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Crofting and Land Reform |
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“No true patriot can watch the disappearance of the small farmer from our country without regretting the necessity – if it indeed be a necessity – which demands that the many small farms shall be merged into a few large ones”.
“Scottish Life And Character”, Dobson, H.J. & Sanderson, Wm, London, 1919, p117
While the face of crofting had changed forever, it was a way of life that had not died out entirely. By the middle of the 1850’s the Clearances were all but over, but those that remained in the Highlands were faced with insecurity, both in terms of what had happened to so many of their clansmen, and the fear of a repeat of the famine which swept Ireland in 1845-50. Eventually, it was nature rather than man that tipped the scale. In 1882 the potato crop failed and gales destroyed the grain. Unsure who to blame for this latest setback, the crofters took it out on their old enemy – the land owners.
For the next few years, inspired by similar action in Ireland, the crofters took action into their own hands. They began 6 years of agitation known as “The Crofter Wars”. Unrest spread across the area, with land raids and rent strikes, but it was events on Skye that gained notoriety
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