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Black and white photograph of a traditional stone cottage with a thatched roof, set on a rocky coastal landscape overlooking the sea, with distant hills and scattered buildings across the water.

Who were the Estate Ground Officers of the Highland Clearances?

The study asks and answers the vital questions: Who were these men and how were they selected?

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • December 1, 2025
A circular sheep stell (shelter) at Wagmore with Morven hill behind

Langwell, Caithness: an exemplar of the Highland economy

William Parente explores the challenges faced by Highland communities in the time of the Clearances

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • October 8, 2025
Landscape photograph of a heather-covered valley with mountains on either side. There is a small bridge in the middle-distance and two people holding clipboards and looking at the land in the foreground.

Wicked Wild Wastes?: challenging contemporary ideas of wildness in Scottish Highland landscapes

Dr Edward Stewart looks to the past to suggest an alternative future for Scotland's 'wild' places.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • September 4, 2025
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The ‘Curious Cleric’ and the Highlands Before Culloden: Rev. James Fraser (1634-1709) – Q&A

by David Worthington Tell us a bit about your book. It offers a different perspective on the Highlands in the century before the Battle of Culloden in 1746, by focusing on the life-writing of a maverick, Gaelic-speaking, scholar, traveller and…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • January 17, 2023

Remembering the history of Scottish land reform

By Ewen Cameron I was delighted to publish Freshness, Freedom, and Peace?: Land Settlement in Scotland after the Great War  in Northern Scotland, 2nd series, 11.2 (2020), 161–75. This was a special issue arising from a stimulating conference held at…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • February 15, 2021

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