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Professor Marjory Harper

Oral history captures the passion and strength of feeling of Scots who left the country for a better life in a way that written history can鈥檛 and the book draws on a remarkable fund of sources: letters, diaries kept on voyages, orphanage archives and oral testimony, much of it previously unpublished.

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