A Regular Revolution explores the making of the Moray countryside -
and offers an intimate portrait of people in the landscape on the
distant shoulder of northeast Scotland. A Regular Revolution traces
the progress through Moray of the craze for Improvement that swept
through Scotland during the later eighteenth century. Moray's
landowners applied Enlightenment rationalism to agricultural
practice and the rural environment. The countryside was redesigned:
from the fertile farmland of the coastal Laich of Moray, to the
rugged highland whisky country of Strathavon and Strathspey. Lochs
were drained and bogs reclaimed. Fieldscapes were replanned. New
crops were sown and new farming traditions took root. Naked
moorland was clothed with forestry, or colonised by doughty
settlers. Meanwhile, a Great Rebuilding regularised built
environments to a neoclassical template, establishing new
vernacular styles and a revolution in domestic comfort and
convenience.Moray's landhungry husbandmen were willing recruits to
their lairds' regular revolution; and even among landless cottars -
displaced from traditional townships, transplanted to new villages,
and proletarianised as agricultural labourers - there was scarcely
a murmur of dissent.
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