• 2008
  • 23m
Highlands

Summary A look at the Highland Clearances, the historical period which involved the forced displacements of the population of the Scottish Highlands in the 18th century, and the preceding religious and political events. View more details

  • 2008
  • 23m

Highlands

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : John Michie Ray Owens Jim Hunter Marjory Harper

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Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Apr 12, 2008

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : STV

Language : English

Production companies : History Channel SMG Productions

Summary A look at the Highland Clearances, the historical period which involved the forced displacements of the population of the Scottish Highlands in the 18th century, and the preceding religious and political events. View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Apr 12, 2008

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : STV

Language : English

Production companies : History Channel SMG Productions

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John Michie in Highlands (2008)

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Episode 1 • Apr 12, 2008
Episode #1.1
Taggart and Coronation Street star John Michie begins his journey at the Highland Folk Museum in the Cairngorms and visits Castle Urquhart on the banks of Scotland's famous Loch Ness.
Episode 2 • Apr 19, 2008
Episode #1.2
John Michie is in Fort William, continuing his journey through the history of the Scottish Highlands and talks of the complex wrangling with the monarchy in the second half of the 17th century.
Episode 3 • Apr 26, 2008
Episode #1.3
John visits Braemar Castle, near the site of the raising of the standard in support of James Stuart and later arrives at Glenfinnan, where Bonnie Prince Charlie landed to regain the throne.
Episode 4 • May 03, 2008
Episode #1.4
John's journey begins at Fort George just outside Nairn and continues up the stunning west coast to Ullapool where he finds out about the people who left the area in 1773, bound for Canada.
Episode 5 • May 10, 2008
Episode #1.5
John starts in Bettyhill on the most northerly coast of Britain, visiting the Strathnaver Museum then heads to Criock Church, where people sheltered following the Massacre of the Rosses in 1854.
Episode 6 • May 17, 2008
Episode #1.6
John Michie begins at Dunrobin Castle; the clan seat of the Sutherlands in the 19th century, a symbol of the wealth generated by the new economic changes sweeping the Highlands at that time.
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