The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme - Softcover
In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people, and those of neighbouring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate. For the next five years a state of conflict reigned in the Hebrides. Island seamen and servicemen returned from the war to discover a new landlord whose declared aim was to uproot their identity as independent crofter/fishermen and turn them into tenured wage-owners. They fought back, and this is the story of that fight. The confrontation resulted in riot and land seizure and imprisonment for the islanders and the ultimate defeat for one of the most powerful men of his day. The Soap Man paints a beguiling portrait of the driven figure of Lord Leverhulme, but also looks for the first time at the infantry of his opposition: the men and women of Lewis and Harris who for long hard years fought the law, their landowner, local business opinion and the entire media, to preserve the settled crofting population of their islands.
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Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning author and journalist who has written a number of bestselling books, including Polly: the True Story behind Whisky Galore, The Soap Man, which was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year (2004) and Calum’s Road (2007), which was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize.
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Hutchinson sets his canvas alight . . . he combines into one coherent narrative all the mighty forces that clashed and washed over the population of Lewis in the early 20th century' (Sunday Herald)
Magnificent . . . Roger Hutchinson is a master wordsmith' (West Highland Free Press)
Readable as a novel, rich in insights . . . has resonance far beyond the lives of its subjects' (Herald)
Magnificent . . . Roger Hutchinson is a master wordsmith' (West Highland Free Press)
Readable as a novel, rich in insights . . . has resonance far beyond the lives of its subjects' (Herald)
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- Publication date2006
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