The story of how, in the space of seven or eight years in the early nineteenth century, the interior of a large Scottish county was forcibly depopulated, turning thousands of people out of their homes, which were then destroyed. It was planned and carried through by a small grou…
"The enforced depopulation of much of a Scottish county by its landlords, early nineteenth-century Britain's wealthiest couple, was an extraordinary episode. ... Identities and voices are restored to many of the thousands of men, women and children ... whose world was turned ups…
They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode involving the deliberate depopulation…