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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Highlands
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Mountainous region of northern Scotland which has no exact boundaries on the map. It is usually said to be that part of the mainland lying north of a line between Dumbarton on the Firth of Clyde and Stonehaven on the east coast; but it excludes the relatively flat coastal areas round Aberdeen (the Grampian region) and includes the Inner Hebrides. So the Highlands approximate to the present *Highland region and the northern part of *Strathclyde.
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The dramatic landscape for which the area is famous has made it relatively hard for hostile outsiders to penetrate (unlike the *Lowlands) and has contributed to the sense of self-contained independence underlying many of the local characteristics – *clan loyalty, the survival of a certain amount of *Gaelic, and a strongly Scottish identity expressed in *Highland dress and *Highland games. Together with all this has gone a profound distrust of England, seen in the traditional *Jacobite sympathies of the region.
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