Martyrs: Glendale and the Revolution in Skye

The true story of an uprising against wealthy landowners in early nineteenth-century Scotland.

In the 1830s and 1840s, the district of Glendale on the Scottish island of Skye was swamped by immigrants cleared from other north Skye estates. The resultant overcrowding and over-use of land caused simmering discontent—not against the incomers, but against the landowners, who regarded their tenants as no more than chattels.

This book is a definitive account of what happened when the powderkeg e...