Valuable report on Scottish Highlands life now online

A 19th century document described as Scotland's Domesday Book has been made available online.

The Napier Report was written following a study into the lives of crofters in the Highlands and Islands in the 1880s...

It was a response to demonstrations against high rents, lack of security of tenure on land that had been in families for generations and the forced evictions of crofters.

The report's four volumes and appendices have gone live on http://www.highland-elibrary.com ...