The Highland Clearances: Explained (Short Animated Documentary)
The Scottish Highlands used to have a sizeable population. But now they re barely populated at all, so what happened? Well, the Highland Clearances happened, that s what. Find out what that was and who was effected in this simple, short animated history documentary. A special thanks to all of these Patrons below, without whom the show wouldn t be possible: Franco La Bruna Patrick M. Kevin Sanders Stefan Møller Gregory - The Bittersteel Ian Jensen Richard Wolfe Chris Fatta anon sharpie660 D. Mahlik Dragan Wold Qi Xiao John Garcia Ariadni Voulgari Andrew Niedbala Rod D. Martin Paul McGee Bernardo Santos Christopher Godfrey Jeannette Baechle Tristan Kreller Warren Rudkin Magdalena Reinberg-Leibel Danny Anstess Christopher S Nelson Chris Hall Shaun Pullin Perry Gagne bas mensink Alen James Bisonette Fan #1 Joooooshhhhh Henry Rabung Troy Schmidt Adam Barrett William Wold Cap I’m Not In The Description Blake Dryad Lachlan FF Nelly Mark Ploegstra Lim Gilleece FuzzytheFair Roman Cascioppo Jeffrey Schneider Luke Robinson Kinfe85 Byzans_Scotorius Haydn Noble TooMuchWaterYouDie MrPalomino HelloAgainThere Josh Cornelius ColmBoyle Colin Steele Big Nick Richard Manklow Gabriel Lunde Julian Baumann Konstantin Bredyuk João Santos Donald Weaver Richard Hartzell Steve Bonds Nick Finan Christine Purvis Pierre Le Mouel Seth Reeves Nathan Perlman StukaJi86 SirAlpaka Andrew Miraut Sources: Sir William Johnson, Highland Scots, and American Indians by Colin G. Calloway From Family Roots to the Routes of Empire: National Tales and the Domestication of the Scottish Highlands by Juliet Shields Highland Migration to Lowland Scotland, 1760-1860 by T. M. Devine