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🗓️ 8 March 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:12.0 | I hope you enjoyed the programs. |
0:14.0 | Hello, the Highland clearances were an notorious episode in British history |
0:17.0 | that followed the failed Jacobine Rebellion of 1745 and lasted for ever a century. |
0:22.0 | In the Highlands and West Narners of Scotland, landlords cleared their estates |
0:26.0 | to make room for sheep farming, demolishing the old inland townships |
0:30.0 | and moving the people to the coast to fish, to weave, or to farm, |
0:34.0 | kelp for the estate. |
0:36.0 | When those businesses failed, there were more forced evictions or very hard choices |
0:39.0 | where landlords would cancel renters only if their tenants then migrated |
0:43.0 | to Canada, Australia or New Zealand. |
0:46.0 | A great part of the population was left with no land and a deep sense of betrayal. |
0:50.0 | We'd been to discuss the Highland clearances are Marjorie Harper, |
0:53.0 | Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, and Visiting Professor |
0:57.0 | at the University of the Highlands and Islands. |
0:59.0 | Murray Pittock, Bradley Professor of English Literature, |
1:02.0 | and Pro Vice-Pensable at the University of Glasgow, |
1:04.0 | and Sir Tom DeBine, Professor and Ministers of Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. |
1:09.0 | Tom DeBine, what were the first signs of what became known as the Highland clearances? |
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