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3 days ago · Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886. The Highland Clearances (Scottish Gaelic: Fuadaichean nan Gàidheal [ˈfuət̪ɪçən nəŋ ˈɡɛː.əl̪ˠ], the "eviction of the Gaels ") were the evictions of a significant number of tenants in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, mostly in two phases from 1750 to 1860. The first phase resulted from ...
- Lowland Clearances
The Lowland Clearances were one of the results of the...
- Run Rig
Run rig, or runrig, also known as rig-a-rendal, was a system...
- Scottish Agricultural Revolution
Frontispiece from Transactions of the Society of Improvers...
- Lowland Clearances
3 days ago · Scotland - Industrialization, Textiles, Shipbuilding: From the 1820s the Industrial Revolution was in full swing in Scotland, linked (in a way historians have not altogether disentangled) to a dramatic increase in population. There were perhaps a million people in Scotland at the beginning of the 18th century. By the beginning of the 19th century there were more than 1.5 million, and by the ...
22 hours ago · Highland Road and Bridges (Scotland) Act 1810 (repealed) 50 Geo. 3. c. 43. 2 June 1810.
1 day ago · v. t. e. The High Middle Ages of Scotland encompass Scotland in the era between the death of Domnall II in 900 AD and the death of King Alexander III in 1286, which was an indirect cause of the Wars of Scottish Independence. At the close of the ninth century, various competing kingdoms occupied the territory of modern Scotland.
2 days ago · Scotland - Celts, Vikings, Union: Evidence of human settlement in the area later known as Scotland dates from the 3rd millennium bce. The earliest people, Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) hunters and fishermen who probably reached Scotland via an ancient land bridge from the Continent, were to be found on the west coast, near Oban, and as far south as Kirkcudbright, where their settlements are ...
4 days ago · Scotland - Highlands, Islands, Culture: By 1800 the Highlands had become overpopulated relative to the means of subsistence. Many lairds, seeking to support their tenantry through the kelp industry, were ruined when it collapsed in the period from 1815 to 1825. Other landowners introduced sheep, sometimes violently removing their tenants in the “Highland Clearances”—as agents of the ...
4 days ago · The Scottish royal family tree is deeply rooted across history from the early days of the House of Alpin to the dramatic events of the 16th century. The Scottish throne has brought about many rulers with alluring anecdotes, who dealt with conflicts among Scottish nobles, battles with England, and sometimes even with their own families.
