The Vatersay Raiders

Author : Ben Buxton
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857904922
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vatersay Raiders written by Ben Buxton and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay in the Western Isles were imprisoned in Edinburgh for refusing to leave the island of Vatersay, where they had built huts and planted potatoes without permission. The case caused an outcry throughout Scotland, and led eventually to the purchase of the island by the government for crofting. This book, the first about Vatersay, tells the remarkable story of the raiders and their struggle to escape from the poverty which the policies of an absentee landowner forced them to endure. The Vatersay Raiders documents not only these events, which had enormous significance in the history of crofting, but also the fascinating earlier history of Vatersay and its now-deserted neighbour Sandray. An outline of more recent developments brings the account up to date.

Author : Ben Buxton
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857904922
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vatersay Raiders written by Ben Buxton and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scottish historian recounts how Hebridean croft farmers raided a neighboring island in order to survive—and sparked a national debate over land rights. In 1906, men from the Hebridean islands of Barra and Mingulay took possession of the uninhabited island of Vatersay. Two years later, they were imprisoned for refusing to leave—and for building huts and planting potatoes without permission. The case caused an outcry across Scotland, and the government eventually bought Vatersay for the purpose of croft farming. In the first book on the subject, historian Ben Buxton tell the full story of the Vatersay Raiders: their struggle to escape the oppressive policies of an absentee landowner, the raiding and settlement of the island, and the fraught process of dividing it up into crofts. The book also documents the larger history of Vatersay, from intriguing monuments of prehistory to shipwrecks and the 19th century evictions that left it uninhabited. An outline of subsequent developments, including the Vatersay Causeway which connects the island to Barra, completes the narrative.

Author : Keith Branigan
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445612267
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barra written by Keith Branigan and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Hebridean island of Barra through key turning points in the Island's long history.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accounts and Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 890 pages
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Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark McWilliams
Publisher : Oxford Symposium
ISBN 13 : 1909248622
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food and Landscape: Proceedings of the 2017 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery written by Mark McWilliams and published by Oxford Symposium. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of the 2017 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery includes 43 essays by international scholars. The topics included agro-ecology, food sovereignty and economic democracy in the agricultural landscape, argued by Colin Tudge, James Rebanks on family life as a hill-farmer in the Lake District, and many talks that illustrate Catalan historian Joseph Pla's axiom that 'Cuisine is the landscape in a saucepan'.

Author : Iain Fraser Grigor
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1849890455
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highland Resistance written by Iain Fraser Grigor and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highland Resistance takes as its subject the record of land-centred (and by implication culture- and nationality- centred) conflict in the Highlands of Scotland during the two and a half centuries since the Jacobite rising of 1745. The book tells the story of anti-landlord agitation and direct-action land-raiding from the great sheep-drives in Sutherland at the end of the eighteenth century, on through the anti-eviction resistance that characterised the worst years of the notorious Clearances, and on again by way of the huge crofters' agitation of the 1880s to continuing inter-war raiding and reform and the last great land-grab at Knoydart in the 1940s. By setting this record in its context Highland Resistance shows its continuing political and cultural importance to our own times, as Scotland and her reborn parliament enter a new century and a new millennium. The principal arguments of Highland Resistance are that there is a long and deep anti-landlord tradition in the Highlands; that this tradition has been under-pinned with an identity that can justly be identified as one of agrarian and cultural radicalism and nationalism; and that this tradition in one form or another lives on today, with a sharp and controversial resonance for the Highlands, and Scotland, of tomorrow.

Author : Mike Sullivan
Publisher : Pesda Press
ISBN 13 : 1906095094
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outer Hebrides written by Mike Sullivan and published by Pesda Press. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook contains 44 great sea kayak trips around the archipelago of the Outer Hebrides, Berneray to the Butt of Lewis and including St Kilda. The book presents all the navigational and tidal information a sea kayaker needs on this section of coast.

Author : Helen Webster
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912560313
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Island Bagging written by Helen Webster and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish Island Bagging by Helen and Paul Webster, founders of Walkhighlands, is a guide to the magical islands of Scotland. Focusing on the ninety-nine islands that have regular trips or means of access for visitors, plus fifty-five other islands which have no regular transport but are still of significant size or interest, the authors have described the best ways to experience each one. Of the islands featured, many are household names – Skye, Lewis, Bute – while some, such as the isolated St Kilda archipelago and the remote Sula Sgeir, will be unknown to all but a hardcore few. When it comes to things to see and do, the islands of Scotland have it all. Wildlife enthusiasts can watch out for otters, orcas and basking sharks, while birdwatchers in particular are spoilt: look out for the rare corncrake on Islay, sea eagles on Mull, or sight puffins, gannets, storm petrels and many other seabirds on any number of islands – although beware the divebombing bonxies. Foodies can sample Arran or Westray cheese, the many islands' world-renowned seafood or learn about the whisky making process and sample a wee dram on a distillery tour. While the human history may not stretch back in time as far as the geology of these ancient lands, it is rich and varied: visit the 5,000-year-old Neolithic village of Skara Brae on Orkney, or Mackinnon's Cave on Mull, following in the footsteps of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. You can even stay in the house on Jura where George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. Hillwalkers can bag a Munro, walk the wild clifftops or take in the sights, or you could just escape from it all on one of the dozens of beautiful and deserted beaches – before joining the locals for a ceilidh into the wee hours. Well served by ferries and other transport links, getting around is easy. You could even take the world's shortest scheduled flight. In Scottish Island Bagging, let Helen and Paul Webster be your guides to these enchanting isles.