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Lowland Clearances
The Lowland Clearances (1760s–1830s) emerged as a significant consequence of the Scottish Agricultural Revolution, which transformed the longstanding agricultural practices that had been prevalent...
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Highland Clearances
The Highland Clearances, often incorrectly linked to the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, saw Scottish landlords and clan chiefs forcibly remove a...
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Dress Act 1746
The Dress Act 1746, also known as the Disclothing Act, was a part of the Act of Proscription which came into effect on 1...
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Highland Services Act 1715 (Disarming Act)
The Disarming Act of 1715 was an Act of Parliament of Great Britain which was designed to curtail Jacobitism among clans in the Scottish...
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Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Act 1707
Our sovereign lady and the estates of parliament, considering that by the late act of parliament for a treaty with England for a union...
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Field Marshal George Wade
George Wade was born in 1673 in Killavalley, Westmeath, Ireland, and is best remembered as the father of the military road-building programme that he...
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Lord Lovat’s memorial to King George I
THE Highlands of Scotland, being a country very mountainous, and almost inaccessible to any but the inhabitants thereof, whose language and dress are entirely...
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Hugh Mackay of Scourie
Hugh Mackay of Scourie was born c.1640 and is best remembered for commanding Scottish government forces at the battle of Killiecrankie in 1689.
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General Wade’s Report on the Highlands
IN Obedience to Your Majesty’s Commands and Instructions under your Royal Sign Manual bearing date the 3rd day of July 1724, Commanding me to...
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Act of Proscription 1746
An Act for the more effectual disarming the Highlands in Scotland and for more effectually securing the Peace of the said Highlands; and for...
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Robert Campbell of Glenlyon
Robert Campbell, 5th Laird of Glenlyon, was born in 1632 and is best remembered for commanding the Scottish government forces that carried out the Massacre...
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Articles of Union 1707
Whereas Articles of Union were agreed on the Twenty Second day of July in the Fifth year of Your Majesties reign by the Commissioners...