{"title":"E. Patricia Dennison, The Evolution of Scotland's Towns: Creation, Growth and Fragmentation","authors":"C. Macleod","doi":"10.3366/NOR.2021.0238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NOR.2021.0238","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41375333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article is a hybrid of various forms of prose, conventional historical narrative, memoir, and family history. It links World War I land agitation in the Scottish Highlands with later imaginings and rememberings of the region's land use politics, and with their enduring significance. At its heart is one small croft on the Isle of Skye and one Skye family. These are anchored in one of the many land raids of the Great War era and through it they connect with other crofting families, with the longer history of the region's land politics, and with the Highland Diaspora.
{"title":"On Skye and the Promised Land, 1914–2014: Personal History and Highland Land Politics","authors":"C. M. Parratt","doi":"10.3366/NOR.2021.0235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NOR.2021.0235","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a hybrid of various forms of prose, conventional historical narrative, memoir, and family history. It links World War I land agitation in the Scottish Highlands with later imaginings and rememberings of the region's land use politics, and with their enduring significance. At its heart is one small croft on the Isle of Skye and one Skye family. These are anchored in one of the many land raids of the Great War era and through it they connect with other crofting families, with the longer history of the region's land politics, and with the Highland Diaspora.","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47023801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ysanne Holt, David Martin-Jones and Owain Jones, Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago: Imagining Islands","authors":"Johannes Riquet","doi":"10.3366/NOR.2021.0241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NOR.2021.0241","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49427126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Aberdeenshire-born Niel Malcolm ‘Callum’ McLean was an individual who rose to prominence in European mercantile circles in the colonial Indonesian port of Surabaya in the interwar decades of the twentieth century. In discussing his life and times, the paper reflects on a number of larger themes, pertaining chiefly to empire and to the Scots’ diaspora, understood not only in terms of dispersal but also of return. McLean, it argues, was a new kind of ‘expatriate’. Thanks not least to improved global communications, he was able to maintain a presence not only in ‘the East’ but also on his native turf in Aberdeenshire.
{"title":"A Colonial Port, a Caledonian Wedding and the Scots’ Diaspora: Callum McLean (1903–1990) as Businessman in Surabaya and Laird in Aberdeenshire During the Inter-War Decades","authors":"G. Knight","doi":"10.3366/NOR.2021.0233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NOR.2021.0233","url":null,"abstract":"The Aberdeenshire-born Niel Malcolm ‘Callum’ McLean was an individual who rose to prominence in European mercantile circles in the colonial Indonesian port of Surabaya in the interwar decades of the twentieth century. In discussing his life and times, the paper reflects on a number of larger themes, pertaining chiefly to empire and to the Scots’ diaspora, understood not only in terms of dispersal but also of return. McLean, it argues, was a new kind of ‘expatriate’. Thanks not least to improved global communications, he was able to maintain a presence not only in ‘the East’ but also on his native turf in Aberdeenshire.","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44213102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Todd Westbrook, Revolution: A Short Sharp History of Scottish Wind Power – And Where it Goes From Here","authors":"M. Davidson","doi":"10.3366/NOR.2021.0239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NOR.2021.0239","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45716705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In April 1746, only weeks after th e decisive defeat of the Jacobite army at Culloden, a British warship, HMS Triton, stopped the Gordon, a suspicious-looking ship off Scotland's northwestern coast, near Skye. The strange craft proved to have been taken over on a voyage to America by its human cargo of Irish indentured servants – men, women and children – some 113 souls, with the intention of joining the Stuart rebel forces in Scotland. After taking the servants as prisoners, Captain Brett of the Triton had to confront the question of how to clear his ship of the unwelcome guests, a dilemma that included such questions as ownership, jurisdiction, claims to compensation, and lines of authority. After weeks of frustration, all was finally resolved by the discharging the bulk of the prisoners to Carrickfergus Castle. Brett was able to resume his naval duties, and most of the servants were soon back on their way to a life in the colonies. This incident, minor as it was in itself, is a possibly unique example of political expression by members of the Irish underclass during the Jacobite insurrection of 1745.
{"title":"‘A Very Difficult Troublesome Affair’: Some Unlikely Help for the Pretender","authors":"Robert Cain","doi":"10.3366/NOR.2021.0234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NOR.2021.0234","url":null,"abstract":"In April 1746, only weeks after th e decisive defeat of the Jacobite army at Culloden, a British warship, HMS Triton, stopped the Gordon, a suspicious-looking ship off Scotland's northwestern coast, near Skye. The strange craft proved to have been taken over on a voyage to America by its human cargo of Irish indentured servants – men, women and children – some 113 souls, with the intention of joining the Stuart rebel forces in Scotland. After taking the servants as prisoners, Captain Brett of the Triton had to confront the question of how to clear his ship of the unwelcome guests, a dilemma that included such questions as ownership, jurisdiction, claims to compensation, and lines of authority. After weeks of frustration, all was finally resolved by the discharging the bulk of the prisoners to Carrickfergus Castle. Brett was able to resume his naval duties, and most of the servants were soon back on their way to a life in the colonies. This incident, minor as it was in itself, is a possibly unique example of political expression by members of the Irish underclass during the Jacobite insurrection of 1745.","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44139805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John W. M. Bannerman, Kinship, Church and Culture: Collected Essays and Studies","authors":"Pamela O’Neill","doi":"10.3366/NOR.2021.0237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NOR.2021.0237","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41898696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alex Benchimol and Gerard Lee McKeever, Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707–1840","authors":"H. Mathison","doi":"10.3366/NOR.2021.0240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NOR.2021.0240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46205844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gordon Noble and Nicholas Evans, The King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce","authors":"Kelly A. Kilpatrick","doi":"10.3366/nor.2020.0224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2020.0224","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42617873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}