ABSTRACT
This book was born out of the realisation that there were two interlinked significant issues within Highland protest after 1914 which demanded further attention. The first was that post-1914 disturbance was of considerably greater significance and complexity than has been allowed hitherto. From this and from the range of issues and questions exposed by this close questioning, came the twinned realisation that it no longer seemed tenable to pursue grand narratives of class and hegemony by way of protest interpretation. This is by no means an isolated epiphany as it mirrors the trajectory of protest studies more generally. As recently articulated by Katrina Navickas, in our new histories of protest class is by no means abandoned; it is simply made more nuanced, recognised as complexly manifest in protest, and accepted as but one possible register of identity amongst many others.1
