A Country Emptied
Ian Jack: The Highland Clearances, 7 March 2019
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed 1600-1900
by T.M. Devine.
Allen Lane, 464 pp., £25, October 2018,978 0 241 30410 5 Show More
by T.M. Devine.
Allen Lane, 464 pp., £25, October 2018,
“... frequent mutilation: a memorial that was reviled long before anyone thought to take a hammer to Cecil Rhodes.From events like these, a general picture can be constructed of poor Scots driven overseas (the Sutherland evictees eventually left the country) by a combination of ruthless landlordism and what Devine characterises as ‘the brazen subordination of ... ”