Highland Potato Famine
The Highland Potato Famine was a period of 19th century Highland and Scottish history (1846 to roughly 1856) over which the agricultural communities of the Hebrides and the western Scottish Highlands saw their potato crop (upon which they had become over-reliant) repeatedly devastated by potato blight. It was part of the wider food crisis facing Northern Europe caused by potato blight during the mid-1840s, whose most famous manifestation is the Great Irish Famine, but compared to its Irish counterpart it was much less extensive (the population at risk was never more than 200,000) and took many fewer lives (prompt and major charitable efforts by the rest of the United Kingdom ensured that there was relatively little starvation). The terms on which charitable relief was given, however, led t
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Highland Potato Famine
The Highland Potato Famine was a period of 19th century Highland and Scottish history (1846 to roughly 1856) over which the agricultural communities of the Hebrides and the western Scottish Highlands saw their potato crop (upon which they had become over-reliant) repeatedly devastated by potato blight. It was part of the wider food crisis facing Northern Europe caused by potato blight during the mid-1840s, whose most famous manifestation is the Great Irish Famine, but compared to its Irish counterpart it was much less extensive (the population at risk was never more than 200,000) and took many fewer lives (prompt and major charitable efforts by the rest of the United Kingdom ensured that there was relatively little starvation). The terms on which charitable relief was given, however, led t
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La Famine de la pomme de terre ...... ord au milieu des années 1840.
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La carestia delle patate in Sc ...... 'incirca nello stesso periodo.
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The Highland Potato Famine was ...... he area between 1841 and 1861.
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La Famine de la pomme de terre ...... adie grave et crise financière
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La carestia delle patate in Sc ...... 'incirca nello stesso periodo.
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The Highland Potato Famine was ...... lief was given, however, led t
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Carestia delle patate in Scozia
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Famine de la pomme de terre dans les Highlands
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Highland Potato Famine
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