Andrew Fleming specialises in prehistory and landscape archaeology. He taught at Sheffield University for 27 years and then at the University of Wales Trinity St David. His previous books include T
he Dartmoor Reaves (Batsford, 1988),
Swaledale: Valley of the Wild River (EUP, 1998) and
St Kilda and the Wider World: Tales of an Iconic Island (Windgather Press, 2007).
When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at 'the edge of the world' lost its permanent population after five millennia.It has long been accepted that the islanders' failure to adapt to the modern world...
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