Roger Hutchinson
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Publisher
Birlinn
Language
English
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His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people, and those of neighbouring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate. For the next five years a state of conflict reigned in the Hebrides. Island seamen and servicemen returned from the war to discover a new landlord whose declared aim was to uproot their identity as independent crofter/fishermen and turn them into tenured wage-owners. They fought back, and this...
Author
Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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St Kilda is the most romantic and most romanticised group of islands in Europe. Soaring out of the North Atlantic Ocean like Atlantis come back to life, the islands have captured the imagination of the outside world for hundred of years. Their inhabitants, Scottish Gaels who lived off the land, the sea and by Birdcatching on high and precipitous cliffs, were long considered to be the Noble Savages of the British Isles, living in a state of natural...
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Publisher
Origin
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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From 1918 to the modern day, Roger Hutchinson tells the story of the Stornoway Trust, and of the people who guided their pioneering estate into the relative security and prosperity of the 21st century. In doing so he paints a vivid portrait of a unique landholding experiment, of Highland land struggle and of the island of Lewis itself.
13) The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker: the story of Britain through its census, since 1801
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In 'The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker', Roger Hutchinson looks at every census between the first in 1801 and the latest in 2011. He uses this much-loved resource of family historians to paint a vivid picture of a society experiencing unprecedented changes.
Author
Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The unique way of life and customs of its inhabitants has generated an enormous amount of literature over a period of hundreds of years. Kenneth Macaulay's book is one of the most significant works ever written about the islands, and is a description of what he saw there on his visit of 1763, at which time the island population had dwindled to just 88. In addition to giving vivid descriptions of the islanders themselves and their living conditions,...