John Murdoch

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Iain MacMhuirich, Murchadh na Feilidh

John Murdoch (1818 – 1903) was a Scottish newspaper owner and editor and land reform campaigner who played a significant part in the campaign for crofters rights in the late 19th century. He was born in Ardclach, Nairn and brought up on Islay. He served as an exciseman in Ireland and Lancashire. He retired to Inverness and from 1873 until 1881 ran the campaigning newspaper, The Highlander.

Murdoch believed that a vicious system of land ownership was at the root of all ills in the Highlands and this could only be changed by the crofters or peasants taking the lead and standing up for themselves in a campaign for land reform. In common with other campaigners for Highland land reform Murdoch maintained that the crofters had an inalienable right to the land which, they asserted, had belonged to the clan as a whole and had not been the personal property of chief. He argued that a sustained attack on the Gaelic language and culture had all but destroyed the self-confidence and morale of the i…more

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	The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600 - 1900 by T.M. Devine 4.04 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 2018 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not to Build a Railway by Andrew Drummond 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2020 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Claim of Crofting: The Scottish Highlands and Islands, 1930 - 1990 by James Hunter really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1991 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Company I’ve Kept: Essays in Autobiography by Hugh MacDiarmid 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1966 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For the People's Cause: From the Writings of John Murdoch, Highland and Irish Land Reformer by John Murdoch liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1986 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calgacus 2: Summer 1975 by Ray Burnett (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1975 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars