We’ve been researching Tiree’s history. World War One….. and like everywhere in Europe, Tiree was finding it tough. The Duke of Argyll owned large tracts of uncultivated land at that time, the Isle of Tiree his, and small holdings were once marked off by the Board of Agriculture (Scotland), but the scheme somehow fell through.
The islanders were during World War I growing food without his permission, and by March that year, the Duke interdicted them by law, but these were the hardest times, and islanders took little notice.
Reporters at the time commented in newspapers, “It would be more graceful on the part of his Grace if her were to open up his land to willing cultivators, putting the nation’s need before a ducal fancy.”
Our recreated image imagines these times.
