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Keith
Branigan.
From
Clan to Clearance.
Oxbow,
2005.
ISBN
1842171607.
Hardback.
252pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £30.00
This large,
well-illustrated book is the culmination of fifteen years of historical
and archaeological research into the history of Barra and its people
from the time of the Vikings to the notorious clearances of 1850/51, as
revealed by archaeology and hundreds of historical documents tucked
away in archives in Scotland, England, Italy and Canada. The book
describes the homes and workplaces of the population from Kisimul
Castle and Eoligarry House, to the blackhouses and shielings of the
ordinary clansmen. It pieces together their way of life, and for the
first time uses archaeology to reveal just what it was like to live in
a blackhouse. There is also a special study of the township of
Balnabodach, one of the most romantic settings in the whole of the
Hebrides where one of the most notorious dramas of the Clearances was
played out. There is also a chapter by renowned Canadian historian J L
Bumsted.
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