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The Highland Clearances: How Scotland Lost Its People
In the decades after Culloden, Scotland's Highlands were transformed by a brutal economic and social upheaval: the Highland Clearances. Landlords, many of them clan chiefs, evicted thousands of tenant farmers to make way for more profitable sheep pastures. Entire communities were forced from their ancestral glens to coastal crofts, factory towns, or ships bound for Canada, Australia, and the United States. This episode traces the Clearances from their roots in the post-1746 crackdown through the infamous 'Year of the Sheep' in Sutherland under the Countess of Sutherland and her…
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