Landscapes of Protest: Eighteenth-century Strathspey Gaelic in the archive
In the latest blog for UHI Centre for History's Landscapes of Protest project, Professor Sheila Kidd (University of Glasgow) tells us about a rare document entirely written in Gaelic lately discovered in the National Records of Scotland.
The document was written in the mid 18th century in the context of widespread illegal woodcutting on the estate of Strathspey belonging to the Grants of Grant. As Professor Kidd puts it, this 'marvellous find' suggests that 'the archives may hold other, as yet unidentified, estate papers written in Gaelic'.
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Landscapes of Protest: Resistance to 'improvement' in the Highlands and Islands is a Leverhulme Trust funded project led by UHI Centre for History. The project investigates how rural workers in the Highlands and Islands defended their livelihoods and ways of life in the age of radical ‘improvements’ which transformed the social and economic basis of Scottish agriculture, 1750 – c. 1820.