Keith Branigan, BA, PhD, FSA, is a professor of archaeology at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, England. He was appoined the first Chair of Archaeology at Sheffield in 1976. Keith has researched and published extensively in the prehistory of the Aegean and Roman England. He participated in a fifteen year project studying the Isle of Barra (Scotland) which resulted in several books and journal publications. The project culminated with the publication of "From Clan to Clearance: History and Archaeology on the Isle of Barra, c.850-1850" for which Keith was the primary author.
Canadian historian J. M. Bumstead was member of the History Department at the University of Manitoba. He has published several books and articles on a variety of topics, including Prince Edward Island history.
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The fonds contains Keith Branigan's book "From Clan to Clearance: History and Archaeology on the Isle of Barra, c. 850-1850 AD". The work is the result of over fifteen years of historical and archaeological research into the history of Barra, Scotland, and its people. The author draws upon field surveys, excavations, and documentary research from the United Kingdom and Canada. A catalogue of named emigrants from the Isle of Barra to British North America (1772-1851) also appears at the end of the volume. The fonds also includes a computer disk containing the emigrant catalogue in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) and in Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice spreadsheets.
The book and computer disk were donated to the Public Archives and Records Office by Keith Branigan in March 2005.
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