Clanship
By David Worthington
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This audio forms part of a series of audio interviews conducted in 2022 by Smartify as part of the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands project. Listen and discover the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands through the eyes of the people who live, work and visit here.
Learn about the complexities of the clan system and the changing face of clanship with Professor David Worthington - Head of the Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands.
Clanship evolves over time...there's no denying now that by the 17th century and the 18th century the Highlands was entangled so while you still had a very important sense of identity in terms of clanship and family name you also had an entanglement in empire...
Read the article Sugar, Slave-Owning, Suriname and the Dutch Imperial Entanglement of the Scottish Highlands before 1707 here.