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The Highland Clearances: Sellar and the Cost of Progress
We trace the human cost of Scotland’s agricultural revolution through Patrick Sellar, the estate factor who became the face of the Highland Clearances. In the late 1700s, the Duke of Sutherland and his manager sought to replace tenant farming with sheep ranching, a shift that uprooted thousands from their ancestral lands in Strathnaver and Brora. This episode explores the brutal enforcement of these evictions, focusing on the infamous case of the MacLeods of Garvagh, whose burning cottage sparked national outrage and legal proceedings. We examine how economic pragmatism clashed with moral…
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