RESOURCES
This page contains recommendations for books, articles, historical documents and other publications that may be of interest to our members.
We will add to this list from time to time, and recommendations are most welcome.
Books
The Highland Clearances Trail
By Rob Gibson
1983, reprinted 2017
Luath Press Ltd, Edinburgh
On the Other Side of Sorrow - Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands
ByJames Hunter
2014
Birlinn Ltd, Edinburgh
Consider the Lilies - A Novel
Iain Crichton Smith
1968, reprinted 2001
Orion Books Ltd, London
Night Falls On Ardnamurchan, The Twilight of a Crofting Family
Alasdair MacLean
2001, reprinted 2017
Birlinn Ltd, Edinburgh
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World
Arthur Herman
Crown Publishing Group, Three Rivers Press, 2001
The Invention of Scotland – Myth & History
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Yale University Press, 2009
Great Battles: Culloden
Murray Pittock
Oxford University Press, 2016
The Scots in Australia
Malcolm Prentis
University of New South Wales Press, 2008
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Articles
The Highland Clearances and the Politics of Memory (Thesis)
Daniel Guy Brown
2014
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
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Historical Documents
'Dinner and Ball at Dunmaglass'
Inverness Courier
November 11, 1858. p6
From British Newspaper Archives
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'Emigration from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland'
Victorian Parliament, Australia
1852