Instead of listing my whole library, which would lead a little bit too far, and since these pages are mostly concerned with the Outer Hebrides, I would like to recommend a few books which I found extremely helpful or interesting to read in order to understand why life in the Western Isles of Scotland is the way it is today.

A

Ashton, J. & Long, W.H. (ed.), The remoter rural areas of Britain, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1972
Atkinson, R., Island Going, Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, 1949/95

B

Buchanan, Rev. John Lane, Travels in the Western Hebrides from 1782-1790, MacLean Press, Waternish,Skye, 1793/1997
Butt, J. & Pershing, K., Scottish Textile Industry, Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen, 1987

C

Caird, J.B., The Isle of Harris, Scottish Geagraphical Magazine, 1951, 85-100,
Caird, J.B. & Moisley, H.A., Leadership and Innovation in the crofting communities of the Outer Hebrides, Sociology Review 9/85-102, 1961
Callander, Robin, How Scotland is owned, Canongate Books Ltd., Edinburgh, 1998
Charnley, Bob, The Western Isles - A postcard tour, MacLean Press, Portree, 1992/95
Cooper, Derek, The Road to Mingulay- A View of the Western Isles, Routledge& Kegan Paul plc/Warner Books, London, 1985/95
Craig, David, On the Crofters' Trail- in search of the clearance highlanders, Jonathan Cape/Pimlico, London, 1990/97
Cramb, A., Who owns Scotland, Mainstream Publ., Edinburgh & London, 1996

D

Darling, F.F., West Highland Survey, area study 035, 1955
Devine, T.M., Clanship to Crofter's War - a social transformation of the Scottish Highlands, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1994
Devine, T.M., Exploring the Scottish Past, Themes in the History of Scottish Society, Tuckwell Press, 1995
Devine, T.M., Scottish Elites, Proceedings of the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar, John Donald Publ., Edinburgh, 1994
Devine, T.M., The Transformation of Rural Scotland - Social change and the agrarian economy 1660-1815, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1994
Devine, T.M.& Mitchison, R., People and Society in Scotland 1760-1830, Vol. 1/3, John Donald Publishers & Economic and social history society of Scotland, Duncan, A., Hebridean Island - Memories of Scarp, Tuckwell Press, Phantassie, 1995

E

Ennew, J., The Western Isles today, Dept. of social Anthropology, Uni Camebridge, Camebridge University Press, Camebridge, 1980

F

Fraser, W.H. & Morris, R.J., People and Society in Scotland 1830-1914, Vol. 2/3, John Donald Publishers & Economic and social history society of Scotland
Ferguson, D., Scotland's Ressources - a Survey, Scottish Convention, Glasgow, 194?

G

Geddes, A., Burghs of laich and brae, Scottish Geographical Magazine 61/38-45,
Graham-Campell, D., Argylland and the Southern Hebrides, Robert Hale Ltd., London, 1978
Grant, I.F., The Lordship of the Isles - Wanderings in the Western Isles Lordships, Moray Press, Edinburgh, 1935
Grant, J.S., A shilling for a scowl - The history of a Scottish legal mafia, acair, Stornoway, 1992
Grant, J.S., Discovering Lewis and Harris, John Donald Publ., Edinburgh, 1987/98
Gregory, D., The History of the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland, John Donald Publ., Edinburgh, 1881
Grimble, I., Chief of the Mackay, saltire society, Edinburgh, 1965/93

H

Haswell-Smith, Hamish, Scottish Islands, Canongate Books Ltd., Edinburgh, 1998 /96
Heckmann, F., Boswick, W., Migration Policies: a Comparative Perspective, Enke, Bamberg, 1995
Hetherington, A., Highlands and Islands - A Generation in Progress, Uni Press Aberdeen, Aberdeen, 1990
Hunter, J., The Making of the Crofting Community, John Donald Publ., Edinburgh, 1976/82/87/95
Hutchinson, P.H., Rural growth and centre policy: a case study of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, unpubl. PhD thesis, Uni Glasgow, Glasgow,

J

Jackson, A., The Pictish Trail - a traveller's guide to the old Pictish kingdom, The Orkney Press, Kirkwall, 1989
Jones, D.T. et al, Rural Scotland during the war, Oxforf University Press, London, 1926

M

MacCuish, D.J., Crofting Legislation since 1886, Scottish Geographical Magazine Vol. 103 No 2,
MacCuish, D.J., Ninty years of crofting legislation, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, 50/296-326, 1976-78
MacCuish, D.J., The Origin and Development of Crofting Law, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, 43, 181-196, 1962
MacDonald, D., Lewis - a History of an Island, Gordon Wright Publ., Edinburgh, 1978/83/90
MacGregor, A.A., The Western Isles, Robert Hale Ltd., London, 1949
MacGregor, B.D., The Highland Problem: the difficulties in development in a remote rural area, unpubl. MSc thesis, Herriet Watt Uni, 1978
McHardy, Stuart, Tales of Whisky and Smuggling, Lochar Publ., Moffat, 1991
Maciver, T., Croft remote, Pentland Press, Durham, 1994
MacKenzie, Alexander, History of the Highland Clearances, A&W.MacKenzie/Mercat Press, Inverness/Edinburgh, 1883/1997
Mackenzie, J.M., Diary 1851 of John Munro Mackenzie, Chamberlain of the Lews to sir James Matheson, acair, Stornoway, 1994
MacKillop, Donald (Domhnull MacPhilip 'ic Phaic), Sea-names of Berneray (Ainmean-Mhara Bhearnaraigh), Bookmag, Inverness, 1990, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Vol LVI
MacLean, C., Rural Renaissance - a Scottish Highland case study, MSc by research, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1995
MacPhail, I.M.M., The Crofter's War, acair, Stornoway, 1989
Martin, M., A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland ca. 1695, and a voyage to St. Kilda (1698), A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland by Sir Donald Munro1774, Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, 1994
Mitchison, Rosalind, Lordship to Patronage - Scotland 1603-1745, Edward Arnold Publ./Edinburgh Uni Press, Worcester/Edinburgh, 1983/90
Moisley, H.A., The Deserted Hebrides, Scottish Studies 10/44-68, 1966
Moisley, H.A., The Highlands and Islands - A crofting Region, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31/83-95, 1962
Murray, William H., The Islands of Western Scotland: The Inner and Outer Hebrides, Eyre Methuen, London, 1973

N

Nicolson, N., Lord of the Isles, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1960
Nown, Graham, Laphroaig - no half measures, GB Publ. Ltd., Dumbarton, 1997

P

Prebble, J., The Highland Clearances, Martin Secker & Warburg / Penguin, 1963/69
Prebble, J., The Lion in the North- A personal view of Scotland's history, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1971/73

R

Rea, F.G., A school in South Uist - reminiscences of a Hebridean Schoolmaster, 1890-1913, Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, 1997
Ritchie, A., Scotland BC, HMSO, Edinburgh, 1988/92/94
Ritchie, G. & A., Scotland - Archeology and early history, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1991
Ross, Stewart, Monarchs of Scotland, Lochar Publishing Ltd., Moffat, 1990
Royal Commission (HMSO), Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the conditions of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands of Scotland, C. 3980. HMSO, London, 1884

S

Sanders, P., A Nation of Home Owners, Unwin Hyman Ltd., London, 1950/90
Sharkey, J., The Road through the Isles, Wildwood House Ltd., Aldershot, Hants, 1986
Shaw, J.P., The new rural industries: water power and textiles, The Making of the Scottish countryside 291-317, Croom Helm, London, 1980
Smout, T.C., A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830, Collins/Fontana, 1969/72
Smout, T.C., Scotland since Prehistory - Natural Change and Human Impact, Scottish Cultural Press, Aberdeen, 1993
Steel, T., The Life and Death of St. Kilda, Fontana Press, 1975
Storrie, M.C., Islay: a Hebridean Exception, Geographical Review 51/87-108,

T

Thompson, F., Harris and Lewis. Outer Hebrides, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1968, 1973
Thompson, F., In Hebridean Seas, Tynrock Press, Leicester, 1994
Thompson, F., St Kilda and other Hebridean outliners, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1970
Thompson, F., The Uists and Barra, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1974
Turnock, D., Historical Geography of Scotland since 1707, Cambridge University Press, 1982
Turnock, D., Scotland's Highlands and Islands, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1974

W

Willis, D., The Story of Crofting in Scotland, John Donald Publ., Edinburgh, 1991/95
Wilson, George Washington, Scottish Fishing, Aberdeen University library & Malcolm Gray, Aberdeen, 1982

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