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Roger Hutchinson

Martyrs

Glendale and the Revolution in Skye

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In the 1830s and 1840s the district of Glendale on the island of Skye was swamped by immigrants cleared from other north Skye estates. The resultant overcrowding and over-use of land caused simmering discontent - not against the incomers, but against the landowners, who regarded their tenants as no more than chattels. This book is a definitive account of what happened when the powder-keg erupted and a full-scale land-war ensued. Pitched battles with police, factors and bailiffs, military intervention, arrests, trials, imprisonment and the personal intervention of the Prime Minister were to have huge consequences for crofters all over the High… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-85790-880-3
  • EAN: 9780857908803
  • Produktnummer: 19951402
  • Verlag: Birlinn
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 236 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'646 KB

Über den Autor


Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning author and journalist, who has written for, amongst others, the West Highland Free Press, the Scotsman, Guardian, Herald and the Literary Review. He has written a number of bestselling books, including Polly: the True Story behind Whisky Galore, The Soap Man, which was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year (2004) and Calum's Road (2007), which was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.

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