While generally in sympathy with the sentiments expressed in the article from your contributor, Iain Macaskill Smith (The Herald, July 10), I really must take issue with him when he states: "Crofting ...

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The Shucksmith Committee of Inquiry into the future of crofting attempts to reconcile modern democracy with a nineteenth-century system of land tenure. For more than 100 years, crofting has been ...

The new chief executive of the Crofting Commission says the statutory body wants to help make it easier for people to work in the sector. Crofting is a system of land tenure and farming unique to ...

AN unprecedented data-gathering exercise seeking the views of owners and operators of Scotland’s 18,000 crofts has been launched to establish the state of the industry. Did you know with a Digital ...

The crofting system seemed a perfect marriage; the landowners who replaced the Clan Chiefs could no longer ask their tenants to raise arms, or provide other services for them, but they could make ...

Disclaimer: This is an archived article dated before Saturday 1 January 2022. As such, images and embedded content may be missing. Share: Crofting can be a conundrum. It was a modern improvement to ...

In the old days of the Celtic fringe, having your own cattle was a sign of wealth. A herd was like a bank vault full of gold. A friend of mine remarked that those were good old days as, although she ...

to understand crofting and what crofting is all about one has to have been in study for a good while. It also helps if a person was in study along with a person from a generation that crofted without ...

A century ago, visitors disembarked a ship alongside Portnalong pier at nightfall and climbed the hill to a new township, where their relations now lived. In the darkness, they saw head-height ...