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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Pagina 167
... tenants . For example , a shieling in Glengarry had been let to local tenants for £ 15 a year , but a sheep farmer was able to offer a rent of £ 250 for it . The tenants having been evicted , the rental of the Glengarry estate increased ...
... tenants . For example , a shieling in Glengarry had been let to local tenants for £ 15 a year , but a sheep farmer was able to offer a rent of £ 250 for it . The tenants having been evicted , the rental of the Glengarry estate increased ...
Pagina 169
... tenants , impoverished themselves in attempting to support the tenants in their traditional way of life . Clanranald was finally forced to sell the last of his estates in South Uist in 1838. Lord MacDonald's lands in Skye and North Uist ...
... tenants , impoverished themselves in attempting to support the tenants in their traditional way of life . Clanranald was finally forced to sell the last of his estates in South Uist in 1838. Lord MacDonald's lands in Skye and North Uist ...
Pagina 196
... tenants . The popularity of grouse shooting dated from the second decade of the nineteenth century , when the flintlock muzzle - loading guns of the period demanded superb marksmanship for any success at all and bags were necessarily ...
... tenants . The popularity of grouse shooting dated from the second decade of the nineteenth century , when the flintlock muzzle - loading guns of the period demanded superb marksmanship for any success at all and bags were necessarily ...
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Illustrations | 9 |
Picts and Scots | 35 |
Gael Norse and Norman | 52 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
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