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Crofters’ War

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    In Scotland: The Highlands of Scotland

    …beginning in 1882 (the “Crofters’ War”), secured an act of 1886 that gave the crofters security of tenure and empowered a Crofters’ Commission to fix fair rents, though it did little to make more land available to crofters. (Further legislation in 1911 and 1919 helped to alleviate this problem.)…

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