and the upheavals of the Highland Clearances. The deaths from starvation were so high that, in 1848–1849, the government delivered shipments of oatmeal to locations along the ...

  6. The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil - Wikipedia

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    The reasons for the Clearances are explained and how they were enabled for the 'ruling classes' with the connivance of the church, the Law, the police and the military. It details where the people went: often to allotments on the seashore with wretched soil and conditions, where they were supposed to fish and gather kelp for the soda ash industry.

  7. Township (Scotland) - Wikipedia

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    Ruins of the township of Arichonan, forcibly cleared in 1848 as part of the Highland Clearances. Caol Scotnish can be seen in the middle distance with Loch Sween farther out. In Scotland a crofting township is a group of agricultural smallholdings (each with its own few hectares of pasture and arable land (in-bye land)) holding in common a ...

  8. Strathnaver Museum - Wikipedia

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    The effect of emigration, as a consequence of the Highland Clearances, also led to a decimation of the congregation. Rev David Mackenzie was minister of Farr during the time of the Sutherland Clearances, and as a Gaelic speaker he was tasked by Sutherland Estate to read eviction notices to the evicted tenants. Initially supportive of the ...

  9. T. M. Devine - Wikipedia

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    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 ...