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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Distillery layoffs send shudders across remote scottish island | History Defined

Distiller Thomas McRae works at the Isle of Harris Distillery in Tarbert, on Harris, Scotland, which has just announced layoffs sparking fears more young people will be forced to leave the remote island in search of work (Credit: AFP)

When Scotland's windswept Isle of Harris welcomed its first commercial distillery a decade ago, it was about more than just whisky.

Since 2015 the Harris Distillery has enabled dozens of young locals to stay and work on the sparsely inhabited island off the west coast of Scotland, which has endured years of population decline as islanders move away in search of job opportunities on the mainland.

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