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Old Photograph Crofter Washing Wool Isle Of Skye Scotland
Old photograph of a crofter washing wool on the Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Crofters on Skye made the news during the 1880s via a series of rent strikes and land raids organised as part of the fight for fairer land laws. This led them into sometimes violent conflict with the authorities. Along with three other men, John Macpherson was jailed in 1883 for his part in a dispute over the lease of Waterstein Farm in Glendale. Attempts were made to deliver more court orders in January 1883. When these failed, Malcolm MacNeill of Colonsay, an experienced civil servant, was dispatched by gunboat to negotiate with the people of Glendale. Led by Macpherson, four men agreed to stand trial and were sentenced to two months imprisonment in Edinburgh in March 1883.
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