THE HIGHLAND Clearances are an infamous chapter in Scottish history, the cruel story of how the Highland people were dispossessed of their homes by their landlords. So emotive is the subject that ...

Find out what caused the Highland Clearances and the effect this had on crofting families. A BBC BItesize Scotland history guide for primary school pupils learning at Second Level in Curriculum ...

It was made as he pressed his signet ring into hot red wax, the seal then used to secure the letters of the man who has long been aligned to the worst excesses of the Highland Clearances.

The Highland Clearances remain an evocative subject in Scotland to this day, with lurid stories of cruel tacksmen forcing the poor Highlanders from their land and the evictions being described ...

Differing perceptions of the Highland and Lowland Clearances are to be examined at a lecture in Sutherland. Professor Tom Devine will explain to an audience in Dornoch how events in the north ...

A memorial statue to those affected by the Highland clearances has been officially unveiled. First Minister Alex Salmond attended a ceremony to remember the clearances in Helmsdale, on the Sutherland ...

The Highland Clearances and land reform in Scotland: The country's semi-feudal great estates face reform. Scotland's vast estates were created on the misery of crofters and clansmen by a ...

I'd been tipped off about a bundle of letters buried within the vast archive of the Sutherland estate concerning one Mrs Doar, housekeeper to the… ...

Carys Davies tackles the Scottish Clearances in 'Clear' : NPR's Book of the Day In the 1840s, a Scottish minister named John Ferguson accepts the task of traveling to a remote island to evict Ivar ...