MARJORY HARPER is Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, andVisiting Professor at the Centre for History, University of the Highlands andIslands. Her book Adventurers and Exiles won the Saltire Society Awardfor the Scottish History Book of the Year in 2004, and Scotland No More?was shortlisted for the same Saltire Society Award and won the University ofGuelph’s Frank Watson Prize. Her current teaching responsibilities focus ondirecting the University of Aberdeen’s innovative online Masters Programmein Scottish Heritage, which was launched in September 2017, and she isinvolved in an ongoing oral history research project, as well as research intohealth and migration.

Why have so many folk felt a need to quit Scotland and what happened to them after they left? To get answers to these questions, Marjory Harper did something that’s never before been done on so ambitious a scale. She travelled the world to meet, speak with and record the folk whose voices are central to this ceaselessly intriguing book. But Harper does much more than set down what she’s been told by her emigrant interviewees. A superb and highly readable historian, Harper ranges across the centuries to give additional context and meaning to the stories, thoughts and emotions she’s so memorably captured. – JAMES HUNTER, Emeritus Professor of History, University of the Highlands and Islands

MARJORY HARPER is Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, andVisiting Professor at the Centre for History, University of the Highlands andIslands. Her book Adventurers and Exiles won the Saltire Society Awardfor the Scottish History Book of the Year in 2004, and Scotland No More?was shortlisted for the same Saltire Society Award and won the University ofGuelph’s Frank Watson Prize. Her current teaching responsibilities focus ondirecting the University of Aberdeen’s innovative online Masters Programmein Scottish Heritage, which was launched in September 2017, and she isinvolved in an ongoing oral history research project, as well as research intohealth and migration.

Why have so many folk felt a need to quit Scotland and what happened to them after they left? To get answers to these questions, Marjory Harper did something that’s never before been done on so ambitious a scale. She travelled the world to meet, speak with and record the folk whose voices are central to this ceaselessly intriguing book. But Harper does much more than set down what she’s been told by her emigrant interviewees. A superb and highly readable historian, Harper ranges across the centuries to give additional context and meaning to the stories, thoughts and emotions she’s so memorably captured. – JAMES HUNTER, Emeritus Professor of History, University of the Highlands and Islands

MARJORY HARPER is Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, andVisiting Professor at the Centre for History, University of the Highlands andIslands. Her book Adventurers and Exiles won the Saltire Society Awardfor the Scottish History Book of the Year in 2004, and Scotland No More?was shortlisted for the same Saltire Society Award and won the University ofGuelph’s Frank Watson Prize. Her current teaching responsibilities focus ondirecting the University of Aberdeen’s innovative online Masters Programmein Scottish Heritage, which was launched in September 2017, and she isinvolved in an ongoing oral history research project, as well as research intohealth and migration.

Why have so many folk felt a need to quit Scotland and what happened to them after they left? To get answers to these questions, Marjory Harper did something that’s never before been done on so ambitious a scale. She travelled the world to meet, speak with and record the folk whose voices are central to this ceaselessly intriguing book. But Harper does much more than set down what she’s been told by her emigrant interviewees. A superb and highly readable historian, Harper ranges across the centuries to give additional context and meaning to the stories, thoughts and emotions she’s so memorably captured. – JAMES HUNTER, Emeritus Professor of History, University of the Highlands and Islands