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The Royal Society of Edinburgh Henry Duncan Prize Lecture: The Highlands: Scotland’s Great Success Story By James Hunter (Director, UHI Centre for History) Monday 3 September 2007 Summary In 1979, I met an elderly crofter in Sutherland, devoted to Gaelic. I assumed he’d be voting for Scottish home rule, but he was unalterably against it. ‘Why?’ I asked. ‘Well,’ he said, ‘in London they might not give a damn about Highlanders. But in Edinburgh they hate us.’ Once Highlanders were hated here in Ed

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