
Glenesk
The History and Culture of a Scottish Glen
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Glenesk
The History and Culture of a Scottish Glen
About this book
Glenesk is one of the most beautiful of the Angus glens. Though surrounded by high peaks in its upper reaches and seemingly remote, it is no isolated backwater. A network of hill-paths through the Mounth links Glenesk to Deeside and neighouring Angus glens, while its lower end opens out to the low country of the east. This is one reason why the Glen is so rich in the relics of life and work of the people who have lived there and who have passed through it from early times onwards.
This is the story of an upland, rural community, told from the perspectives of the people themselves and covers almost every aspect of glen life. From the distant past to modern day, the book looks at people's changing relationships with the landscape, the buildings they lived, worked and worshipped in and the tools they used.
Official documents record the effects of the famine and wars of the 17th-century, and the deprivations suffered either at the hands of marauding Highland caterans or the renegade offspring of their landlords. The text is complemented by many origianl, period photographs which portray the everyday life of the Glen.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Margaret Fairweather Michie 1905–85: A Memoir
- Introduction
- 1. Shaping the Glen: The Physical Background
- 2. Prehistoric Sites and Ways
- 3. Lords of the Glen
- 4. Pre-Eighteenth Century Land Use
- 5. Eighteenth Century Farming: The Beginning of Change
- 6. The Parish Church
- 7. The Kirk’s Care of the Poor
- 8. The Episcopal Church
- 9. The Free Church
- 10. Teaching the Bairns
- 11. Land Use and Labour: The Nineteenth Century
- 12. Summer Grazings and Illicit Stills
- 13. Sport and Game
- 14. Hearth and Home
- 15. People and Places
- 16. Population Change from 1700
- 17. Leaving the Glen: New Homes Abroad
- 18. Recent Days
- 19. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index