Book Received: ‘Clans and Clearance – The Highland Clearances Vol.1’

‘Clans and Clearance – The Highland Clearances Vol.1’ by Alwyn Edgar

e-book published by Theory and Practice (www.theoryandpractice.org.uk). ISBN 978-0-9956609-3-9.

This volume (one of five) says the Preface, ‘looks at the clearances generally, and at some surprising orthodox beliefs about them; and then examines the Highland clans as they were before the Jacobite rebellion of 1745-6, an account which sometimes differs from what is now often affirmed’.

For a previous article by the same author on the same subject see: https://tinyurl.com/y75ey9y6