Beyond the Highland Line: Highland History and CultureConstable, 1991 - 236 pagini An historical and cultural guide to the Scottish Highlands, embracing the early Pictish inhabitants up to the present day. The author examines such topics as the history of the clans, depopulation and emigration, the tourist trade, and highland ecology. |
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... origins of the incoming families . The Bruces were Normans , from Brix , near Cherbourg ; the Balliols came from ... origin , who in the thirteenth century became one of the most powerful families in Scotland and especially in the ...
... origins of the incoming families . The Bruces were Normans , from Brix , near Cherbourg ; the Balliols came from ... origin , who in the thirteenth century became one of the most powerful families in Scotland and especially in the ...
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... origins . The Clan Campbell , like many others , had a mythical origin and a very much later historical figure responsible for establishing its fortunes . The Campbells were also not alone in having contradictory accounts of their ...
... origins . The Clan Campbell , like many others , had a mythical origin and a very much later historical figure responsible for establishing its fortunes . The Campbells were also not alone in having contradictory accounts of their ...
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Highland History and Culture Caroline Bingham. The origins of this conflict dated from the Union of Crowns of 1603 . The ... origin and Presbyterian by preference . Between 1603 and his death in 1625 James paid only one return visit to ...
Highland History and Culture Caroline Bingham. The origins of this conflict dated from the Union of Crowns of 1603 . The ... origin and Presbyterian by preference . Between 1603 and his death in 1625 James paid only one return visit to ...
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Illustrations | 9 |
Picts and Scots | 35 |
Gael Norse and Norman | 52 |
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Alasdair Alasdair MacColla Alexander ancient Angus Óg Argyll army Balliol battle became best-dressed Highlander Bishop Caledonians Campbell cattle Celtic Celts chiefs Christian Church Clan Donald clansmen crofters crown Dalriada David defeated descendants drovers Duke Earl earldom Edinburgh eighteenth century England English feudal followed Gaelic Gaels Glen Gordon Gordon Donaldson Grant and Cheape Hebrides Highland dress Highland Line Highland regiments Highlands and Islands History I.F. Grant Ibid Inverness Iona Ireland Irish Islay Jacobite Jacobite Rising James VI James VII John kilt kindred King of Scots kingdom Kintyre land later Loch Lord Lordship Lowland MacDonald MacGregor MacKenzies MacPherson Malcolm Malcolm MacHeth Mór Moray nineteenth century Norse Orkney Ossian Pictish Picts plaid poem possession Prince Charles Edward Queen Roman Ross royal Scotland Scottish sheep Skye society Somerled Statutes of Iona Stewart stone Stuart survived Sutherland symbols tartan tenants tradition victory warriors Western Isles