Before the Clearances, most Highland families lived in such townships, in a kind of collective, or joint-tenancy farm, housing perhaps a hundred or so people, who were often kinsfolk.

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 ...

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 as ...

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 B&B owner has been slammed for comparing “draconian” new legislation to the Highland Clearances. The scheme, which goes live on October 1, will require landlords of short-term let… ...

Scotland's vast estates were created on the misery of crofters and clansmen by a treacherous elite in league with the English. Ben Judah meets the land-grab rebels who want action to be taken.

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 ...

I knew that the Highland Clearances had been done in her name - that on witnessing the starving tenants, the 19th countess of Sutherland is said to have observed that "Scotch people are of happier ...