Karen J. Cullen is Lecturer in Scottish History at the Centre for History, UHI Millennium Institute, the future University of the Highlands and Islands. She is author of a number of chapters and articles on the subject of famine in Scotland in the 1690s. Her current research interests lie in seventeenth and eighteenth century Scottish social, economic and demographic history.

Cullen’s work is a long awaited and hugely valuable contribution on Scottish famine. Contemporary debates on climate change and the terrible reality of famine in the world today means Cullen’s work has a contemporary relevance as well as a particular significance for those studying the pre-Union era.

• Introduction; 1. Scotland's Seven Ill Years: Contexts and Debates; 2. Climate, weather and agriculture: the making of a famine; 3. There arose a Dearth - the grain market in crisis; 4. Providing for the Destitute; 5. Famine: The Demographic Disaster; 6. Fleeing the Famine - migration and emigration; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.

Karen J. Cullen is Lecturer in Scottish History at the Centre for History, UHI Millennium Institute, the future University of the Highlands and Islands. She is author of a number of chapters and articles on the subject of famine in Scotland in the 1690s. Her current research interests lie in seventeenth and eighteenth century Scottish social, economic and demographic history.

Cullen’s work is a long awaited and hugely valuable contribution on Scottish famine. Contemporary debates on climate change and the terrible reality of famine in the world today means Cullen’s work has a contemporary relevance as well as a particular significance for those studying the pre-Union era.

• Introduction; 1. Scotland's Seven Ill Years: Contexts and Debates; 2. Climate, weather and agriculture: the making of a famine; 3. There arose a Dearth - the grain market in crisis; 4. Providing for the Destitute; 5. Famine: The Demographic Disaster; 6. Fleeing the Famine - migration and emigration; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.

Karen J. Cullen is Lecturer in Scottish History at the Centre for History, UHI Millennium Institute, the future University of the Highlands and Islands. She is author of a number of chapters and articles on the subject of famine in Scotland in the 1690s. Her current research interests lie in seventeenth and eighteenth century Scottish social, economic and demographic history.

Cullen’s work is a long awaited and hugely valuable contribution on Scottish famine. Contemporary debates on climate change and the terrible reality of famine in the world today means Cullen’s work has a contemporary relevance as well as a particular significance for those studying the pre-Union era.

• Introduction; 1. Scotland's Seven Ill Years: Contexts and Debates; 2. Climate, weather and agriculture: the making of a famine; 3. There arose a Dearth - the grain market in crisis; 4. Providing for the Destitute; 5. Famine: The Demographic Disaster; 6. Fleeing the Famine - migration and emigration; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.