Category: News
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Luddite encroachments? archival musings By Alison Diamond
This blog was written by Alison Diamond, the archivist for Argyll Estates Archives, the family and estate archive of the Campbell family, earls and dukes of Argyll, and a key member of the project’s advisory committee. We are immensely grateful to Alison for her expert input. During their first visit to Inveraray Castle in September…
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Why is a historian of English rural protest studying Highland resistance? By Carl J. Griffin
This blog post was written by Professor Carl Griffin, Visiting Professor at UHI and Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex. Carl is also a lead on the ‘Resistance to improvement’ project. I am not a historian of Scotland. Nor am I a Scottish historian. I have no family connections to Alba. I…
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“Improvement” and the Dundee Meal Riots of 1773 by Christopher Whatley
Christopher Whatley is Emeritus Professor of Scottish History at the University of Dundee (c.a.whatley@dundee.ac.uk). Part of his published work has been on popular protest in Scotland. His most recent research project culminated in the publication of Harvie’s Dyke: The People, Their Liberty and the Clyde (John Donald, 2025), a study of one of the first…
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Some Early Archival Finds and Upcoming News
It has been a busy few months for the ‘Landscapes of Protest’ project team. Since officially launching the project back in Ullapool back in March, Juliette Desportes (RA) has completed two trips to the National Records and National Library in Edinburgh this Spring which produced some promising material. These early archival visits focused on two…
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‘Resistance to improvement’ launches in Ullapool
The Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands, was thrilled to officially launch ‘Resistance to ‘improvement’ in the Highlands and Islands, 1750- c.1820′ back in March 2025 in Ullapool. The launch marked the first in-person meeting of the research team, composed of Iain Robertson (UHI), Carl Griffin (University of Sussex) and Juliette Desportes…