1 The ruins of Castle Tioram in Loch Moidart in the western Highlands, the traditional seat of the Clanranald (Clann Raghnaill) branch of Clan Donald.2 The Cairn at Culloden Moor commemorating the decisive defeat there of Jacobite forces by the Hanoverian army on 17 April 1746, which is often seen as a major turning point in Highland history.3 The runrigs of Corsehill, Eglinton estate, Ayrshire, 1789, depicted by John Ainslie, and showing the pre-improvement landscape of intermingled strips of land rented by different tenants.4 A view of the Scottish Borders from Carter Bar. This was the first region in the country to experience substantial loss of population in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the expansion of large cattle and sheep farms.5Horsefair on Bruntfield Links, Edinburgh 1750. It was at a country fair such as this that the Galloway Levellers first planned their campaign of resistance.6 Culzean Castle, Ayrshire. Built in stages between 1772 and 1796 and designed by Robert Adam, this imposing edifice reflected the growing wealth of the Lowland Scottish aristocracy in the later eighteenth century.7 An improved farmsteading of the later eighteenth century, Wester Kittochside, South Lanarkshire, built in 1782–4, probably on the site of a traditional longhouse.8 The village of Tyninghame, East Lothian, built 1761. Numerous new settlements of this kind were established throughout the Lowlands in the eighteenth century, providing housing and employment for displaced small tenants and cottars.9 Ploughman and horse team, later nineteenth century. Skilled horsemen were the key workers of the new agriculture.10 Township of Ormsaigbeg, Ardnamurchan peninsula: a crofting settlement with individual strips of land running to the sea replacing the old system of communal agriculture.11 Private soldier of 42 Regiment of Foot in 1743, which was later to achieve fame as the Black Watch in the vanguard of British imperial expansion.12The Last of the Clan by Thomas Faed. This famous depiction of Highland emigration as tragedy does not fully capture the complex nature of the exodus.13 The ruins of the township of Arichonan, Argyll, cleared in 1848 and the scene of a famous act of resistance to eviction.14 The Hercules, which transported people from Skye, North Uist and Harris in 1852 to Australia at the time of the Highland potato famine. Many of the emigrants died of typhus or smallpox during the long voyage of 104 days.15 Marines landing at Uig in Skye 1884. Such was the perceived breakdown of law and order during the ‘Crofters War’ that the authorities sent troops to the island to restore stability.
