James Hunter to talk about Sutherland Clearances

06 November 2012

‘Inhuman Treatment: One Family’s Experience of the Clearances in Sutherland’ is the next Centre for History's’ public lecture.

Emeritus Professor of History of James Hunter will be giving the talk on Wednesday, 14 November 2012 at 5.15pm in the Archive Centre (Bught Road, Inverness. He will look in detail at one family’s grim experience of what it meant to be evicted from their Strathbrora community – that eviction leading, in this family’s case, to a little girl’s death and to her father’s mental breakdown.

Professor Hunter, the author of twelve books about the Highlands, also touches on parallels between events in nineteenth-century Sutherland and what’s happening today in parts of Africa – where, he says, the organisers of the clearances would feel perfectly at home.