Episode 80 - St Kilda, Isolation and Religion - Part 1 Utopia?mp3

Doubts Aloud Podcast

Show Notes
Ed shares from his longstanding interest in the remote isolated Scottish island of St Kilda and its amazing community that survived for 1000s of years up to 1930. In part 1 we cover its geography, community structure and social conditions, and then its religious history finishing around 1700 which was when outsiders began worrying about their souls. How did a small isolated community work in beliefs, morals and even economic arrangements?
Links:
Do a google-images on “St Kilda Scotland”
That key book:
Tom Steel, The life and death of St Kilda, 1975, Fontana.
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