The Highland Clearances Author:John Prebble This is the story of how Scottish chiefs and lairds preferred The Great Cheviot Sheet to the clansmen who had once been their warrior rent-roll. Between 1790 and 1850 a whole race was dispossessed and dispersed. The uprooting of the Highland people, and the final destruction of their society in favour of wool and mutton, was actively supported... more » by the Law and the Established Church.« less