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The Highland Clearances: Scotland's Displacement and Diaspora
Episode 190 of The Story of Scotland delves into one of the most painful chapters in Scottish history: the Highland Clearances. From the late 18th to mid-19th centuries, thousands of Highlanders were forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands to make way for sheep farming. Lucas and Luna explore the driving forces—landlords like the Sutherland family and the infamous factor Patrick Sellar—and the human cost: the broken communities, the burning of homes, and the mass emigration to Canada, Australia, and the industrial Lowlands. They discuss the resistance at Strathnaver, the role of the…
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