Clans and Clearances

Submitted by jondwhite on November 1, 2018

Clans and Clearances Volume 1 by Alwyn Edgar has just been released (having been started in 1963) and reviewed in Socialist Standard and Socialist Studies
http://highlandclearances.com/

shug

6 years ago

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Submitted by shug on November 2, 2018

Tom Devine's latest book 'The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900' and his previous 'Clearance and Improvement' argue that the clearances were Scottish wide, and not just Highland. Indeed, while there were regional differences, clearances, evictions and enclosures were UK wide.

ajjohnstone

6 years ago

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Submitted by ajjohnstone on November 2, 2018

People tend to overlook the plantation of Ulster when the Union of the Crowns facilitated the expulsion of those recalcitrant Border reiver families.

jondwhite

6 years ago

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Submitted by jondwhite on November 3, 2018

Id like to know if this has had any impact on the mainstream history?

darren p

6 years ago

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Submitted by darren p on November 3, 2018

jondwhite

Id like to know if this has had any impact on the mainstream history?

What do you by "this"?

darren p

6 years ago

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Submitted by darren p on November 4, 2018

jondwhite

Clans and clearances vol 1

It's only just been published. So no.

ajjohnstone

6 years ago

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Submitted by ajjohnstone on November 4, 2018

https://socialist-courier.blogspot.com/2016/07/primitive-accumulation-1967-how-they.html

Alwyn Edgar's article Primitive Accumulation - How they got the Scottish Highlands

From the September 1967 issue of the Socialist Standard

Others from our Glasgow/Edinburgh blog on the topic

Clearing away the Scots
https://socialist-courier.blogspot.com/2012/05/clearing-away-scots.html

The Crofters War
https://socialist-courier.blogspot.com/2012/05/crofters-wars.html

jondwhite

6 years ago

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Submitted by jondwhite on November 8, 2018

Will there be a print edition?

darren p

6 years ago

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Submitted by darren p on November 8, 2018

jondwhite

Will there be a print edition?

Yes. Hopefully by the end of the year. If not, soon after.

darren p

5 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by darren p on July 27, 2019

If anyone's interested the hardback can now be preordered:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Q7FsoFNzU/

https://www.facebook.com/TheoryAndPracticePublishing/photos/a.1285106898200274/2509779222399696/?type=3&theater

Owentiffie

4 years 10 months ago

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Submitted by Owentiffie on January 9, 2020

This is a must-read. Recommended it to our neighbors as well.