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In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent industrialist Lord Leverhulme, whose name lives on today within the multinational company Unilever, bought-lock, stock and barrel-the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionize the lives and environments of its thirty thousand people, and those of neighboring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate. For the next five years, a state of conflict reigned in the...
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The true story of an uprising against wealthy landowners in early nineteenth-century Scotland.
In the 1830s and 1840s, the district of Glendale on the Scottish island of Skye was swamped by immigrants cleared from other north Skye estates. The resultant overcrowding and over-use of land caused simmering discontent-not against the incomers, but against the landowners, who regarded their tenants as no more than chattels.
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