Landscapes of protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914: the later Highland Land Wars

In November 1918, the implementation of agrarian change in the Scottish Highlands threatened another wave of unemployment and eviction for the land-working population, which led to widespread and varied social protest.

Those who had been away on war service (and their families) faced returning to exactly the same social and economic conditions in the Scottish Highlands they had hoped they had left behind in the struggle to make 'a land fit for heroes'.

Widespread and varied social protest rapidly followed.

It argues that, previously, there has been a failure to capture fully the geography, chronology typology and rate of occurrence of these events.