Books by Marjory Harper
Adventurers and Exiles
by Marjory Harper
A comprehensive account of the 19th-century exodus of almost two million men, women and children from Scotland to a new life overseas. When the clearances started, many people saw America as a land of opportunity, where they could obtain land, and landlords were trying to stop them emigrating. But after the potato blight in the 1840s the landowners just wanted to get rid of people, and they began shipping them across the Atlantic.
Interviews where books by Marjory Harper were recommended
The best books on The Highland Clearances, recommended by James Hunter
The Director of the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands and Islands talks to us about the history of the Highland Clearances in Scotland. Interesting reading on 19th Century Scottish history
