Talk:Scarp, Scotland

The Scarp Parliament
I think the comments on the Scarp 'parliament' may be dubious. No evidence is cited to show that the parliament met every day. It was more likely that it met as necessary to organise communal tasks such as collecting the sheep. The need for collective action may have been frequent, but it is unlikely that it occurred daily. It is worth remembering that many of the communal tasks would have been dependent on the weather, sea conditions and state of the tide. Because of this, and despite a willingness to get started, work might often have been delayed. It seems to me to be gratuitous and sexist to suggest that that the men hung about idly while the women got on with the work. The women of Scarp were mostly employed hand-spinning wool for the Harris Tweed industry, work that was not weather dependent to the same extent as the male occupations, listed in the 1911 census mostly as crofters and/or fishermen. It is unlikely that anyone, whatever their gender, would have been able to opt out of making a full contribution of work in what was clearly a precarious economy.--Joneau (talk) 19:34, 27 July 2013 (UTC)


 * You raise a good point. I can see no sign of a reference to this parliament in Haswell-Smith, Murray (1966) or Thompson (1968) and nor are there any ghits. I will remove this for the time being and ask around for some information. Ben   Mac  Dui  08:10, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

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