Treatment of Those On Menie Estate Is Reminiscent of the Clearances

The HeraldOctober 03, 2009

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LIKE many of your readers, I have often heard commentators expounding on the iniquity of the Highland Clearances and denigrating the actions of the then Duke of Sutherland.

Within the past few days, I happened to see a documentary which related, in a very positive way, the story of how the crofters of Assynt acquired their forebears' lands from the Vestey family.

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Treatment of Those On Menie Estate Is Reminiscent of the Clearances

Consequently, I have been somewhat surprised at the limited comment on The Herald's Letters page rega...

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