Much has been written about the decline of the United Kingdom. The Two Unions looks
instead at the lengthy survival of the Union, examining the institutions, structures, and …

From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of World War I, the Sutherland Estate was the
largest landed estate in western Europe; at 1.1 million acres, the ducal family owned almost …

In November 1918, the implementation of agrarian change in the Scottish Highlands
threatened another wave of unemployment and eviction for the land-working population …

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website
and the OAPEN library. The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, the first national …

In this paper we explore the intertwined issues of improvement and community relations
within the context of the Colony site, a nineteenth-century informal settlement in Scotland …

Irish land in the 1880s was a site of ideological conflict, with resonances for liberal politics
far beyond Ireland itself. The Irish Land War, internationalised partly through the influence of …

The Shetlander is proud of his Viking descent… The people of Shetland do not understand
Gaelic. There are no" Macs" among them. The bagpipes are an importation… Whisky is not …

Highland factors were men of immense influence–social, political and economic–over often
extensive territories and populations. The factor was the symbolic figure of estate authority …

The historian of the Scottish land question has to tread a careful line between emphasising
distinctiveness and recognising the generic elements of the problem. Indeed, a plausible …

In late 1909, the liberal Russian newspaper Birzhevye Vedomosti expressed the fear that
Finland could become 'Russia's Ireland'. The implication was that by restricting the …