Old Photograph Islanders With Soa Sheep Outside Cottage St Kilda Outer Hebrides

Old photograph of islanders with Soa sheep outside a cottage on St Kilda, Scotland.

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For more than 2000 years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Its society was viable, even Utopian; but in the nineteenth century the island was discovered by missionaries, do gooders and tourists, who brought money, disease and despotism. St Kildan culture gradually disintegrated and in 1930 the few remaining islanders asked to be evacuated. Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St Kilda.