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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 129-148 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Rural History |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 14 Sep 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Oct 2016 |
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Ferries in the Firthlands : Communications, Society and Culture Along a Northern Scottish Rural Coast (c.1600- c.1809). / Worthington, David.
In: Rural History, Vol. 27, No. 2, 31.10.2016, p. 129-148.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Ferries in the Firthlands
T2 - Communications, Society and Culture Along a Northern Scottish Rural Coast (c.1600- c.1809)
AU - Worthington, David
N1 - © Cambridge University Press 2016 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/open-access-policies/open-access-journals/green-open-access-policy-for-journals
PY - 2016/10/31
Y1 - 2016/10/31
N2 - This article identifies the social and cultural history of the early modern tidal water ferry, its skippers and passengers, by way of evidence from a northern Scottish rural coast. Evidence from the region’s ‘firthlands’ reveals an amphibious communications network which transformed gradually prior to the early nineteenth century. The article argues that the defining local topography of coastal adjacency both influenced, and was influenced by, the people who lived their lives within and around it. A system of short range communications over and between the estuaries and firths is highlighted from a Coastal Hisory perspective, leading to the examination of a ‘pluriactive’ microhistorical space, linking south-east Sutherland, the eastern edges of Easter Ross and the Black Isle and the Nairnshire seaboard. The article thereby opens up possibilities for comparison with other peoples, places and periods, in which being ‘alongshore’ was integral to rural community construction, coalescence, dynamism and friction.
AB - This article identifies the social and cultural history of the early modern tidal water ferry, its skippers and passengers, by way of evidence from a northern Scottish rural coast. Evidence from the region’s ‘firthlands’ reveals an amphibious communications network which transformed gradually prior to the early nineteenth century. The article argues that the defining local topography of coastal adjacency both influenced, and was influenced by, the people who lived their lives within and around it. A system of short range communications over and between the estuaries and firths is highlighted from a Coastal Hisory perspective, leading to the examination of a ‘pluriactive’ microhistorical space, linking south-east Sutherland, the eastern edges of Easter Ross and the Black Isle and the Nairnshire seaboard. The article thereby opens up possibilities for comparison with other peoples, places and periods, in which being ‘alongshore’ was integral to rural community construction, coalescence, dynamism and friction.
U2 - 10.1017/S0956793316000017
DO - 10.1017/S0956793316000017
M3 - Article
VL - 27
SP - 129
EP - 148
JO - Rural History
JF - Rural History
IS - 2
ER -