Highland Clearances

British  

plural noun

1. Also called: the Clearances.  in Scotland, the removal, often by force, of the people from some parts of the Highlands to make way for sheep, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

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Highland Clearances

The notorious Highland Clearances saw people removed from large areas of land, including in Sutherland.

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

Burnet says he does know a lot about the real laird but he was not a "particularly notorious landlord" and the Applecross estate had not been part of the Highland Clearances.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2017

Mealista, or Mealasta in the Gaelic spelling, is a small township in the west of the Isle of Lewis that has been uninhabited since the Highland Clearances of 1838.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2017

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