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A work in progress and a labor of love, theclearances.org offers stories and reminiscences about a two hundred year old blight on the Scottish Highlanders. Beginning in the eighteenth century, a concerted effort was made, for a variety of reasons, to move the Scots off their ancestral Highlands. That effort and the places in which it has occurred have come to be known as the Clearances. A sore...

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