Highland Clearances
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Strathnaver Museum in Bettyhill, Sutherland, explores the histories of the local Clan Mackay, agricultural life and the Highland Clearances, a period of history which saw families removed from land where they had lived for generations.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2022
Sinclair’s discursive, intensely literate prose knits together time and place, drawing parallels between stolen Indigenous land and the Highland Clearances that left his own Scottish forebears dispossessed.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2021
Starting as a trickle, the migration rose to a torrent amid the Highland Clearances, in which tenant farmers in Scotland were evicted from their lands by property owners.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2016
They drew a parallel with the poetry and paintings of the 18th and 19th Highland Clearances.
From BBC • Oct. 13, 2013
Not just the forgetting-to-mow-the-lawn sort but a more radical rethink – repopulating the forgotten corners with wolves or elk or Dalmatian pelicans, undoing the agricultural subsidy system, reversing the Highland Clearances.
From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2013
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