Croft History

The Remaking of Community: Crofting, Forestry and the Construction of the Crofter-forester
By Alison Brown
The Remaking of Community: Crofting, Forestry and the Construction of the Crofter-forester
Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances: Homicide, Eviction and the Price of Progress
By Richards Eric Richards
Hobsbawm , E. , The Age of Revolution ( London , 1962 ) . Houston , R. A. , ' Scottish Education and literacy , 1600-1800 : an international perspective ' , in T. M. Devine ( ed . ) , Improvement and Enlightenment ( Edinburgh , 1989 ) .
A View from the Croft
By Marina Dennis
A View from the Croft
Finlay MacQueen of St Kilda
By William Reginald Mitchell
Deals with remote island life on St Kilda and the character of Finlay MacQueen, a crofter from the island who later settled in Fife, speaking only Gaelic.
The Glens of Silence: Landscapes of the Highland Clearances
By David Craig
In this book, David Craig and photographer David Paterson provide a written and visual record of around 25 of the communities throughout the Highlands and Islands that were abandoned.